Every Labor Day weekend since 1974, filmmakers, critics, historians, students, moviegoers, and a handful of outdoorsmen and women converge on the quaint mountain town of Telluride, Colorado, to celebrate the past and present of their beloved art form. They come … Continue reading Simply Potent: Dispatched from the 2016 Telluride Film Festival
On Friday, Jan. 8, the Denver Film Critics Society (DFCS)—16 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 2020 Ballot
Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd is a Union man, and he’s got a signed oath to prove it. Kidd carries it wherever he goes, and where he goes, he brings the news. Kidd’s beat is Texas, and he rides from town … Continue reading NEWS OF THE WORLD
The Second World War was fought on the land, in the air, and on the sea. And in the Atlantic Ocean, there is a space just out of range of Allied air forces. Here, only sea vessels go: “The Black … Continue reading GREYHOUND
Coco gets better with every viewing. Cars 3 improves slightly. Toy Story 4 does not. It makes the construction lazier, motivation messier, and rewrites a central character to make him the fool. It’s not one for the ages. From Boulder Weekly Vol. 26, No. 45, “To infinity, … Continue reading TOY STORY 4
Mr. Rodgers doesn’t feel like he should be part of this world. His gentleness, kindness, and saint-like patience seem better placed in the world of make-believe — right next to King Friday XIII and Daniel Tiger. Until the recent (and … Continue reading A BEAUTIFUL DAY IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD
On January 15, 2009, US Airways Flight 1549 departed LaGuardia airport at 3:24 p.m. There were 155 souls, including captain and crew, on board. Roughly 208 seconds later, flight 1549 was forced to land on the Hudson River not more … Continue reading SULLY
James B. Donovan (Tom Hanks) is a kind man in a cruel world. Rare considering that Donovan is an insurance lawyer in the middle of the Cold War. Donovan—who served on the Nuremberg Trails—is recruited to defend a captured Soviet … Continue reading BRIDGE OF SPIES
By the time I’d done Bloody Sunday I felt I reached the end of a chapter. I could feel it. I wanted to try something new, something different. Then, to my amazement, Bloody Sunday won lots of theatrical prizes, the … Continue reading Born On This Day — August 13, 1955
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