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
On Friday, Jan. 9, the Denver Film Critics Society—a group of writers, broadcasters, and bloggers working in and around the Mile High City, of which I am one—announced their nominees for the best of 2025. In total, a whopping 44 … Continue reading And the nominees are…
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!
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about Park Chan-wook’s latest black comedy, No Other Choice, out now in theaters, and run through my top 10 movies of 2025. Continue reading After Image: Jan. 2, 2026
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
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about Marty Supreme and Song Sung Blue, both out in theaters. Continue reading After Image: Dec. 26, 2025
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
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about Avatar: Fire and Ash, out now in theaters, The Mastermind, streaming on MUBI, and Wake Up Dead Man, streaming on Netflix and a couple theaters around town. Continue reading After Image: Dec. 19, 2025
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