Say this for Sleepless: It gives Michelle Monaghan more to do than almost anything else you’ve seen her in lately, whether it beTrue Detective or Patriots Day, and confirms once again that she should be in the lead far more often than Hollywood would have you believe. The positives don’t…
Gentle, humane, embracing a full range from slapstick to tragedy, Marcel Pagnol’s trilogy about the people of the Marseille waterfront has bewitched audiences for decades. Multiple remakes, including a Broadway musical, Hollywood condensations by James Whale in 1938 and Joshua Logan in 1961 and a recent “reboot” from French actor…
Dylan Gebbia-Richards’s skill as a freestyle skier and a yearning to be on the slopes brought him to Colorado from the East Coast, landing him at the University of Colorado Boulder, where he switched gears from other interests to pursue art.
Baseball is a lifestyle — and it also teaches you a lot, says Geoffrey LeClaire, who’s eager to get the Afterburners on the diamond this spring.
Looking for free things to do this week? Here’s your guide for January 23-26.
When Michael “Eyedea” Larsen passed away in his sleep, on October 16, 2010, the world lost one of its great musical talents.
Denver’s Museum of Contemporary Art announced Wednesday it would not to join dozens of art institutions and hundreds of artists who went on strike, on inauguration day, attempting to shut down the art world in protest of Donald Trump’s inauguration.
DIY stands for “do it yourself” — not “pay a pro to do it for you.” Yet that sums up a Denver planner’s advice to DIY artists, many broke, all wanting to avoid a fire like the one that burned down Oakland’s Ghost Ship warehouse, killing 36 young people, in December.
Kelsey Montague is an uplifting Colorado artist whose murals can be found sprinkled around the Denver metro area. She just completed her first street-art piece of 2017, in the RiNo Art District: wings made of red, black, white and patterned hearts that she hopes will unite the city and country during cultural turmoil. #WhatUnitesUs is on the east-facing wall of Il Posto, at 26th and Larimer streets.
I’m still trying to decide if Sundance’s decision to kick off its 2017 festival with An Inconvenient Sequel, Al Gore’s follow-up to his influential (and terrifying) climate change documentary An Inconvenient Truth, is an act of political confrontation or a sign of helplessness. (Or both?) What kind of message does…
Last June, after the death of Muhammad Ali, Michael Mann’s Will Smith–starring 2001 film Ali was briefly re-released in theaters. This allowed many of us to see it with fresh eyes. What felt like an ambitious but underwhelming biopic 15 years ago now seems more and more like a masterpiece…
As a curator, Daisy McGowan is interested in going beneath the surface of every work she places in a group exhibition.
Donald Fodness has been seeing double in the studio, from the looks of Duets, a series of drawings and bronze sculptures comprising his inaugural solo exhibition at David B. Smith Gallery in LoDo.
We’ve got anything and everything to do in this city this weekend, all on the cheap. We’re making music, pushing our bodies’ limits and getting plain old drunk, with a theatrical twist.
While Meow Wolf has yet to announce whether it will create a Denver space all its own, the Santa Fe-based DIY venue and art collective announced today that it is donating $20,000 to Rhinoceropolis and Glob to help the venues pay for immediate needs, such as meeting code compliance, as well as for rent, utilities and building costs.
Both a film noir and a candy-colored confection, Pedro Almodóvar’s Julieta is one of the most absorbing films he’s made in years. It’s also, perhaps, one of the saddest: Its bright hues and vivid textures offset a deep, unshakable melancholy. Based on a trio of Alice Munro short stories, Julieta…
One of the quasi-bohemians in Mike Mills’ gauzy 20th Century Women loves to document ephemera, taking photos of everything she owns. A similar instinct — archiving as art — guides Mills’ movie itself, a trip back in time in which era-specific talismans substitute for genuine thought. Though big feels glut…
The Belgian crime drama The Ardennes is predictably tense and violent, but its aesthetic pleasures are also considerable. Director Robin Pront plays a lot of familiar notes, but with just enough verve and variation to keep things interesting. The film opens in the immediate aftermath of a botched robbery, as…
Despite his reputation, M. Night Shyamalan has never lived and died by the twist. His best films, like Unbreakable or even last year’s cheerily nasty wicked-grandparents thriller The Visit, work first as accomplished, emotionally engaging suspense. What’s most memorable about them isn’t the final-act revelations or even the quietly impressive…
Like its subject, the man who took McDonald’s from a single burger shop to a globe-straddling child-fattener, John Lee Hancock’s The Founder can’t stop selling. The first fast-food kitchen, set up in 1953 by the solemn McDonald brothers in San Bernardino, gets celebrated here as rousingly as John Glenn’s first…
One of the most powerful documentaries of 2016, Keith Maitland’s Tower immerses the viewer in the 1966 massacre at the University of Texas, during which Charles Whitman fired from a clock-tower in Austin, shooting 49 people and killing 16. The film takes a somewhat surprising and stylized approach to re-creating…
Get ready for Artopia 2017, which will celebrate Denver’s street art with four areas dedicated to some of the Mile High City’s most iconic avenues: Larimer, Santa Fe, Colfax and Federal.
