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
The year is 1875, and the bottom has dropped out for the beef market. Cows are reduced to cheap hides and tallow, and the ranchers who built their empires on hundreds, thousands, of heads of steer are now considering foreclosures. … Continue reading COW COUNTRY
There once was a time when some of the brightest thinkers wondered if movies were the answer. Could this new visual language topple tyrants? Fix social problems? Rewrite the political landscape? There were many questions, and the answer kept coming … Continue reading PASOLINI 101
Indy sure does have to fight Nazis a lot. Probably because Raiders of the Lost Ark featured Nazis, and the movie did so well at the box office that the creators of the now five-film series fall back on that familiar formula … Continue reading INDIANA JONES AND THE DIAL OF DESTINY
It’s spring 1865, and the American Civil War is winding down. Factions have sprung off, and the frontier is rife with outlaws and gangs. Stuck in the middle is Border City, a town straddling the Arkansas and Missouri state lines, … Continue reading WOMAN THEY ALMOST LYNCHED
The play’s the thing, and for Conrad Earp (Edward Norton), a Tennessee Williams-type with a predilection for Tom of Finland cowboy art, his new play is sure to be the one that wakes the audience up. Or puts them to … Continue reading ASTEROID CITY
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