Denver Post: Movies
- Film on the Rocks 2024 season released
Friday - 04/26/2024 - 08:00 AMFilm on the Rocks will screen “The Matrix,” “The Wizard of Oz” and other fantastical titles as part of its 25th anniversary year at Red Rocks Amphitheatre.
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Oh, and “Shrek.” - Colorado agency steps up to buy Stanley hotel after Arizona nonprofit sale falls through
Saturday - 04/06/2024 - 08:00 AMA deal for the state of Colorado to purchase the famous Stanley Hotel in Estes Park that inspired Stephen King’s “The Shining” is officially on the table.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - “Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire”: Chilling with friends old and new | Movie review
Thursday - 03/21/2024 - 09:12 AMMan, so many Ghostbusters to call.
In theaters this week, “Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire” is the follow-up to the largely enjoyable 2021 adventure “Ghostbusters: Afterlife.” The latter, which saw Jason Reitman — son of Ivan Reitman, director of 1984’s original “Ghostbusters” and its 1989 sequel, “Ghostbusters II” — at the helm, introduced a new generation of brave spirit-catching souls while also bringing back key legacy characters.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - ‘Oppenheimer’ crowned best picture at an Academy Awards shadowed by war
Sunday - 03/10/2024 - 12:00 AMBy JAKE COYLE (AP Film Writer)
LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Oppenheimer,” a solemn three-hour biopic that became an unlikely billion-dollar box-office sensation, was crowned best picture at a 96th Academy Awards that doubled as a coronation for Christopher Nolan.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Nick Swardson apologizes after getting booted from Beaver Creek stage; has Denver dates this week
Tuesday - 03/05/2024 - 12:50 PMComedian Nick Swardson is still set to perform in Aspen tonight, even after being escorted off stage in Beaver Creek over the weekend, following bizarre behavior during a set.
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Friday - 03/01/2024 - 09:22 AMKing Soopers / Cash 5
The next time you are shopping for groceries you might try your luck at winning big bucks through the Colorado Lottery’s Cash 5 game. The Colorado Lottery has partnered with King Soopers and City Market to bring its customers an extra opportunity at winning.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - “Drive-Away Dolls,” from Ethan Coen, a sex-forward, mostly fun romp | Movie review
Thursday - 02/22/2024 - 12:16 PM“Drive-Away Dolls” doesn’t expect you to take it too seriously.
Or, at least, the filmmakers behind it — the husband-and-wife team of director Ethan Coen and co-writer and -producer Tricia Cooke, who’s also credited as the movie’s editor — do not expect that.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Producer of “Get Out,” “The Purge” to collaborate with Stanley Film Center
Friday - 01/26/2024 - 03:54 PMIt inspired Stephen King’s haunted hotel in “The Shining.” Now, the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park will be able to build on its reputation for horror even more.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - What to do this weekend: Dine in the dark at The Fort; the art of Denver’s Northside
Thursday - 01/11/2024 - 08:00 AMThe Fort goes dark
Friday. “Of all of our senses, sight dominates how we perceive the world around us. Most of us live our daily lives not thinking how powerful our vision is, or how much we actually use our vision day to day.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Alamo Drafthouse employees to protest today in advance of Denver-area union drive
Tuesday - 01/02/2024 - 01:55 PMDozens of workers at the Westminster location of the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema chain are planning to unionize to combat what they allege are dangerous working conditions, low pay amid record profits, and firings related to union action and HR complaints, leaders said Tuesday.
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- What makes Denver theater audiences different? (Hint: It starts with a sense of humor)
Monday - 04/08/2024 - 08:00 AMAn Iranian son channels his mother — robes of lamé fabric and all. A high school student wrestles with parental and cultural expectations after her sister’s death. A murderer hides amid a boarding house full of suffragettes.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- ‘Monkey Man’ review: Patel impresses in front of, behind camera with revenge-fueled film
Friday - 04/05/2024 - 02:43 PMDev Patel clearly knew the comparisons to “John Wick” would be inescapable.
Thus, “Monkey Man,” his violent tale of a young man hell-bent on vengeance — inspired as much as anything, Patel says, by Korean action cinema — wisely namedrops the hit action flick starring Keanu Reeves that, to date, has spawned three sequels and a spin-off series.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - It’s never too late to fall in love with Star Wars
Monday - 03/18/2024 - 08:00 AMEditor’s note: This is part of The Know’s series, Staff Favorites. Each week, we offer our opinions on the best that Colorado has to offer for dining, shopping, entertainment, outdoor activities and more. We’ll also let you in on some hidden gems).
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - How Netflix survived the streaming wars to stay the subscription video king
Thursday - 03/07/2024 - 01:20 PMWendy Lee | Los Angeles Times (TNS)
LOS ANGELES — Four years ago, Netflix was faced with a formidable challenge to its dominance. Competitors including Walt Disney Co. and Warner Bros.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - ‘Dune: Part Two’ review: Sequel improves on first film’s grand formula
Friday - 03/01/2024 - 01:26 PMWhen your first movie is a hit, the studio tends to give you more cash to spend on the sequel.
