Nasty, brutish and not short enough, Ben Wheatley’s Free Fire has a simple — and ultimately simpleminded — premise: to protract what would normally be a brief shoot-out scene to the majority of the movie’s 90-minute running time. On the surface, this reductio ad absurdum has a kind of pleasing…
Sondra Blanchard, the artistic director of the Public Works Theatre Company was visiting the Montreal Biodome, when she met a friendly puffin. That encounter served as the inspiration for her new play, Flight of Fancy, a gentle conversation starter about ecological collapse and mass extinction.
Lauren Gunderson’s Silent Sky deals with an important topic — the ignored contributions of women scientists — but it feels more like a young-adult novel than a living dramatic work.
HBO’s acid-bathed Beltway satire Veep didn’t exactly predict our absurd political reality. But it did come close enough that revisiting past seasons is like watching footage of a train wreck run backwards in slow motion. The episode called “C**tgate” brought a vaginal euphemism into a presidential election. “Election Night” saw…
It’s fitting that one of the great films about jazz centers on the re-creation of a moment. Kasper Collin’s exquisitely haunted meditation I Called Him Morgan, about the life and untimely death of hard bop trumpeter Lee Morgan, employs all the techniques you would expect from a documentary study of…
“Rob has this ridiculous beard and it’s such great, self-effacing, wonderful work he’s doing,” James Gray says about his film recounting the life of a British explorer who disappeared while pursuing his lifelong obsession with a mythical city in the Amazon.
“I’ve been trained for this.” Those words — or some variation — come up several times throughout James Gray’s The Lost City of Z, and they serve as one key to this strange, sprawling, majestic film. In adapting the 2009 nonfiction book about the search for a fabled city in…
Colorado’s biggest unofficial holiday is just a few days away, but there are plenty of things to do in Denver both before and after Civic Center Park gets lit. Here are the 21 best events on the calendar between April 18 and April 24, 2017.
Frozen fans, delight! The Broadway musical Frozen, based on the Disney cartoon, will be staged in Denver August 17-October 1, and the producers have just announced the principal cast.
History repeats itself. So does “famous artist” Phil Bender’s art. Denver’s artists are getting priced out of the city, again. And when Pirate: Contemporary Art goes to Lakewood, Bender and his multiplying art will go, too.
I’ve been trying to moderate my immediate reaction to Ayad Akhtar’s Disgraced: that it’s a nasty, mean-spirited, dangerous and anti-Muslim piece of work, and I have no idea why a Pulitzer committee would have awarded it the 2013 prize for drama. But I can’t. The play falls into the general…
Tara Rynders leads a double life as a registered nurse and a dancer, but the opposing disciplines are more alike than you’d think, at least in Rynders’s creative universe.
To conclude its 46th season, Cleo Parker Robinson Dance will perform excerpts from Porgy and Bess and Sergei Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet.
Painter Peter Illig’s retro sensibility and deep affinity for all things mid-century modern drive his work, which combines realistically rendered found snapshots brimming with emotional life and an unsettled state of near-nostalgia for the lost values of a vanished era.
There’s always plenty to do in Denver, but these five free events really capture the spirit of Colorado, April 17-20, 2017.
We spotted University of Denver student Allie Phocas at 303 Magazine’s Denver Fashion Weekend, channeling 1990s film icon Cher Horowitz. Phocas was born in Philadelphia and spent time in New York, but grew up in Jackson, Wyoming; she’ll apply for medical school in June and currently volunteers at Planned Parenthood. We stopped to chat with Phocas about what inspires her look, where she shops and what she thought of the show.
First things first. The new Mystery Science Theater 3000, that basic-cable and UHF puppet show that was above all else a treatise about what it was like to grow up on basic cable and UHF, is a cheery, companionable continuation, an almost business-as-usual new season Kickstarted and Netflixed that Febreezes…
Travel can be rough for vegans hellbent on sticking to their plant-based diet. But Dave Paco is here to help.
Velorama won’t hit Colorado until August 11, but it’s already on a roll. The event — a three-day festival that will fill RiNo with live music, food trucks, a bike expo, the Drink Rino Beer Garden and, yes, plenty of pro bike racers —- has already sold out of $25 early-bird tickets for all three days. But it’s not too late to get a deal.
The female perspectives represented by each of these Denver artists are not delicate nor flimsy but supremely badass; their expression is powerful, non-gendered, non-liner and not-of-this-world.
This weekend is filled with events for every taste. We’re petting farm animals, getting down to ukulele sounds, meeting famous families, dressing up and so much more.
Extra Vitamins is Julia Belamarich and Kyle Warfield, life partners whose interest in zine-making and playful graphic design morphed into a wearable-art business brimming with a combined sense of style and activism.
