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…
The 6th annual Reel Rock Film Tour kicks off on Thursday, September 15, at the Boulder Theater, featuring six of the year’s most intense climbing documentaries. This week, Boulder’s Sender Films and Reel Rock event promoter Big Up Productions released the 2011 lineup and a trailer featuring each of the…
Design for the Other 90%. This traveling exhibit from the Cooper-Hewitt in New York — the national design museum of the Smithsonian Institution — is being presented at RedLine, which is strange, as it relates more to technology than to art. Not only that, but it’s way too small for…
You know those Affliction shirts, covered in skulls, gothic lettering and tribal patterns, all cacophonous symbols of bad-ass machismo? That’s what the mixed martial arts tie-in movie Warrior is: an everything-but-the-kitchen-sink fire sale of male-weepie tropes, awesome in its thoroughness. The collective dream of authentic blue-collar American grubbiness lives on…
Currently the fifth-to-last film on Steven Soderbergh’s ever-expanding pre-retirement slate, Contagion opens on day two of a global viral epidemic. Gwyneth Paltrow plays Beth Emhoff, an employee of an ominously unspecific multinational corporation who returns from a business trip in Hong Kong to her wintry Midwestern home feeling like crap…
At one point in Higher Ground, Vera Farmiga’s decades-spanning directorial debut, the actress, playing Corinne, a woman still soaked with lake water after her baptism into an evangelical sect, resembles no less a touchstone than Ronee Blakley in Robert Altman’s Nashville: slightly high hair; starchy, sexless, long tunic dress; swaying…
We generally try not to let our hipster cynicism and pessimism override us here at Show and Tell, but there’s no way around the truth of hindsight. Now that it’s September, and the official Summer movie season is over, we know: The tentpole Summer movies of 2011 sucked, and sucked…
