Sundance 101
What’s next for the famed film festival? The answer may lie in the past. Continue reading Sundance 101
After Image: March 6, 2026
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about Sirât, out now in limited release, and Micro Budget, available Video on Demand starting March 10. Continue reading After Image: March 6, 2026
MICRO BUDGET
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
After Image: Feb. 27, 2026
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
After Image: Feb. 20, 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
PILLION
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
After Image: Feb. 6, 2026
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
After Image: Jan. 30, 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
THE MOMENT
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
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