After nearly a decade of bringing bicycle erotica to big screens around the world, Bike Smut is pedaling its final tour through Denver this weekend. For the last nine years, a community of cyclists and sex-positive individuals have consistently submitted short erotic films to be shown at Bike Smut’s live…
Director Olympia Stone has an artist’s eye, and she uses it to illuminate the life of art. The newest of her series of documentary films on the creative process comes to the Denver Film Festival this weekend. Curious Worlds: The Art & Imagination of David Beck will screen three times…
Again this year, Denver Film Festival artistic director Brit Withey is offering his must-see picks for each day of the fest — including many flicks that movie lovers might otherwise miss amid the flood of silver-screen goodies. Today he spotlights selections for November 6 (Once Upon a Crime: The Borelli-Davis Conspiracy),…
November is here and while the temperature is dropping, the fashion scene in Denver is heating up. This month is filled with fashion shows, trunk shows, galas and fundraisers, all designed to get you stylish just in time for the holidays around the corner. Here are ten of the best…
Keystone Resort opens today when the first chair heads up the mountain at 9 a.m. While waiting for that first chair, Keystone will be handing out warm donut holes from resort pastry chef Ned Archibald, as well as hot chocolate and coffee at the base of the River Run Gondola. There…
Hopefully, everyone has recovered and repented from that crazy Halloween last weekend. There’s still some spooky spirit to go around this weekend, though, if you didn’t get your fill, as well as beer to drink and dances to dance. For a full lineup of events, check out the Westword calendar…
The 38th edition of the Denver Film Festival started off quietly — and that wasn’t necessarily a bad thing. The opening night festivities were back at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House after taking place at the Buell Theatre last year, and while the red carpet was in place outside the…
My mother calls it “The Boulevard.” That’s one of many small-town terms she uses to describe the city in which she grew up and raised me. My mom also often says she’s going “up the hill,” which can mean any direction and any destination. (I detailed her numerous local yokel…
As usual, A-Bay was one of the first two ski resorts to open this year, tying Loveland in the race to crank up the chairlifts on October 29. Only a few runs are open at the moment, but that will change soon as the snow falls and snowmaking begins. You…
Again this year, Denver Film Festival artistic director Brit Withey is offering his must-see picks for each day of the fest — including many flicks that movie lovers might otherwise miss amid the flood of silver-screen goodies. Today, he spotlights his pick for Thursday, November 5: Rams. Rams Directed by Grímur Hákonarson…
It’s been a long time since Ash strapped a chainsaw onto the spot where his missing hand should be, slung a shotgun over his shoulder and went hard on some Deadites. Too goddamn long. As great as it was, Army of Darkness came out more than twenty years ago —…
Tom McCarthy’s Spotlight, opening November 6 in local theaters, details how the Boston Globe uncovered the Catholic Church’s child molestation scandal in 2002. The newspaper’s work won major awards, and the film is now being prepped for Oscar reception, getting talked up almost everywhere as a serious film. (But then, so was…
Hou Hsiao-hsien’s The Assassin is the Taiwanese director’s first foray into the martial-arts genre. It may also be his most resplendent film yet: Watching it is like floating along on a sumptuous gold-and-lacquer cloud. Hou favorite Shu Qi (who also starred in Millennium Mambo and Three Times) plays Nie Yinniang,…
Jafar Panahi looks happier than he has in a while — and he’s getting out. That’s encouraging, and it doesn’t mean that his latest act of defiance, the film Taxi, isn’t bold. Once again creating cinema in spite of Iran’s twenty-year edict forbidding him to do so, this most daring…
Political drama has long been shaped by what we can call the conversion narrative. In a play like One Third of a Nation, one of the Living Newspaper extravaganzas mounted with New Deal funding by the Federal Theatre Project, an everyman Joe you just gotta root for tries to live…
Colorado ski areas got pounded with as much as twenty inches of early-season snow in late October, just as we were going to press with the Edge, our annual guide to Colorado’s ski resorts — and Loveland was the first to announce an opening date — October 29. You can find…
The three solos currently on display at Robischon Gallery share a creepy yet elegant mood — like the feeling of walking through a decrepit mansion — and it strikes me that the atmosphere is a perfect fit for this time of year. Filling the initial set of galleries is Kahn…
This week an old Broadway favorite is returning to the Buell, while Denver’s Wonderbound rolls out a new work at the Mizel Center’s JAAMM Fest. And in celebration of Denver Arts Week, Chance to Dance invites the public to check out what’s coming out of dance studios around town. Disney’s…
Again this year, Denver Film Festival artistic director Brit Withey is offering his must-see picks for each day of the fest — including many flicks that movie lovers might otherwise miss amid the flood of silver-screen goodies. Today he spotlights the opening night feature, Anomalisa, and offers a preview of the…
The Oscar-winning screenwriter whose exploits are the subject of the upcoming biopic Trumbo, opening November 6 across the region, would be the first to snort at the thought of his life becoming Hollywood fodder. Then he would take the money and write the script himself. In recent years, Dalton Trumbo…
In its very first scene, Aziz Ansari’s new Netflix series, Master of None, presents something never before seen on TV: an Asian-American male romantic lead at the center of his own series. Granted, that scene is hardly sexy: A broken condom puts the brakes on a bar hook-up between Dev…
The Muppets doesn’t work, exactly, but I’m still watching. As a relative outsider to the 60-year Muppets franchise, I’ve long suspected that early imprinting is the key to loving Jim Henson’s gaudy, unblinking rags. I’ve never felt a particular need to watch pieces of felt tell Borscht Belt–style jokes, and…
