With the winding down of the 4th Annual Mile High Horror Film Festival, I decided to start my Sunday off by viewing the movie Septic Man. Big mistake. It didn’t have the horrific speci... Read more
It takes a lot to make a crowd scream, yell, and laugh in a theater nowadays. It’s almost like there is an air of jadedness in the crowd before a hyped-up movie. I normally go into a m... Read more
I enjoyed the first film Ralph Fiennes directed, Coriolanus (read my review here). It wasn’t particularly impressive, but it was a solid first effort that was right up Fiennes’... Read more
It’s been about four years since Spike Jonze has released a feature length film and this time he’s coming in with a powerhouse cast for his new romantic drama, simply titled Her. Set in L.A.... Read more
Alexander Payne is far from a perfect filmmaker — count me among those who think his last film, The Descendants, was solid, but overrated — but there are few directors who can ma... Read more
All is Lost is not a movie for everyone. For one thing, roughly 95% of the film’s dialogue occurs in the first two minutes of the film. Additionally, there is only a single actor (the... Read more
Just a single scene of 12 Years a Slave makes more of a statement on America’s struggle with its racial history than the entirety of Lee Daniels’ The Butler. By that I don... Read more
I’m curious if writer/director James Gray really couldn’t come up with a less generic title for his latest film than The Immigrant. I’d hate to be on the marketing team tr... Read more
Good evening from Denver! Two nights ago I was the opening of the 4th Annual Mile High Horror Film Festival in Denver, Colorado. Side note: a big thank you to The Alamo Drafthouse for hosti... Read more
One of my favorite film events I have ever covered was this year’s inaugural First Time Fest, which was a film festival made up of films from first-time writers and directors. It also... Read more
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