When Eddie Guerriero and Mitch Deprey began taping their neighbors’ drunken fights in 1987, they had no idea the tapes would become a cult phenomenon. But they did. Matthew Bate’s documentary Shut Up, Little Man! An Audio Misadventure (opening today at the Denver FilmCenter/Colfax) chronicles the spread of the phenomenon,…
When we chatted with Keith Garcia, Denver FilmCenter’s Programming Manager, prior to last week’s showing of I Am Nancy, he told us a secret: Garcia promised that in honor of the film’s star, Heather Langenkamp — who came out to Denver for the screening to talk about her role as…
Bonny Lhotka & Norman Epp. This duet, the full title of which is Horizons: Bonny Lhotka & Norman Epp, brings together the internationally known Boulder-based digital artist with an up-and-coming Denver sculptor. Though to a great extent their individual bodies of works have decidedly different aims — Lhotka is technically…
I believe it was Chekhov who said that if you drive a wood chipper into the forest where dumb coeds are partying in the vicinity of suspicious hillbillies, that chipper must be used on human flesh. And so it is, though the intentions are decidedly reversed in Tucker & Dale…
One single scene captures the tricky tonal balance of Jonathan Levine’s cancer comedy 50/50. Adam, a straight-edge radio producer played by Joseph Gordon-Levitt, has just finished his first round of chemotherapy. It was tough, but the kindly gents IV’d next to him (Philip Baker Hall and Matt Frewer) made it…
While doing science last week, probably in an attempt to fit more tools into their army’s knives, the Swiss broke the Universe. They recorded Neutrinos, a shape-shifting subatomic particle known for sounding like an awesome breakfast cereal, moving faster than light. Now their hills are alive with the sound of…
One of the horror-film genre’s most iconic heroines, Heather Langenkamp (who played Nancy Thompson in the Nightmare on Elm Street series) kicked Freddy Kreuger’s ass not once, but three times. We spoke with the actor, who is in town for Denver Film Society’s The Watching Hour: An Evening With Heather…
The first ever Denver Silent Film Festival kicks off tonight at the King Center on the Auraria Campus. Silent films have long been out of style, unless you count muting a video on YouTube, which is why we decided to catch up with festival coordinator and presenter (and teacher and…
Tsui Hark’s visually sumptuous Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame is a strong comeback for the veteran Hong Kong wuxia-maker. Magnificent and cheesy, the latest and most proudly absurd of Chinese historical spectaculars, Detective Dee is a cinematic comic book for people who are sick of the…
At the time of this writing, the Oakland Athletics sit at a distant third in the American League West, eighteen games behind the Texas Rangers managed by Ron Washington, once the first-base coach under A’s wonderboy Billy Beane. The A’s have not had a winning season since making the playoffs…
John Sayles’s Amigo aspires to educate more than entertain, but it’s no less engrossing for that. Torn from the pages of history, if not those of Sayles’s recently published, epic turn-of-the-twentieth-century novel A Moment in the Sun, the movie harks back to America’s first real imperial adventure: the bloody pacification…
Drive, the film by Nicolas Winding Refn starring Ryan Gosling as a getaway driver so smooth you start to think he has some form of learning disability, is a perfect cinematic representation of “cool.” (Read our review of Drive) It oozes that shit, both in its underbelly of tone and…
Angela Larson and Michaele Keyes. The front space at Spark is usually subdivided into two rooms, but for the current pairing, the walls have been pushed back, and the combined area functions as a single gallery. Still, the two shows on display, Angela Larson: Vanishing and Michaele Keyes: Pursuing Motion,…
It’s been 40 years since the original Straw Dogs starring Dustin Hoffman and Susan George was released, and in the updated version being released tonight, rural England has been replaced with the South, giving the whole thing a red state vs. blue state feel from the start. It’s also kind…
Angela Larson and Michaele Keyes. The front space at Spark is usually subdivided into two rooms, but for the current pairing, the walls have been pushed back, and the combined area functions as a single gallery. Still, the two shows on display, Angela Larson: Vanishing and Michaele Keyes: Pursuing Motion,…
Baroquely sinister and grotesquely funny, the latest overstimulated bout of dark comic mayhem from writer-director Álex de la Iglesia (Common Wealth, The Day of the Beast), The Last Circus is a stunning funhouse-mirror allegory of Franco-era Spain that makes Pan’s Labyrinth look like Sesame Street. In the middle of the…
As stripped down and propulsive as its robotic title, Drive is the most “American” movie yet by Danish genre director Nicolas Winding Refn. The film, for which Refn was named Best Director last May in Cannes, is a sleek, tense piece of work that, as a vehicle for Ryan Gosling,…
What does it take to become the next big tech thing? Eleven start-ups will enter TechStars’ first New York City start-up incubator to find out if they have the smarts, the will and the ability to get cash in order to become the next high-tech sensation. TechStars, the Boulder-based technology…
Only an asshole gets killed for a car (the Repo Code). The International Film Series at the University of Colorado in Boulder will show a series of films by director Alex Cox over the next few weeks; Cox teaches screenwriting and film production at the school. And while all of…
What I don’t know: why these movies keep getting made. I Don’t Know How She Does It is based on Allison Pearson’s 2002 diaristic, comic bestseller and directed by Douglas McGrath. But its real auteur is screenwriter Aline Brosh McKenna, scripter of wan workplace romantic comedies such as the limp…
With another new television season almost upon us, it’s also another season missing AMC’s Mad Men. The ’60s-era period drama, which has been on hiatus since October of last year due to negotiations between the network and creator Matthew Weiner, is now finally promising a return in March 2012. But…
The headline potential is almost too good to be true: A movie called The Worst Movie EVER! hauls in the worst opening-weekend box office ever, selling exactly one ticket for a total gross of $11. And yet it is true, and it happened to Glenn Berggoetz, a Metro State professor…
