On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about Hamnet and Merrily We Roll Along, both in theaters everywhere, and offer Criterion’s latest Eclipse Set: Abbas Kiarostami – Early Shorts and Features for those of you shopping for the cinephile in your life this holiday season. Continue reading After Image: Dec. 5, 2025
Merrily We Roll Along is neither a stage show nor is it cinema, but damn it’s good. Filmed over three performances in June 2024, not long after the Stephen Sondheim and George Furth penned musical won four Tonys in the … Continue reading MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about Zootopia 2, out in wide release this weekend, Rebuilding, now out in limited release, and Left-Handed Girl, streaming on Netflix. Continue reading After Image: Nov. 28, 2025
“Hope was always the key to it,” directed Max Walker-SIlverman says of Rebuilding. “I was fairly conscious at the outset of writing this film: I’m going to create something for myself to give myself hope.” Continue reading Max Walker-Silverman on REBUILDING
Zootopia 2 is not a movie for the children in the audience; it’s for the adults. I’m sure little ones will enjoy it—there’s plenty of bright colors, silly moments, and chaotic chases to grab a kid’s attention—but in a movie … Continue reading ZOOTOPIA 2
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about Sentimental Value, out now in the limited release, Rental Family, now playing everywhere, and Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink, streaming on PBS.org until Dec. 31. Continue reading After Image: Nov. 21, 2025
It was a toothpaste commercial that brought Phillip Vandarpleog (Brendan Fraser) to Japan. That was seven years ago, and he’s been a working, if not struggling, actor since. Fraser plays Phillip as a man stuck in second gear, his face … Continue reading RENTAL FAMILY
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about what to see at the 48th Denver Film Festival: I Was Born This Way, Zodiac Killer Project, and The Secret Agent, as well as the excellent Iranian film It Was Just an Accident. Continue reading After Image: Nov. 7, 2025
Premiering at the Tribeca Film Festival earlier this year, I Was Born This Way now comes to the 48th Denver Film Festival. For Boulder Reporting Lab, I spoke with Junge about the movie, the rediscovery of Bean’s gay liberation anthem, and the state of filmmaking in Boulder. Continue reading Daniel Junge on I WAS BORN THIS WAY
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