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From Aug. 10-13, the CinemaQ Film Festival—Denver’s only LGBTQ movie event—returns to the Sie Film Center for four days of screenings, discussion panels, drag parties, and special guests. If you’ve felt that this has been a rather bland and rote … Continue reading CHASING CHASING AMY at 2023 CinemaQ Film Festival
Storytelling is creativity within limitations. And when your story takes place in a fantasy world—be it with dragons, lightsabers, or toys—there are really only two options in front of you: Remain in the fantasy and make the fantastical realistic, or … Continue reading BARBIE
Isaac Nabwana was a bricklayer with movies on his mind. But Uganda didn’t have the resources for Isaac’s dreams. By Isaac’s admission, his neighborhood, Wakaliga, is a ghetto, a small village littered with refuse and an open sewage channel running … Continue reading ONCE UPON A TIME IN UGANDA
Yes, it’s beautiful out there. Probably the Boulder region’s best summer in recent memory: cool temperatures (until recently), lots of rain, and no smoke to speak of. It’s lovely. But not too far east, it’s tornadoes and hail. To the … Continue reading Racing the Clock: 2023 Boulder Environmental / Nature / Outdoors Film Festival
For 30 years, Ethan Hunt has been living in an augmented reality. Everywhere he turns are deceptions, lies, trickery, false narratives, and people who are not who they say they are. It’s all in a day’s work for Mr. Hunt, … Continue reading MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE — DEAD RECKONING PART ONE
Most movies, on some level, are about reconciling the space between parents and their children. It’s the theme that runs right through the heart of Elemental, so it makes sense that’s where Paul Kubala’s head was at when we talked … Continue reading Paul Kubala on ELEMENTAL
There once was a time when some of the brightest thinkers wondered if movies were the answer. Could this new visual language topple tyrants? Fix social problems? Rewrite the political landscape? There were many questions, and the answer kept coming … Continue reading PASOLINI 101
The play’s the thing, and for Conrad Earp (Edward Norton), a Tennessee Williams-type with a predilection for Tom of Finland cowboy art, his new play is sure to be the one that wakes the audience up. Or puts them to … Continue reading ASTEROID CITY
They were friends in college, but it’s been 10 years since the whole group got together. Poor choices and hurt feelings came between them. But that was then, and this is now. And now they’re all getting together in a … Continue reading THE BLACKENING
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