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
Somewhere in New York City, a mad scientist is hard at work creating a glowing green serum that will mutate animals into walking, talking, sentient entities so that the doctor—who feels so terribly, terribly alone—will finally have a family. What … Continue reading TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: MUTANT MAYHEM
Mia (Sophie Wilde) and Riley (Joe Bird) are driving home without a care in the world when they stumble upon a wounded kangaroo. Probably hit by a truck, the kangaroo lies on the road bleeding and mewling for help. Should … Continue reading TALK TO ME
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
Long before Little Boy and Fat Man were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, even before he first glimpsed his creation two weeks earlier at Trinity, J. Robert Oppenheimer was haunted by the bomb. Played by Cillian Murphy and … Continue reading OPPENHEIMER
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
France, 1918: Raphaël (Raphaël Thiery) has returned from the war to end all wars. His wife, Marie, died sometime while he was fighting, work has dried up, and the townsfolk look down upon him. On the plus side, Raphaël meets … Continue reading SCARLET
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
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