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Festing: SDFF37, Nov. 13
In addition to not having had a chance to catch up with any of the red-carpet films prior to their screening at the 37th Starz Denver Film Festival, I’ve always been interested in giving a glimpse...
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Festing: SDFF37, Friday, Nov. 14
I will admit to being somewhat ill-prepared to talk about the slate of films showing Friday, Nov. 14, at the 37th Starz Denver Film Festival. As the festival heads into its big weekend, I can only...
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Festing: SDFF37, “Imber’s Left Hand”
If there was one thing that truly captured the American attention over the course of the past year — more so than the fleeting scandals in pro sports, social media memes or the zeitgeist TV shows and...
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Friendship, different strokes highlight ‘Touch the Wall’
The Colorado-centric documentary “Touch the Wall,” which premiered at November’s Starz Denver Film Festival and opened this past week at the Sie FilmCenter in Denver, is a study in contrasts, if...
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Fracking, God and charity: A man and a nation seek answers in “The Overnighters”
Along the Highway 85 corridor in Adams and Weld counties, folks have some sense of what happened in Williston, N.D., when the oil boom took hold. Stop by any hotel in the area on any given day, the...
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“Imitation Game” typifies the safe and tidy Oscar contender
The awards season thrives on the promise of tidy yet dramatic works such as “The Imitation Game.” They require winning a sort of Oscar-bait Bingo, usually consisting of aligning a true story, a period...
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‘Foxcatcher’ toys with history, but nails quiet, strong recounting of...
The trajectory of “Foxcatcher” seems inevitable, and director Bennett Miller doesn’t miss an opportunity to prepare viewers for what transpires between troubled millionaire John du Pont (Steve Carell)...
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PTA living up to Altman-esque ideal with masterful “Inherent Vice”
Paul Thomas Anderson’s “Inherent Vice” exists directly above a great California fault line. Operating full of archetypes of classic noir – a free-wheelin’ private eye, an overzealous cop, and any...
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Oyelowo delivers year’s-best performance in focused, powerful “Selma”
Great movies have their eyes on the prize from the start. “Selma” is no exception. The film, a historical drama about the civil rights movement in the, opens on Coretta Scott King (Carmen Ejobo) and...
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“Most Violent Year” tests how long a man can go before going gangster
“A Most Violent Year,” J.C. Chandor’s final film in his Rich Folks Trilogy, is a markedly enjoyable ride until it starts to beat its message into the viewer like a Brooklyn hoodlum getting...
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