The Aspen Shortsfest won’t end until April 10, but the Denver Film Society just announced that the inaugural RSC Shorts Fest will debut at the Sie FilmCenter in May. It’s the first foray into curated film programming by the DFS’s Reel Social Club, which caters to young professionals interested not just…
Superhero fans may not know stunt coordinator Philip J Silvera’s name, but they do know his work. Silvera’s choreography turned heads in such recent comic-book adaptations as the Arkham Knight and Arkham Origins Batman video games, the record-breaking Deadpool film and Netflix’s Daredevil. Silvera’s imaginative, brutal work on Daredevil’s first…
Like the Juggernaut or St. Patrick’s Day drunks, nothing can stop the hundreds of hours of filmed superhero junk that hits our faceholes each year. But rest easy, true believer! Once in a while, the onslaught can still offer surprise and pleasure. A shiver of both hit me minutes into…
Have you ever considered the fact that, in 1951, Hank Williams actually wrote “Hey Good Lookin'”? That, for the first 175 years years of American history, those words and that melody weren’t already part of our shared heritage? Williams didn’t just pluck it out of the air, of course. Cole…
Since the late ’80s, husband-and-wife artists Tracy Felix and Sushe Felix, who share Land Rhythms at William Havu Gallery, have followed different, if thoroughly intertwined, aesthetic paths. For many years, they’ve both been interested in conveying the Western landscape in non-traditional ways, though their individual works are clearly distinct. Tracy’s…
The Lantern Fest will take off from Denver (or the Colorado National Speedway in Dacano, which is close enough) for the first time on April 23. The event is so hot it sold out fast, but people still have burning questions about how it will all go down. Here are answers to ten…
For its annual spring white party last weekend, the Fantastic Hosts transformed the Exdo Event Center into a Garden of Earthly Delights, inspired by the painting by Hieronymus Bosch and a Burning Man aesthetic. Stroll through the resulting wonderland with photographer Brandon Marshall. Now take a wander through the…
Vail may sing a siren call to skiers and snowboarders, but this week the mountain town will be humming a different tune as the Vail Film Festival returns on Thursday, April 7. The four-day fest, which is celebrating its thirteenth year, will screen over sixty films — narrative, documentary and…
A she-wolf of Wall Street with a spiky ginger Suze Orman shag, Michelle Darnell, the anti-heroine of fitfully funny The Boss, is the latest of the Rabelaisian wonders played by Melissa McCarthy. The actress specializes in characters with indestructible bravado, no matter where they stand on the socioeconomic ladder; Michelle,…
Richard Linklater’s Everybody Wants Some!! is being billed as a “spiritual sequel” to his 1993 high school stoner classic Dazed and Confused, but in some key ways it feels closer to his animated 2001 philosophy bull session Waking Life — a freewheeling grab bag of ideas, ruminations and loose ends…
Jean-Marc Vallée’s Demolition presents an interesting experiment: What if you told a story of tragedy but withheld all the tenderness and emotion from it, so that you were left — at least until the very end — with just literal and figurative wreckage, disconnected fragments seeking to be put back…
A fractured film about a fractured family, Louder Than Bombs takes a potentially tired premise and reshapes it before our eyes. It opens on a newborn’s tiny hand helplessly clinging to a father’s finger, and ends with a different father watching his two sons sleep. In between is a story…
Reading Color: Art Forum 1965-2015, a must-see exhibit at Gildar Gallery, features recent conceptual abstractions by emerging Denver artist Andrew Jensotter. Gallery director Adam Gildar first saw his work at Vertigo; this is Jensotter’s second solo at Gildar. On one level, the large square panels that make up the show function as classic…
One of the great things about living in a place like Denver for much of your life is that you wind up with friendships that span twenty or thirty years by the time you’re my age. And sometimes, those friends’ lives are parallel and you find yourself in similar places…
One thing’s for certain — zombies have staying power in Denver, where the undead are much more than a passing fad. the Walker Stalker Con came to town this past weekend, bringing cast members from The Walking Dead, Z Nation and more, as well as Freddie Krueger himself — actor Robert…
#87: Tya Anthony A photographer first, Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design grad Tya Anthony widens the boundaries of her craft through adventures in mixed-media collage, installation and performance with cultural roots, while also focusing on faces and social movements through portraiture and documentation. What’s on Tya Anthony’s horizon?…
Cheesman Park has been a fancy-pants part of Denver for years…at least since it stopped being Mt. Prospect Hill Cemetery, when the parcels of land available here were understandably much smaller, and far less sought-after. By early in the twentieth century, though, the cemetery had mostly been moved, and Cheesman…
If you’re a fan of the sitcom The Middle, you’ll remember the wonderful episode in which the family’s eccentric youngest son, Brick, starts a font blog. “If you can talk about fonts, you can talk to anyone,” he comments to his father. Brick acquires one reader, blogs for a few…
Ritualcravt holds more sparkly goodness than you’d expect to find inside one store — unless it happens to be an eco-craft store, where every gem, bone, fur, nest, petal and potion is the real deal, not some fake geode, and all chosen with care by owner Missy Rhysing, who opened the…
You can find art all over town — not just on gallery walls. In this series, we looking at some of the local artists who serve up their work in coffeehouses and other non-gallery businesses around town. Bonnie Gregory grew up outside of Philadelphia, in “Mennonite country,” surrounded by lots…
Once spring has sprung in the Mile High City, you might want to head outside — but fight that urge. Because in April, you’ll want to get into the cool darkness of one of your favorite movie theaters and see a film or three. If you must spend time outdoors,…
Denver’s annual 4/20 holiday is coming right up, so you might want to start saving your green for the green. Fortunately, this week has plenty of free entertainment options that should keep you laughing and thinking. Keep reading to see our three favorites, and check out the Westword calendar for more…
