All movies, at some point, contain a test. A moment in the narrative where you, the viewer, get to decide to continue down the path the movie walks, or go and find something else to watch. Some movies are more … Continue reading 28 YEARS LATER: THE BONE TEMPLE
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
How does one live in a world after it ends? I’m not talking about hoarding provisions and the nuts and bolts of kill-or-be-killed survival, but the impulse to live when everything around you dies. For the characters of 28 Years … Continue reading 28 YEARS LATER
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…
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
On Monday, January 9, 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 2022. In total, 38 movies received nominations, with Everything Everywhere … Continue reading And the nominees are…
Love for James Bond is tragic. Sure, his conquests are as numerous as they are fleeting, but consider 1969’s On Her Majesty’s Secret Service: Bond marries Countess Tracy, only to lose her to a bullet meant for him. The man behind … Continue reading NO TIME TO DIE
For the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts. —George Eliot, Middlemarch On Jan. 31, 2003, Katherine Gun’s life changed. Gun, a translator, working for the British intelligence agency Government Communication Headquarters (GCHQ), received an email from … Continue reading OFFICIAL SECRETS
Kubo and the Two Strings—the latest stop-motion animation from the Portland-based Laika Entertainment—opens with a fantastic piece of advice: “If you must blink, do it now.” With that, director Travis Knight drops the audience into a fairy tale that races … Continue reading KUBO AND THE TWO STRINGS
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