Tower Records was once the place where many gathered to hear great new music, tell their friends about a record they just heard, and, most importantly, to purchase it. Tower Records was the place where Nirvana drummer and Foo Fighters … Continue reading ALL THINGS MUST PASS
If you’ve spent any time on the University of Colorado Boulder’s campus, you probably noticed the courtyard fountain next to the University Memorial Center—the kind of courtyard where couples take their engagement photos and children play on hot summer days. … Continue reading TRUMBO
Filmmaking is an act of optimism. Setting ideas to paper; convincing others to come and join the party; devoting time, money, blood, sweat, and tears to capture those images on celluloid; believing those images can carry meaning throughout the world; … Continue reading Thelma Schoonmaker and Margaret Bodde on THE TALES OF HOFFMANN
Based on Charles M. Schulz’s successful daily cartoon strip and incorporating elements from the TV specials, The Peanuts Movie captures the simplicity and wonder of childhood anxiety, neurosis, and imagination. Broken into chapters, The Peanuts Movie follows Charlie Brown as he tries to fly … Continue reading THE PEANUTS MOVIE
Laney Brooks (Sarah Silverman) has problems. She tells her husband (Josh Charles) she doesn’t want her children to have a dog because they will fall in love with the dog, causing them to be devastated when it eventually dies. Since … Continue reading I SMILE BACK
Come sit and be swept away,” the Denver Film Festival boasts. And for the 38th time, it aims to do just that. Running Nov. 4-15, DFF beckons moviegoers young and old, new and seasoned, liberal and conservative, with roughly 250 … Continue reading Spotlight on Colorado: Dispatches From the 38th Denver Film Festival
Finders Keepers is as delightful as it is bizarre. It is the story of an amputated left foot and the two men who fought over it from 2008 to 2014. Some things you just have to see to believe. In 2004, John … Continue reading FINDERS KEEPERS
No one’s gonna top this, in our posterity, I don’t think. Maybe, but I doubt it,” Ben Thamer tells the video camera in the new documentary, Unbranded. “You can run a marathon, you can hike across the Great Wall, you can do … Continue reading Ben Masters on UNBRANDED
Horror movies are wondrous things. With a horror movie, one can confront their deepest darkest fears and survive them. The rush of adrenaline at the sight of danger gives way to the sigh of relief and chuckle of amusement when … Continue reading YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN
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