On this week’s edition of After Image, I sit down with Metro Arts’ producer Veronica Straight-Lingo to discuss Frozen 2, A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, and The Report. Listen to After Image, Fridays at 3:00 p.m., on KGNU’s Metro Arts: 88.5 FM, … Continue reading
Timing is everything, and as the 2019 Impeachment Hearings drag on, the release of the new political thriller, The Report seems as perfectly timed as anything. Or maybe not. Maybe audiences will seek solace in the multiplex rather than complement. … Continue reading This week in Film — THE REPORT, FROZEN 2, and WAVES
Mr. Rodgers doesn’t feel like he should be part of this world. His gentleness, kindness, and saint-like patience seem better placed in the world of make-believe — right next to King Friday XIII and Daniel Tiger. Until the recent (and … Continue reading A BEAUTIFUL DAY IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD
Much has changed in how we view movies in the past decade. Even though we’ve been streaming movies at home since the mid-to-late-2000s (around the same time as the first Blu-rays hit the market), watching DVDs since the mid-1990s, VHS … Continue reading Sunday Streams — Disney+
On this week’s edition of After Image, is sit down with Metro Arts’ producer Veronica Straight-Lingo to discuss The Irishman. But that’s not all we talked about. We also chatted about The Good Liar, Babette’s Feast, and Bicycle Thieves. But to hear those, you’ll have … Continue reading
Martin Scorsese’s 25th feature film, The Irishman, is a masterpiece. A work of maturity and atonement from one of cinema’s greatest talents. And though it seems foolish to parse this mammoth piece of work, the joys of the whole can … Continue reading This week in FILM — THE IRISHMAN and BABETTE’S FEAST
Set in London 2009 — for somewhat arbitrary reasons — The Good Liar opens with two lonely souls seeking companionship via a dating website: Distinctive Dating. Both are elderly, and both check various boxes and add personal information while the opening titles … Continue reading THE GOOD LIAR
One of the true pleasures of a film festival is the ability to walk into a movie, know nothing about the film or the filmmakers, and walk out floored. Sometimes it leads to discovery, other times it leads to familiarity. … Continue reading Sunday Streams — BIRDS OF PASSAGE
The 42nd Denver Film Festival wraps up Nov. 10, but there are still a slew of movies to see. For this week’s Boulder Weekly, I highlight three: The Twentieth Century, Premature, Sorry We Missed You — the latter is one … Continue reading This week in Film — Weekend Two of the Denver Film Festival and LONG DAY’S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT
It must have come as a surprise to filmgoers in the mid-90s that the next Martin Scorsese feature film would focus on the childhood of the 14th Dalai Lama. Then again, it probably came as a similar surprise in the … Continue reading Blu Tuesday: KUNDUN
