On Friday, Jan. 24, 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 picks for the best of 2024. Of the 42 movies nominated, … Continue reading And the winner is…
On Friday, Jan. 17, 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 2024. In total, a whopping 42 … Continue reading And the nominees are…
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about my top 10 movies of 2024. Continue reading
The call came around 8:30, Friday morning. As these things do, it came without presage or pageantry. A friend had died. It happened while he was on a typical bike ride—nothing nefarious, nothing significant, just a simple fall, and that … Continue reading 2024: The End Has No End
On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about two new movies in theaters: the sci-fi survivalist drama Elevation, which was filmed in Colorado, and the comedy A Real Pain. Continue reading
Slightly neurotic and a little anxious, David Kaplan (Jesse Eisenberg) moves and talks like he’s wound a bit too tight. He’s the type to use a flood of fast-flowing words to keep his real emotions at bay. Social decorum is … Continue reading A REAL PAIN
Maybe you were underwhelmed by the summer blockbuster season. A lot of them did feel somewhat unfinished and underdeveloped, didn’t they? Perhaps you felt the spring release slate was a little light, and the winter award season was a tad … Continue reading Here Comes Cinema: 2024 Fall Movie Preview
We’re coming up on the 200th birthday of motion pictures,” film editor Walter Murch told the audience at the 51st Telluride Film Festival. “I said pictures, not photography,” he continued, pointing out that the first zoetropes and phenakistiscopes created crude … Continue reading In the Cut: Dispatch From the 51st Telluride Film Festival
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