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…
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
The visuals are stunning—that you can probably guess. Not all are perfect: too many, intentionally, have the herky-jerky quality of a first-person shooter video game. But others have a tactility that renders the descriptor “photo-realistic” inadequate. Most movies traffic in … Continue reading AVATAR: FIRE AND ASH
Michael J. Cinema 