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Blink! A young curatorial assistant at the Denver Art Museum, Jill Desmond, has stepped up to the big time by putting together an over-the-top exhibit of electronic and mechanical art titled Blink! Light, Sound and the Moving Image. Beginning on the first level of the Hamilton and taking over the…

Rubber documents one tire’s bloody journey

Written and directed by Quentin Dupieux, Rubber follows the exploits of a tire (listed in the credits as “Robert”) that figures out how to control its own motion and then rolls through the desert on a killing spree, blowing shit up with its mind. Rubber’s methods of address make it…

Prom is a formal disaster

“This one perfect moment.” “That soul-crushing mistress.” “Our forever night.” These and other understated definitions are obsessively applied to a certain dreaded/anticipated ritual throughout Prom, a timely pop product set in a suburban high school during the last weeks before summer break and destined for the immortality of Vitamin C’s…

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Blink! A young curatorial assistant at the Denver Art Museum, Jill Desmond, has stepped up to the big time by putting together an over-the-top exhibit of electronic and mechanical art titled Blink!: Light, Sound and the Moving Image. Beginning on the first level of the Hamilton and taking over the…

Putty Hill surveys the effects of an overdose on a working-class family

Sharing the narrative opacity and marginal milieu of Hamilton, its 2006 predecessor, Putty Hill, the assured feature-length followup from Matt Porterfield, surveys the effects of a young man’s overdose death on his extended working-class family. And like the militantly decentralized storytelling that Porterfield favors, their grief surfaces in flashes but…

Scream 4 is this week’s most ridiculous trailer

It’s been fifteen years since Scream came along and changed the whole horror movie paradigm with its self-awareness, satirizing the cliches of a genre then in the throes of death by indifference and employing them as plot devices, in the process pretty much single-handedly breathing life back into it. It…

Director Michael Sládek gets candid about Con Artist

Though it’s largely been forgotten in the annals of crack-pottery and snake-oil salesmanship, the story of Mark Kostabi is one of the art world’s weirdest and most head-slappingly dumb. A darling of the high-rolling ’80s New York scene, Kostabi and his rise to fame and riches on the backs of…

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Mi Linda Soledad. This large exhibit at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center zeroes in on the career of one of Colorado’s most important abstract painters, Emilio Lobato. The show’s title, which means “My Beautiful Solitude,” refers both to Lobato’s life growing up in the San Luis Valley and to…

Potiche is a surprisingly cogent feminist parable

The opening title card of François Ozon’s 1977-set Potiche seems to take design inspiration from the exploitation films of that period — a sneaky-smart way of nodding to one of this pastel-colored political farce’s key topics, if not its stylistic mode. As Suzanne, Catherine Deneuve plays the title role, which…

The Conspirator is barely worth the extra credit

Set in the months after Lee’s surrender at Appomattox, The Conspirator follows the consequences of the fatal shot at Ford’s Theater — specifically, the trial of Mary Surratt, Catholic, 42, and the owner of a Washington, D.C., boardinghouse, who was presented before a military tribunal as the den mother in…

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Emilio Lobato and Sangeeta Reddy. Mixed-media artist and painter Emilio Lobato is surely near the top of anyone’s list of abstract artists in the region. His work relates well to that of the late Dale Chisman, as both artists studied with Mary Chenoweth at Colorado College. His latest creations, many…

The Elephant in the Living Room lands at the Oriental Theater

Laws governing the keeping of exotic animals as pets vary from state to state in this country — and some states have no restrictions whatsoever, which means there’s a vibrant subculture of raising some of the most dangerous animals in the world as common household pets. That’s the premise behind…

Your Highness is a dirty-joke blooper reel set in EverQuest land

Your Highness plays like a dirty-joke blooper reel made by the cast of a junky sword-and-sorcery epic, streaked with carelessly contemporary-sounding blue humor, blunt profanity replacing the naughty-naughty, tankard-sloshing, heaving-bosom ribaldry that goes with the period setting. The scene: a generic medieval realm from an EverQuest or Forgotten Realms module…

Geeks Who Drink’s Christopher Short makes good on Jeopardy! tomorrow night

For proof that a lifelong obsession with trivia will win you literally tens of dollars and a modest measure of short-lived semi-fame, look no further than Jeopardy! tomorrow night, when Geeks Who Drink editor Christopher Short will throw down in representation of Denver’s community of nerds with an impressive ability…