Pica (Toby Smith) is an Oakland college student taking Polaroids in a photography class devoted to 35 mm. “I came here to learn how to express myself,” she tells the teacher (Salim Akil). “You gotta have a 35 mm camera … Continue reading Nobody Puts Baby in the Corner: DRYLONGSO and The Ranown Westerns
Thoughts on the fourth annual Mimesis Documentary Festival. Continue reading
As you read this, members of the Writers Guild of America (WGA) and the Screen Actors Guild of America (SAG) are currently pounding the pavement in New York and Los Angeles, raising signs and rhyming chants to anyone who will … Continue reading National Film Registry 2023 Nominations Ballot
What is the story of us? That’s a question many movies try to answer, sometimes with the “us” meaning you and me, sometimes with the “us” meaning everyone. Few ever get there, but it’s still a question worth asking, whether … Continue reading This is Us: Previewing the 2023 Mimesis Documentary Festival
At 18, Ted Hall was the youngest scientist working on the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos. Ted was a thoughtful man, though a terrible soldier. As his wife Joan recounts, Hall hated the Army-issued hat he had to wear and … Continue reading A COMPASSIONATE SPY
Thoughts on the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie, “Mutant Mayhem,” and a preview of CinemaQ at the Sie Film Center. Continue reading
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
Thoughts on the latest horror film from A24, “Talk to Me,” and another entry in 2023’s burgeoning buy-o-pic genre, “The Beanie Bubble.” Continue reading
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