This week’s show was dedicated to the victims of Hurricane Sandy on the east coast, spotlighting bands from the NY area, including Moon Furies, Oberhofer, Ugly Duckling and Young Magic, along with letting fans know about their live gigs here in the U.S. and the U.K.
The one thing that a film fanatic can expect from the Starz Denver Film Festival 35 (SDFF) is the unexpected, to be taken through a journey to unknown territories when the lights go down. The array of films is expansive, and this past week SDFF gave us a glimpse of what’s in store for 2012, […]
The divorce rate in this country is over 50%. If only those who settled, who scarified themselves for the life of marital bliss, had a spiritual or universe-related intervention that Johnny Rizzo (Max Baker) experienced, the pain, years and cost of those marital mistakes could have been avoided.
I have been a fan of John Carrey for some time, and after a few hits and misses over the past few years, “I Love You Phillip Morris” feels to have restored him back to comedic glory with Ewan McGregor as the perfect accomplice in this hilarious story.
The day after the 2010 elections, CNN Money posted a telling story, “Final nail in coffin for Net neutrality?” With more GOP in Congress, the threat of cable companies using their corporate influence in the form of lobby dollars to control our access to online content could become a reality. Yes. Control our access to […]
“This is like in Colorado where they build developments and suddenly people are being eaten by mountain lions.” This quote is from the beginning of “Echotone,” a documentary that spotlights the conflict between art and commerce, between musicians who have lived and worked in downtown Austin for years and the rise of residential dwellers, i.e. […]
If we need to be hit over the head again with a dead fish that’s consumed its weight in plastic bits, this is the movie to do it. “Bag It,” directed by Suzan Beraza and narrated by Jeb Berrier, puts a spotlight on one habit that needs to go – our overuse of plastics and […]
Playing at the Starz Denver Film Festival 2010, “Blue Valentine,” directed by Derek Cianfrance (a University of Colorado graduate), is one of those films that give you the feeling, sometimes an uncomfortable one, that you’re in the room eavesdropping in on the intense conversation taking place between the two people on the screen.
It was an era that will never repeat. It was New York City in the ’70s, when creativity rose from the ashes of the East Village and the Bowery in the form of music, film, and art, stripped down and true to life to the point that one filmmaker was detained by police at the […]
Starz Denver Film Festival 2009 Picks – November 12 – 22 The 32nd Annual Starz Denver Film Festival (SDFF) kicked off last night to a sellout crowd at Ellie Caulkins. Having arrived right at 7:30pm, I found one of the last seats left in the nose bleed section to see the highly provocative film, “Precious: […]
