Terry is everything that’s wrong with the world. Funny enough, it’s the least of his concerns. The wannabe filmmaker from Iowa has booked an Airbnb for a week to shoot a low-budget apocalyptic sci-fi movie about a “space meteor”—as opposed … Continue reading MICRO BUDGET
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about the Oscar Nominated Shorts: Animation, Documentary, Live Action, playing area art house theaters, and highlight the newly restored The Lovers on the Bridge, playing Feb. 28 at the Sie FilmCenter. Continue reading After Image: Feb. 27, 2026
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about Pillion, out now in theaters, and All That’s Left of You, playing the Dairy Arts Center, March 24-27. Continue reading After Image: Feb. 20, 2026
All relationships, romantic or not, revolve around a question of boundaries. Romantic ones just take it further into the realm of what is acceptable and what is desirable. That second component, desire, is difficult for some. For Colin (Harry Melling), … Continue reading PILLION
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about The Moment, now playing the Sie FilmCenter in Denver, alongside three other movies curated by Charli XCX: Perfect Blue, Persona, and The Square, and preview the latest edition to the Western Movie Club: The Gunfighter, which will screen 2 p.m. Sun., Feb. 8 at the International Film Series. Continue reading After Image: Feb. 6, 2026
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about a new doc, The Man Who Saves the World?, the Oscar-nominated animated Arco, and recap the 2026 Sundance Film Festival. Continue reading After Image: Jan. 30, 2026
Reporting from the 2026 Sundance Film Festival. If Charli XCX had her say, brat summer would be here to stay. If her label, manager, world tour crew, and dozens of hangers-on had their say, brat summer would never go away. … Continue reading THE MOMENT
Reporting from the 2026 Sundance Film Festival. On Aug. 12, 2022, Hadi Mater rushed the stage of the Chautauqua Institution in Western New York state and stabbed author Salman Rushdie multiple times in the face, neck, hand, and abdomen. “For … Continue reading KNIFE: THE ATTEMPTED MURDER OF SALMAN RUSHDIE
On Jan. 24, the Denver Film Critics Society—a group of writers, broadcasters, and bloggers working in and around the Mile High City, of which I am one—announced their picks for the best of 2025. Of the 44 movies nominated, Sinners … Continue reading And the winner is…
Michael J. Cinema 
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