The excruciating wait for trendy, affordable goods from major Swedish retailers will come to an end this year when both H&M and IKEA finally come to Denver pretty much simultaneously — meaning you will soon be feasibly able to clothe, surround and even feed yourself with all things trendy and…
A low-life comedy in registers of Norse pallor and reticence, A Somewhat Gentle Man begins with ex-thug Ulrik (Stellan Skarsgård) paroled from a twelve-year sentence for murder. Returning to the seedy milieu he left behind on the outskirts of an unnamed city, Ulrik is a watchful, shy presence in every…
This week’s big movie can be found on TV. Arch-independent filmmaker Todd Haynes makes a characteristically sidelong move toward the mainstream with his five-part miniseries Mildred Pierce, which starts this Sunday on HBO. Haynes, the most academic yet mass-culture-minded of U.S. indie directors, began his career in the late Reagan…
Oh gee, really? Do we have to open episode twelve by continuing the Sammi and Ronnie blowout from last week? At this point, the relationship toxicity isn’t even remotely entertaining–in fact, we kind of wish it would all implode on itself again and make them both disappear. But instead, we’ll…
A couple weeks ago, we told you about Hulu’s bracket to determine the best show on television. On opening day of the actual March Madness, the contest is down to eight and the results are a little surprising: Not exactly populist, not exactly critical consensus. We originally thought this was…
The Catch-22 of UFO naysaying is that UFOs are the products of highly sophisticated races, built expressly so that bumbling simpletons like you and I see a commercial airline or a speck of dust on a camera. Fortunately, YouTube user magnetflipper isn’t fooled. He or she has been filming aliens…
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 romanticized commitment phobia that keeps Judd Apatow in gilt-fixtured man caves is brought down to earth (or Park Slope, anyway) in this inventive indie thriller from Murderball co-director Dana Adam Shapiro. Monogamy follows thirty-something Brooklynite Theo (Chris Messina) as he simultaneously slogs through his day job as a wedding…
Paul, it should be noted up front, is not the third installment in the so-called Blood and Ice Cream Trilogy featuring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, though there are indeed servings of both. Note the one key missing element: Edgar Wright, who directed and co-wrote with Pegg both the 2004…
A gleeful celebration of non-stop doping, Limitless offers up a dim Better Living Through Chemistry fantasy that refuses to rain on its own pill-popping parade. With long, disheveled locks and matching facial scruff, novelist Eddie (Bradley Cooper) struggles with writer’s block until he runs into his ex-brother-in-law, Vernon (Johnny Whitworth)…
By our informal count, there are about forty explosions in the two-minute trailer for Battle: Los Angles — which breaks down to about one explosion every three seconds. That number gets even more impressive when you take into account that the explosions don’t even really get started until about one…
My, how time flies. We can’t believe we’re already into the eleventh episode Jersey Shore, but it’s true. Don’t worry, if you missed the first ten, there was lots of tanning, fighting, clubbing, gyming and drunking. Oh, and fighting. We open this particular day to a virtually empty house–the ladies…
Facebook dove into the movie streaming arena with The Dark Knight yesterday and people flipped out: Netflix’s stock, in particular, took a significant dive. But what evidence do we have that this will actually work on a large scale?…
Tonight, The Denver Public Library’s Rare and Rarely Seen Hitchcock series comes to a close with a screening of Marnie. One of the director’s final films, the movie deals with a psychologically damaged union between characters played by Sean Connery and Tippi Hedren. Their strange marriage reaches an emotional breaking…
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…
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…
As aficionados of Puppy Bowl can attest, attaching stories to the comings and goings of animals is surefire entertainment. Veteran nature filmmakers Dereck and Beverly Joubert pitch their documentary, The Last Lions, as a single-mother weepie-thriller about a lioness and her cubs with an impassioned psychological commentary, majestically intoned by…
If Jane Eyre is not the greatest of the Great Books with a permanent position on required-reading lists, it may be the most frequently filmed: At least ten cinematic versions of the story have been made, dating back to the dawn of the silent era — more, if you count…
Cheerfully diffident, garrulous yet uninflected, blithely self-absorbed, the mumblecore brand proliferates: Last year’s star vehicles Greenberg and Cyrus introduced the concept of mega-mumble. The low-budget musical Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench pioneered mumble-chord; Tiny Furniture was part psycho-drumble, part sit-cumble. Premiering with the latter at last spring’s South…
In a way, there’s nothing sadder than obsolescence, a thing no longer useful left to fall into misuse and disrepair — and there’s maybe no better example of that than the pay phone. That’s why, for the past couple of weeks, we’ve been highlighting one Sad Payphone of the Week,…
Given the rigid tropes that govern pretty much all high-budget movies about high school, it’s sometimes hard to believe that the people who write and direct them ever actually went to high school. You’ve got the group activities fictional students inexplicably give a shit about, the 25-year-old actors who look…
Sammi, the psychotic drama bomb is back–and within the first thirty seconds of this episode, Ronnie has already returned to his usual sniffling shit-show behavior. Between his slamming of sliding doors, turning pale, mumbling and pouting, Ronnie is a tantrum-throwing mess. The Situation makes everything worse by imitating the chokehold…
