Bitch-slaps and blood-oozing bullet wounds became less frequent in Colorado last week as filming of locally shot Motor Vixens wrapped up. Joe DuRand, who plays the character known only as Walker, calls the movie “a hot rod full of wicked women on a hell-ride to Nowheresville.” And Kelly Hart calls…
Exposure. Eric Paddock is the Denver Art Museum’s first full-fledged photo curator to head up his own new department. To unveil the permanent gallery for photography in the Ponti tower, he’s put together Exposure: Photos From the Vault, highlighting a range of gems from the DAM’s collection. Collected in fits…
Opening with a deeply sincere “I don’t give a fuck!” Austin filmmaker Ben Steinbauer’s investigative doc Winnebago Man sets out to prove the contrary. Steinbauer’s mission is to find Jack Rebney, the hitherto-anonymous pitchman whose fabulously profane tantrums during the course of making a 1989 RV infomercial — amid a…
Directing himself as a verifiable big-movie lead after some time in supporting-actor Triple-A ball, director-star Ben Affleck models a full line of warmup suits to play Doug MacRay, a second-generation blue-collar stickup man, the brains of his four-man bank crew. The setting is Charlestown, the square-mile majority-Irish Boston neighborhood that…
Big Game Restaurant will screen a classic, beer-infused flick every night this week to honor the goodness that is beer and to celebrate Denver Beer Fest, which runs through September 19. Tonight’s movie — which Big Game will show on its thirty-foot HDTV, is Beerfest from 2006 (look below for…
Denver’s a great place for fans of the big five of genre film (that’s sci-fi, fantasy, horror, exploitation and cult), as every week we get a generous helping of selections to choose from. As usual, we’re rounding up your options for the weekend to come and the following week, and…
Abstracts. Summer is typically the time for group shows, and this year the William Havu Gallery presented two of them. First was Landscapes, a survey of the many artists in Havu’s stable who do representational work. Up now is Abstracts. Gallery director Bill Havu has some of the state’s top…
Amir Bar-Lev’s assiduous, furious documentary on the Army’s craven coverup of the death by friendly fire of former NFLer Pat Tillman in Afghanistan in 2004 — and the exploitation of his corpse for recruitment purposes — is a withering assessment of U.S. military culture. Unlike recent Afghan war doc Restrepo,…
Lebanon, written and directed by Samuel Maoz, is not just the year’s most impressive first feature, but also the strongest new movie of any kind I’ve seen in 2010. Actually, Lebanon hardly seems like a debut, perhaps because it’s based on a scenario Maoz had been replaying in his head…
The two-part tale of French gangster-showman Jacques Mesrine is as densely packed and serially rambling as a well-trafficked Wikipedia entry. Director Jean-François Richet, who whipped up not-bad mayhem in his Assault on Precinct 13 remake, devotes so much time to tallying his subject’s career milestones and highlights — all of…
Either you like Stanley Kubrick or you don’t, but if you fall in former category, you probably can’t get enough, even when it hurts to watch. I, for one, can’t count the number of times I’ve seen Dr. Strangelove, which has to be one of the most stunningly, insidiously funny…
Last February, an MTV production team took over the hallways at the Denver School of the Arts to film an episode of If You Really Knew Me, a new kind of reality show (described ad infinitum as a true-life version of The Breakfast Club), where kids from different backgrounds and…
What to do on a Sunday night, when perhaps you’ve pigged out all day at A Taste of Colorado or Rockabilly and Ribs? And, duh, you don’t have to get up early the next morning? Switch on KBDI-TV/Channel 12 at 11 p.m. September 5 and be enlightened, when the locally…
Denver’s a great place for fans of the big five of genre film (that’s sci-fi, fantasy, horror, exploitation and cult), as every week we get a generous helping of selections to choose from. As usual, we’re rounding up your options for the weekend to come and the following week, and…
Abstracts. Summer is typically the time for group shows, and this year the William Havu Gallery presented two of them. First was Landscapes, a survey of the many artists in Havu’s stable who do representational work. Up now is Abstracts. Gallery director Bill Havu has some of the state’s top…
Set in 117 A.D., the highly enjoyable action-adventure Centurion tracks a small cohort of Roman soldiers who are trapped far north of their empire’s boundary. A triple whammy of abrupt plot twists (I’ll let the movie itself spring them) has these guys being run ragged by a vengeful posse of…
Sometimes you feel bad for movie marketers, tasked with connecting any given film to an audience as large as possible. Take, for example, The American. Judging by the film’s trailers and advertisements, it’s a fast-paced Euro-stylish thriller starring George Clooney as a dashing, conflicted hero. Yet it quickly becomes apparent…
Happily sampling nasty beats and riffs from the Scorsese catalogue, the new Aussie crime saga Animal Kingdom begins with a hushed but breath-holding set piece: A gawky lad watches TV on the couch next to his dozing mum…until the already-summoned EMTs arrive and the boy calmly tells them she’s OD’d…
If you walk into a department store today, you’re going to be bombarded with Halloween paraphernalia. Even though the holiday is still two months out, it’s time to start preparing yourself for the inevitable: horror movie marathons. Unfortunately, it’s difficult to tell what exactly these films might portray, which is…
Denver’s a great place for fans of the big five of genre film (that’s sci-fi, fantasy, horror, exploitation and cult), as every week we get a generous helping of selections to choose from. As usual, we’re rounding up your options for the weekend to come and the following week, and…
Energy Effects. MCA Denver director Adam Lerner and architect Paul Andersen have put together one of the most important of the many Biennial shows on display now. The exhibit, with the epic title of Energy Effects: Art and Artifacts From the Landscape of Glorious Excess, begins outside the building where…
New York mag editor Juliette (Patricia Clarkson) travels alone to Cairo to meet her husband, who works for the United Nations in Gaza. When hubby gets stuck across the border indefinitely due to vague unrest, Tareq (Alexander Siddig), his former bodyguard, steps in as Juliette’s chaperone. Fluent in English and…
