Entertainment
Under the cover of pop
Sometime in 2016, Destroyer’s Dan Bejar found out that the original name for “The Wild Ones,” a song from English rock band Suede’s 1994...
No joke
If you’re a millennial of a certain age and persuasion, the unhinged anti-comedy of Tim Heidecker has likely shaped your cerebral cortex into knots...
All refrain
Fact: It’s harder to make people laugh than cry. Fact: It’s harder to make someone laugh a second time than the first. Conclusion: Comedy sequels are the hardest sequels to make satisfying...
Just a kiss
Putting on a play is one complicated proposition. Think about how difficult it is to coordinate with a small handful of your friends for a Saturday night jaunt to Pearl Street or (gasp!) Denver and you immediately get the idea. A director must choose a play, and ...
‘Body and soul’
Even if you don’t recognize Ruth Brown’s name, chances are you know her voice. Dubbed the “Queen of R&B,” the legendary singer incorporated pop-music...
Descend into the particular
Truth is one, but the sages speak of it by many names. —The Rig Veda
The Two Popes, one of the most anticipated movies of...
See the Robocop remake that won’t be opening in theaters next...
Though there was absolutely no need to remake the dystopic Paul Verhoeven classic, Robocop, because it remains objectively a frame for frame perfect film, someone in Hollywood thought it needed a slick CGI-fueled reboot...
Roots and wings, shadows and light
On his way back from his honeymoon on Vancouver Island in 2018, Antonio Lopez picked up a copy of the “local alternative rag,” The...
What’s not to love?
Love. It can be exciting and new, welcoming you aboard, even expecting you. It can be life’s sweetest reward, an open smile on a...
Gibson, DiCaprio are planning a Vikings film
LOS ANGELES — Last fall, Leonardo DiCaprio and Mel Gibson...
Boring vampire sex
The fourth film in the Twilight series, Breaking Dawn: Part 1 reveals a flash or two of real filmmaking (mostly in a suggestively grotesque birthing sequence), enough to save it from pure lousiness...

















