On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about September 5, out now in theaters, and Ernest Cole: Lost and Found, which is playing as part of the Dairy Arts Center’s Artists You Should Know series. Continue reading
On Friday, Jan. 17, the Denver Film Critics Society—a group of writers, broadcasters, and bloggers working in and around the Mile High City, of which I am one—announced their nominees for the best of 2024. In total, a whopping 42 … Continue reading And the nominees are…
Ben Chaplin wants to surprise you. It’s a simple charge, but it’s what the stage and screen actor of more than 30 years has in mind when he takes a new role. “That’s always my goal: to do something that … Continue reading “I don’t mind making them uncomfortable.” Ben Chaplin on SEPTEMBER 5
A woman is dying and asks her friend for a favor. “What is it?” the friend asks. “I’m going to kill myself,” the woman says. “And I want you to be in the room next door when I do.” That … Continue reading THE ROOM NEXT DOOR
They tried to warn us, but the lesson didn’t take. Released in 2006, writer-director Mike Judge’s Idiocracy was offloaded into theaters and damn near buried by distributor 20th Century Fox. In another world, Idiocracy would have come and gone with … Continue reading Cue the Projector: Previewing the Spring 2025 International Film Series
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about Nosferatu, out now in theaters, and the Sie FilmCenter’s newest repertory program: Janus for January. Continue reading
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about my top 10 movies of 2024. Continue reading
The call came around 8:30, Friday morning. As these things do, it came without presage or pageantry. A friend had died. It happened while he was on a typical bike ride—nothing nefarious, nothing significant, just a simple fall, and that … Continue reading 2024: The End Has No End
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about two new movies—one a doc, the other a narrative—about watershed moments in 1960s rock ‘n’ roll: Beatles ’64 and A Complete Unknown. Continue reading
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