Reviews, interviews, and festival coverage for Boulder’s only independent newspaper from 2014 to 2025.
Your wife’s got that gorgeous glow that comes with your first marriage,” a party guest quips to the oblivious husband. Yes, his face says silently, she does. But is that all? Probably not. This is Phantom Thread, after all, from writer/director … Continue reading PHANTOM THREAD
If the whole of 2017 could be summed up in one cinematic moment, then that moment would not be found in the cinema but on TVs, tablets, laptops, and phones. And it would not be a moment of illuminating comprehension, … Continue reading 2017: ‘What year is this?’
Practically everyone knows of Tonya Harding, the figure skater connected with kneecapping her competitor, Nancy Kerrigan, prior to the 1994 Winter Olympics. But how many know the story leading up to that dramatic incident? How many skip the article and … Continue reading I, TONYA
1987, somewhere in Northern Italy, a young man is about to come of age. Like most 17-year-old boys, the boredom of day-in, day-out routine is about to be replaced by something new, something extraordinary. Sex, naturally. And like the multitudes … Continue reading CALL ME BY YOUR NAME
May 1940: Hitler is riding roughshod across Europe, gobbling up territory like an insatiable monster. Norway, Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Denmark have all fallen. Belgium, Holland, and France are falling. Britain is next. England’s current Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain, wants to … Continue reading DARKEST HOUR
There’s nothing like a good fairy tale, especially one with teeth—and Mexican writer/producer/director Guillermo del Toro has plenty of teeth to go around. Not to mention lovers, monsters, and the overwhelming power stories have to connect. The Shape of Water is … Continue reading THE SHAPE OF WATER
Outside Sweden’s X-Royal museum of modern and contemporary art, a worker replaces the bricks in the cobblestone courtyard just so and lies down a luminous string of lights in the shape of a perfectly constructed square. This is the museum’s … Continue reading THE SQUARE
All stories have to begin somewhere. Brimstone & Glory, a documentary about Mexico’s week-long National Pyrotechnics Festival, takes place in modern-day Tultepec, but its origins lie on the other side of the Atlantic, in Portugal specifically, at the end of the … Continue reading BRIMSTONE & GLORY
Just as every journey begins with a single step, a lifetime of passion blossoms from a simple aha moment. “My junior year in college, I was in this computer graphics class, and the professor showed these short films that were … Continue reading Danielle Feinberg on COCO
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