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Patriots Day Finds Mark Wahlberg Caught Between Fiction and Real Disaster

By Michael Nordine

For better and for worse, Peter Berg has found his genre. After oscillating between sports (Friday Night Lights), superheroes (Hancock) and even board games (Battleship) without much distinction, the writer, director, producer and actor has made a loose trilogy in which Mark Wahlberg reenacts recent tales of American heroism. Lone…

Ben Affleck’s Crime Epic Live by Night Is a Pile of Parts

By Bilge Ebiri

Somewhere inside the 128-minute Live by Night is a reasonably solid 168-minute movie struggling to get out. No, that’s not a typo: You can sense the contours of an absorbing story as writer/director/star Ben Affleck’s slapdash and fragmented assemblage limps along. Most of the pieces are there, but they remain…

Jim Jarmusch’s Paterson Shakes the Everyday for All Its Beauty

By Bilge Ebiri

Walking out of Jim Jarmusch’s Paterson last May at Cannes, I felt like it was the closest the director had come to making an artistic manifesto. Having seen it again, I’m even more convinced. Jarmusch first arrived in New York back in the 1970s with dreams of becoming a poet,…

Review: Metro Faculty Show Collective Nouns Rates an A

By Michael Paglia

Organizing faculty shows can be challenging, since the pieces involved are often tied together by nothing more than the fact that they were created by artists who live and work right in town. Collective Nouns, the current show at the Center for Visual Art, was a particular challenge: Metropolitan State…

Artists Can Honor the “Spirit of Wheat Ridge” — If They’ll Do It for Free

By Kyle Harris

Artists thrive within limitations — at least, that’s one theory. A Wheat Ridge High School club’s request for proposals from local artists on how to celebrate the “Spirit of Wheat Ridge” — by decorating local traffic signal boxes wrapped in graffiti-resistant vinyl — is riddled with limitations. Among them: the artists won’t be paid.

The 21 Best Events in Denver, January 10-16

By Westword Staff

If you haven’t already polished your cowboy boots for the National Western Stock Show, dust ’em off for an exhibit honoring Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show. Or check out one of the many art  shows, plays, benefits and food events delights happening between Tuesday, January 10, and Monday, January 16…

No Western Welcome at Denver International Airport This Weekend

By Patricia Calhoun

Visitors landing at Denver International Airport didn’t get much of a Western welcome this past weekend. Although a new train announcement — recorded by a fast-talking auctioneer — touted the National Western Stock Show and a related exhibit on the bridge leading to concourse A, after the sign at the entrance to the bridge, the exhibit cases were empty.

The State of Action Filmmaking, 2017

By Vern

In the ’80s and ’90s, there were action movies. They starred muscly guys like Arnold Schwarzenegger or Sylvester Stallone, or martial artists from Jean-Claude Van Damme to Cynthia Rothrock, or actors who were dedicated to the physical demands of the genre, like Bruce Willis or Wesley Snipes. They mostly told…

Dana Gould on Podcasting, Stan Against Evil and Peak TV

By Byron Graham

Very few comedians have amassed television résumés as impressive as Dana Gould’s — and almost none have made it as far without a starring role on their own eponymous sitcom. Yet with an HBO special, two one-hour Showtime specials and guest appearances on The Late Show With David Letterman, Conan, Maron and Real Time with Bill Maher all under his belt, Gould has hours of material waiting to delight the newly initiated; he has also had prominent guest roles on shows like Anger Management, Seinfeld and in the dirty-joke-etymology documentary The Aristocrats. Westword caught up with Gould before his visit to Denver this week for headlining engagements at The Dairy Arts Center and Comedy Works Downtown to discuss failed projects, his new show and the concept of “peak TV.”

Your January TV Watch List: The Six Shows We’re Counting On

By Laura Beck

New year, new us! JK, new year, same ol’ us: watching TV and hiding in a hole from the bitter January cold and impending doom. The only solution? Watching all the television! You can take the day of the inauguration off to protest, but I expect you back under the…