On Feb. 8, 1977, Tony Kiritsis walked into an Indianapolis mortgage firm, strapped a shotgun to the neck of executive Richard Hall, and then headed home, where he held law enforcement, TV news crews, and a popular radio station deejay … Continue reading DEAD MAN’S WIRE
England, 1916: the war is on. A dearth of male voices has required a rural choral to relax their acceptance standards, and anti-German sentiment has forced a program shift from Bach’s Passion to Edward Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius—an oratorio … Continue reading THE CHORAL
This post is third in a series of movie discussions about westerns at the University of Colorado Boulder’s International Film Series. My Darling Clementine will screen Sunday, Jan. 13, 2026 at 2 p.m. Tickets start at $8. Though it’s a … Continue reading MY DARLING CLEMENTINE
Joan Webster has known where she is going since day one. But it wasn’t until today that she knew the destination: Kiloran. It’s an island in the Scottish Hebrides, and she sets off to wed the man who waits for … Continue reading I KNOW WHERE I’M GOING!
Man-su has been laid off. Actually, it’s worse: Man-su’s middle-management position has been dissolved—made redundant by advancements in technology, corporate consolidation, and social devaluing of the craft it takes to make everyday objects. What’s a man to do in a … Continue reading NO OTHER CHOICE
The set-up is poetry. On one side of the table stands Koto Endo (Koto Kawaguchi), Japan’s best table tennis player, a man who lost his hearing in the bombing of Tokyo and exists in a silence that brings only stillness. … Continue reading MARTY SUPREME
The visuals are stunning—that you can probably guess. Not all are perfect: too many, intentionally, have the herky-jerky quality of a first-person shooter video game. But others have a tactility that renders the descriptor “photo-realistic” inadequate. Most movies traffic in … Continue reading AVATAR: FIRE AND ASH
Merrily We Roll Along is neither a stage show nor is it cinema, but damn it’s good. Filmed over three performances in June 2024, not long after the Stephen Sondheim and George Furth penned musical won four Tonys in the … Continue reading MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG
Zootopia 2 is not a movie for the children in the audience; it’s for the adults. I’m sure little ones will enjoy it—there’s plenty of bright colors, silly moments, and chaotic chases to grab a kid’s attention—but in a movie … Continue reading ZOOTOPIA 2
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