Review: Spend a Night With the Jerome Family at Miners Alley’s Broadway Bound
Miners Alley is presenting Broadway Bound, the third play in Neil Simon’s trilogy about the Jerome family.
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Review: Downshifting Shows Less Is More at RedLine
There’s an unbelievably ambitious exhibition with an unbelievably short run at RedLine right now: Downshifting, which was curated by Ramón Bonilla, a RedLine resident. Bonilla was interested in highlighting the international trend of reductive art, which is art that employs some kind of less-is-more approach.
Amat Escalante’s The Untamed Finds the Humanity in Hooking Up With Alien Sex Beasts
At a crater in the lush, mossy-green Mexican countryside in Amat Escalante’s fourth feature, The Untamed, every native species of animal gathers to fuck, like a pornographic Noah’s Ark. This scene of otherworldly magical realism is not what audiences have come to expect from the director, whose most well-known film,…
The 21 Best Events in Denver, July 18-24
It may not be April, but Denver can celebrate 4/20 anytime it wants to. Take, for example, the 420 Games, which take place on July 22. Don’t miss plenty of more action on this week’s event’s calendar, including outdoor movie screenings, art shows aplenty, and some axe throwing. Tuesday, July…
Visually, Valerian Is Beyond Dazzling — Just Don’t Think About Story or Character
It must be nice being Luc Besson, stuck at the age of 14 for the past 44 years. Back when I was that age, in the late 1980s, Besson was among my favorite working filmmakers. I adored the earnest wonder of the deep-sea worlds of The Big Blue (1988) and…
Denver City Council Approves Long-Discussed Safe Occupancy Program
At their July 17 meeting, Denver City Council members voted unanimously to approve the Safe Occupancy Program, a conditional building occupancy program for unpermitted spaces designed to ensure safety while also limiting displacement; it will be overseen by Denver Community Planning and Development (CPD) and the Denver Fire Department. In the wake…
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Sisterhood Is Powerful — and Pugnacious — in Girls Trip
Truth in advertising: Girls trip hard during their New Orleans getaway in Girls Trip, which maybe doesn’t need that possessive apostrophe after all. Malcolm D. Lee’s comedy, written by Kenya Barris and Tracy Oliver — the same creative team behind last year’s uneven Barbershop: The Next Cut — pops with…
YA Author Colleen Oakes on Giving Peter Pan a Feminist Twist
Colorado author Colleen Oakes’ Wendy Darling series introduces a Peter Pan that’s a far cry from the impish cartoon you know from Disney.
Review: Phamaly Cast Is Ready, Willing and Very Able in Annie
Life and art are inseparable for the members of Phamaly, the first theater company in the country whose members all have some kind of physical ailment, and they show it in Annie.
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See What You Missed on Another Hot Weekend in Denver
In summer, Denver’s calendar is so packed you can’t begin to hit all the festivals, markets, parties and celebrations around town. So this past weekend, we did it all for you. Keep reading for a look at four events in Denver we visited July 14 through July 16, with links…
Mario Bava’s Kill, Baby, Kill Remains a Superb Psych-Gothic Freakout
A new restoration brightens the corners of Mario Bava’s superb gothic 1966 freakout, crisply rendering each open grave, rotting skull, Limeade cobweb and tendril of swirling mist. As always in the films of the Italian horror master, death grooves in Day-Glo moodscapes, with Bava’s restless camera snaking through crypts and…
Dunkirk Is the Movie Christopher Nolan Was Born to Make
The nerve-racking war thriller Dunkirk is the movie Christopher Nolan’s entire career has been building up to, in ways that even he may not have realized. He’s taken the British Expeditionary Force’s 1940 evacuation from France, early in World War II — a moment of heroism-in-defeat that has become an…
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Insecure Offers TV’s Sharpest Insights on Race but Refuses to Limit Itself to That Subject
Insecure returns July 23 on HBO No moment captures the elations of HBO’s Insecure better than the opening scene of the sophomore season’s second episode. The morning after sleeping with her ex-boyfriend, Issa (Issa Rae) recounts her confusion about the abrupt quickie to her snappish best friend, Molly (Yvonne Orji)…
Bateman and Linney Break Bad in Netflix’s Backwoods Crime Drama Ozark
Ozark premieres on Netflix July 21 When Skyler White challenged her husband’s secret fun life of crime on Breaking Bad, the backlash to her drove Anna Gunn to write an op-ed in The New York Times. Gunn revealed that a number of disturbing “hate boards” had often conflated her with…
Eight Awesome Places Denver Bikers Should Know About
Denver is a biker’s town. The city’s full of bike lanes and trails, mountain bikers need not drive for hours to tear up single track, and for people looking for a tuneup or a new ride, there are endless shops with competent mechanics – even coffee and gourmet chocolates.
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David Lowery’s A Ghost Story Gets Lost in Time and Space
“Every love story is a ghost story,” David Foster Wallace wrote, more than once. That evocative observation is probed in David Lowery’s A Ghost Story, a film that occasionally reaches a similar level of eloquence. Lowery’s fourth feature reunites Rooney Mara and Casey Affleck, the leads of his second, the…
Heather MacKenzie Launches Bold Betties Lecture Series to Empower Women
Denver-based business Bold Betties wants to empower and encourage women, not just in the great outdoors but in all aspects of life, through a new speaker series, the Road Less Traveled. On July 20 at 6 p.m., the company’s first speaker, Heather MacKenzie, will share how her experience with sexual harassment at her former high-profile company taught her about resilience and seizing onto hard-sought silver linings.
Free for All: The Five Best Free Events in Denver This Week
Sweaty locals refuse to allow the heat to defeat them at this point in the summer. Luckily, for adventurous entertainment seekers, delights abound all around town this week.
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Reader: Creative Dreams Never Die, They Just Transform Into Other Forms
Artists and arts groups are being priced out of Denver, and for a while they found hope in Concept, an art-space project that longtime artist/developer Jeanie Nuanes King had planned for eleven empty acres in Commerce City. But now she’s pulled the plug.
Twelve Things to Do During Denver Design Week 2017
Denver Design Week aims to give a platform to speakers from all design disciplines, bringing innovation and design-speak to the public through a series of tours, panel discussions, presentations and parties.
Rape Choreography Makes Films Safer, but Still Takes a Toll on Cast and Crew
From Game of Thrones to The Handmaid’s Tale, narratives of sexual assault have become particularly common in film and TV lately. But rarely do we think about the filmmakers, actors and crew who make on-screen rapes happen. How do they feel? Are they tired of rape scenes? Or could portraying rape could actually be a positive thing?
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City Agrees to Amend Safe Occupancy Program Proposal
After more than seven months of discussion, the city presented its Safe Occupancy Program proposal for DIY spaces and other unpermitted facilities at the Denver City Council meeting on Monday, July 10. And already, amendments have been proposed.