By Gregory Wakeman - May 6, 2024

Let’s get physical

It’s been nearly two decades since Jessica Rothe called the Front Range home, but the prolific screen actor says she’ll always be “a homegrown Colorado girl.” Like her parents, Rothe...

By Michael J. Casey - May 1, 2024

Dirty talk

A letter has arrived at the Swan residence, a despicable letter riddled with obscenities and sexual vulgarity. It’s the 19th of its kind, and each one has scandalized dear old...

By Gregory Wakeman - May 1, 2024

Open and shutter

Jennifer Takaki’s path to directing Photographic Justice: The Corky Lee Story began with a chance meeting in New York City back in 2003.  “It was a very random moment,” the...

By Michael J. Casey - Apr. 24, 2024

‘To build a better world’

It was 30 years ago this April that Turner Classic Movies (TCM) first signed on the air. Truly, it wasn’t that big of a deal then: AMC still stood for...

By Gregory Wakeman - Apr. 16, 2024

Going ape

Something strange is stirring in the wilderness. But unlike the devoted cryptid enthusiasts of reality shows like Finding Bigfoot, you won’t have to camp out in remote reaches of the...

By Michael J. Casey - Apr. 16, 2024

Tennis, anyone?

Within every game, there’s a second game playing out inside the first. We can’t always see it, but it’s often much more significant than the one we’re watching. This is...

By Gregory Wakeman - Apr. 10, 2024

Press pass

When a teenage Melissa Benoist found herself facing graduation at Arapahoe High School in Littleton, the longtime performer had a hard time shaking the naysayers.  “There was a moment where...

By Michael J. Casey - Apr. 10, 2024

Separation anxiety

What are you boys fighting for?  That’s the question writer-historian Shelby Foote tries to answer in Ken Burns’ landmark 1990 documentary The Civil War. Foote finds it in the story...

By Michael J. Casey - Apr. 3, 2024

Watching out loud

It happens every year: “We find something absolutely amazing, totally amazing, in the films. It’s not there, but we find it.” So said the late film critic Roger Ebert of...

By Gregory Wakeman - Apr. 3, 2024

Should’ve been a cowboy

As soon as John Carroll Lynch started acting as a teenager, it’s been serious business. Looking back on his performances at the Regis Jesuit High School in Denver, the Boulder-born...

By Michael J. Casey - Mar. 27, 2024

The misanthrope

Midway through his life, Samet (Deniz Celiloğlu) looks around and sees nothing he likes. Originally from Istanbul, he obliges his mandatory teaching service in this remote village of perpetual winter...

By Michael J. Casey - Mar. 19, 2024

Toy story

Alejandro dreams of toys. Not crazy, outrageous toys or toys that bring excitement and pleasure, but pensive, melancholy toys reminding kids that time is finite and our actions meaningless. There’s...

By Gregory Wakeman - Mar. 19, 2024

Mob rule

When Christopher B. Duncan was offered the role of Blaze, a new character in the ongoing third season of Black Mafia Family (BMF), he hadn’t seen a single episode of...

By Michael J. Casey - Mar. 12, 2024

Blood simple

It started as love but it ended with a body in the desert. Sometimes, that’s how these things go. But one look at the small New Mexico town where Loves...

By Gregory Wakeman - Mar. 6, 2024

Space is the place

When renowned documentarian and filmmaker Gabriela Cowperthwaite was initially approached about directing the sci-thriller I.S.S., she didn’t know anything about the International Space Station. But that’s exactly what attracted her...

By Michael J. Casey - Mar. 6, 2024

Stillness is a move

She makes the bed. She peels and boils the potatoes. She prepares the coffee and drinks milk. She cleans the small apartment she shares with her son. She takes a...

By Michael J. Casey - Feb. 28, 2024

Spice world

You know he’s the one because he’s a movie star with piercing eyes, floppy hair, goth vulnerability and untapped strength all in one. He’s Prince Hal making good. His name...

By Michael J. Casey - Feb. 20, 2024

Tomorrow’s hits, today

When the lights dim and a hush falls over the audience at the Cinemark Century Boulder on Feb. 29, the Boulder International Film Festival (BIFF) will open for the 20th...