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And when your film adapts what essentially is the second half of a book, it tends to be more exciting than the installment that came before it. - Newest “Dune” movie is a hit for Denver board-game maker
Thursday - 02/29/2024 - 08:00 AMIn “Dune: Part 2,” Paul Atreides (Timothée Chalamet) rallies the Fremen people against the oppressive House Harkonnen, leading to an epic clash that unites characters from across the galaxy that author Frank Herbert first visited in his 1965 science-fiction novel “Dune.”
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - The 12 lessons in love from the 2024 Sundance Film Festival
Friday - 02/02/2024 - 08:00 AM“Bad people aren’t as creative at being bad as good people are at being good.”
Artist Anya Stasenko offers this memorable — and, sadly, timely — statement in “Porcelain War,” directed by Slava Leontyev and Brendan Bellomo.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Norman Jewison dies: Acclaimed director of “In the Heat of the Night” and “Moonstruck” was 97
Monday - 01/22/2024 - 05:37 PMNEW YORK — Norman Jewison, the acclaimed and versatile Canadian-born director whose Hollywood films ranged from Doris Day comedies and “Moonstruck” to such social dramas as the Oscar-winning “In the Heat of the Night,” has died at age 97.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- The 17 movies we’re most excited about in 2024
Monday - 01/08/2024 - 03:45 PMLos Angeles Times Staff | (TNS) Los Angeles Times
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - What to do this weekend: 200 merry tubas, birthday beers, “Elf” and s’mores
Thursday - 12/14/2023 - 08:00 AMA jolly old Santa crawl
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- Outside Festival announces film lineup for new downtown Denver fest
Wednesday - 04/24/2024 - 01:43 PMA lineup of films highlighting diversity and inclusivity in the outdoor adventure realm has been assembled for a film festival which will be part of the inaugural Outside Festival coming to Civic Center in five weeks.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - 10 things to know about Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright August Wilson
Thursday - 04/04/2024 - 08:00 AMOn stage at the Aurora Fox Arts Center sits the house at 1839 Wylie Avenue in Pittsburgh’s polyglot Hill District. The year is 1904. In that slat-wooden home, its front door opens on a wide room where guests plop down for food but also for talk.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Denver’s historic Esquire Theatre will close this summer. What’s next for the building?
Wednesday - 03/20/2024 - 08:58 AMDenver’s 96-year-old Esquire Theatre will close this summer as exhibitor Landmark Theatres pulls out of its decades-long operation of the historic movie house.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - “Barbie” will be screened in Denver with a live orchestra playing the score
Wednesday - 03/06/2024 - 08:00 AMHey, Barbie! Your orchestra is here.
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Following the box-office success and critical acclaim of last year’s “Barbie” film adaptation — which will further be tested at the Academy Awards on Sunday — promoters at AEG Presents Rocky Mountains on Monday announced a Denver stop for “Barbie the Movie: In Concert.” - Colorado-set “Resident Alien” is Netflix’s newest hit TV show. Star Alan Tudyk thinks he knows why.
Tuesday - 03/05/2024 - 08:00 AMWhen the first two seasons of “Resident Alien” premiered on Netflix on Feb. 13, star Alan Tudyk could only guess at how audiences would react.
“We’ve always been on Syfy and it’s been great, but the pandemic and the writer’s strike really changed the way shows are being released,” he said of the sci-fi TV series, which is set in the fictional Colorado mountain town of Patience.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - In light of Alexie Navalny’s death, Colorado producer revisits Oscar-winning documentary
Friday - 02/23/2024 - 08:00 AMIn a scene from the 2022 documentary “Navalny,” Russian dissident Alexie Navalny’s oldest daughter, Dasha, recalls that when she was 13, she began thinking about her father dying. As she speaks, she apologizes for getting teary.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share
- Valentine’s Day movie guide: We rate 4 Netflix rom-coms
Friday - 02/09/2024 - 04:08 PMBy Moira Macdonald, The Seattle Times
Valentine’s Day is soon upon us, which means we’re all in need of some cheery Netflix rom-coms in which very attractive and well-dressed people have romantic crises in cute apartments, right?More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Denver Film award-winner “All of Us Strangers” becoming audience, critic darling
Friday - 01/19/2024 - 08:00 AM“All of Us Strangers” may well be one of the most luminous ghost stories to have ever graced the big screen. Not that a viewer is always sure that the love story — romantic and familial — is, in fact, a ghost story.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - ‘Mean Girls’ review: Musical adaptation retains irreverent fun of 2004 flick
Wednesday - 01/10/2024 - 03:37 PMKnowing that the movie adaptation of the stage musical version of “Mean Girls” — a song-infused, Tony Award-nominated take on the 2004 teen-movie favorite that made its Broadway debut in 2018 — originally was planned to debut on Paramount+ before being moved to a theatrical release this week, the worry was it would be what we might call a “streaming-quality” affair.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Things to do this weekend: Sex-positive comedy, a Middle-Earth movie marathon
Thursday - 12/28/2023 - 08:00 AMNikki Glaser’s naughty NYE laughs
Saturday-Sunday. Comic, writer and podcast/reality TV host Nikki Glaser isn’t just a sex-positive anthropologist — although she’s most certainly that — she’s also a veteran of Comedy Central’s Celebrity Roasts.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share