With movie-history viewing choices spawning like mold in a damp room, we can easily see the things we didn’t even know we’d never seen. For me that includes Takashi Miike’s Black Society Trilogy (Arrow Video), a trio of quick, down-and-dirty crime-gang pulp rockets (1995-99) that established Miike as Japan’s fin-de-siècle…
Pop quiz. What comic-book adaptation centers on a white man orphaned by tragedy but blessed with great wealth who travels to an Asian country, only to return to America as a fearsome hero of amazing skill? That’s a trick question, of course: There are too many to count. In Batman…
The drag world is still shook from the news that for its ninth season, RuPaul’s Drag Race will leave its Monday-night perch and land on Friday night – not to mention hopping networks from gay pioneer Logo to music mainstay VH1. Producers of the Ultimate Queen Competition at Tracks quickly decided to follow suit; when their highly anticipated local drag battle royale premieres this season, it will be on Friday, March 24.
Chicago’s Ballet 5:8 performed in Denver last season for the first time, and will enchant audiences here again this month with The Stor(ies) of You and Me. Showcasing five pieces choreographed by Ballet 5:8 Artistic Director Julianna Slager and former Houston Ballet dancer Caleb Mitchell, the performance explores various perspectives on…
Denver Arts and Venues and Meow Wolf, the Santa Fe-based arts organization that’s considering opening a spot in Denver, just announced a partnership that calls for Arts and Venues to contribute $20,000 to a fund that will be used to help Denver’s DIY and alternative spaces..
The best place to make memories is in the car. That’s why we have some events a little further out this weekend. From birds to dead guys and cartoons to collages, there’s a little something for everyone to do over the next few days. Check out the Westword calendar for…
On International Women’s Day, the Denver Film Society announced the full schedule for its upcoming Women + Film Festival, which will take place April 4-9 at the Sie FilmCenter. For the festival’s seventh iteration, the program boasts sixteen features and six short films that run the gamut of narrative and…
When Kate T. Parker started shooting photos of her two daughters, both tomboys, she noticed that her favorite pictures were those in which her children were totally themselves — not posing and primping as girls are too often taught to do. She started shooting other girls, and soon her images…
We’ve already given you some MoP 2017 viewing pointers in our must-see list of photography shows popping up all over the metro area, but a quick check-in at the MoP website reveals a much wider scope of what seems like an endless stream of exhibitions. Never fear: Now, we’ve broken…
Last year, Bruce Springsteen stopped by the Tattered Cover; this year, it’s John Oates of Hall and Oates, who will be reading from his memoir, Change of Seasons. The book takes a look at the duo’s struggle to snag an Atlantic Records recording contract and Oates’s life in the tumultuous…
Belly Bliss — Denver’s one-stop center for all things mom — launched a sister studio last month at Stapleton’s hip Stanley Marketplace. Belly Bliss owner Lauren Williams has been busy celebrating the grand opening of her new collective, but we tracked her down to get the scoop on this momtrepreneur’s latest endeavor.
Don’t hold it against Martin Zandvliet’s land-mine drama that its English title is the dopiest movie-title pun since John Singleton’s Poetic Justice. That film concerned a poet named Justice; Land of Mine a land of mines. Called Under Sandet in the original Danish — roughly Under the Sand — Zandvliet’s…
Every Western that gets made feels like it could be the last one, and yet the genre refuses to ride off into the sunset. Martin Koolhoven’s Brimstone doesn’t breathe new life into the oater, but the Dutch writer/director has clearly studied the gunslingers of yore. His film strives for a…
One of the early standouts of Denver’s Month of Photography is Presence: Reflections on the Middle East, at the Center for Visual Art, Metropolitan State University of Denver’s off-campus exhibition space in the Art District on Santa Fe. The show comprises more than sixty works by a dozen artists, all natives of Muslim-majority countries. Most of these artists no longer live in their homelands, though, and have immigrated to the United States or Canada.
The Denver comedy community is still coming to grips with the loss of local comedian, lawyer, father and friend Frank Schuchat, who passed away on Tuesday, February 28. The CU Boulder and Georgetown-educated founder of Schuchat International Law Firm served as a judicial law clerk on the D.C. Court of…
Denver Center for the Performing Arts has seen a lot of turnover in recent years, but one guiding force has been board chairman Daniel Ritchie. Today, March 7, the organization announced he will be replaced in that role by Martin Semple, an attorney who has specialized in employment law —…
“A cat meowing at your feet, looking up at you, is life smiling at you,” says one of the interviewees in Kedi, and who am I to argue? Ceyda Torun’s daydream-like documentary explores a subject near and dear to my heart: the street cats of Istanbul, those countless, fearless denizens…
In Staying Vertical, as in nearly all of French filmmaker Alain Guiraudie’s tonically unorthodox work, the emphasis is on the abundant possibility of pairings and practices when people get horizontal. Filled with quite literal chubby-chasing, Guiraudie’s sexually anarchic romp The King of Escape (2009), for example, centers on a middle-aged…
A picture is worth a thousand likes. Here are the twenty best Instagrammers in Colorado right now…
Time to ditch the red hearts and Cupid arrows: We are officially into St. Patrick’s Day territory. Celebrate the annual drunkfest — er, we mean, religious holiday? — at the annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade on Saturday, March 11. It’s just one of the many offerings we have in this week’s 21…
Douglas Carter Beane’s The Nance, now seeing its regional premiere at Edge Theater, is a play about burlesque in 1930s New York; it’s a fascinating slice of history, and an equally fascinating character study.
For a movie in which a major character’s death is discovered when a giant lizard-monster vomits out his skull, Kong: Skull Island is a surprisingly breezy affair. It’s not so much that the characters or situations are particularly lighthearted. The film offers up plenty of wartime atmosphere and grim backstory,…
