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
A shoe is just a shoe. Until someone steps into it. That’s Nike’s mantra, repeated by the man who designs the shoes, the man who markets the shoes, and the man who is on the cusp of revolutionizing them. A … Continue reading AIR
Deep Water is a preposterous movie. Particularly the ending, which crosscuts one character chasing after another through the woods and the young daughter of one of those characters throwing a suitcase into the backyard pool. Why, you ask? Well, to answer … Continue reading DEEP WATER
On Monday, January 10, the Denver Film Critics Society—15 writers and broadcasters working in and around the Mile High City, of which I am one—announced their nominees for the best of 2021. In total, 44 movies received nominations with The Power … Continue reading And the nominees are…
On Friday, January 7, the Denver Film Critics Society (DFCS)—15 writers and broadcasters working in and around the Mile High City, of which I am one—cast their preliminary ballots for this year’s DFCS awards. How it works: Members are asked … Continue reading Denver Film Critics Society 2021 Ballot
JR Moehringer (Daniel Ranieri) has come home to Manhasset. To grandpa, an eccentric old-timer who is smarter than he lets on and lazier than you can imagine. His Long Island house is falling apart, paint chip by paint chip, and … Continue reading THE TENDER BAR
DC and Warner Brothers’ Justice League enters the movie-sphere lugging a fair amount of baggage. Wonder Woman—2017’s previous installment in DC’s extended universe—was a success, but the two prior outings—Man of Steel (2013) and Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)—did little to flesh out the … Continue reading JUSTICE LEAGUE
Adapted from the 2012 novel by Dennis Lehane, Live By Night is a great American epic stuck inside a misguided movie. Written for the screen, produced, and directed by Ben Affleck, who also stars, Live by Night starts overseas in the trenches of World … Continue reading LIVE BY NIGHT
It’s been said many times before—probably every four years—but rarely has it been said with such vitriol or rung as true: “Americans are going to get the president they deserve.” Gone are the days of 2008’s campaign of hope and … Continue reading BATMAN V SUPERMAN: DAWN OF JUSTICE
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