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
If the Western is the vehicle with which contemporary filmmakers investigate the past to understand the present, then Liberty Valance illuminates how unrest in the 20th century reached back to the 19th century to uncover the lies America has been telling itself ever since. Continue reading THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, playing CU-Boulder’s International Film Series on Sunday, Nov. 2, and OBEX, playing the Denver Film Festival Oct. 31 and Nov. 8. Continue reading After Image: Oct. 31, 2025
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