Entertainment
Theater | Week of June 26, 2014
Shrek the Musical. Boulder’s Dinner Theatre, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-449-6000. Through Sept. 6...
I hate myself and I want to scream
Laney Brooks (Sarah Silverman) has problems. She tells her husband ( Josh Charles) that she doesn’t want her children to have a dog because they will fall in love with the dog, causing them to be devastated when it eventually dies. Since things die, why bother loving...
Ushering in a great era film
Last weekend in an epic mix-up of Steve Harvey proportions, underdog Moonlight triumphed over the season’s darling La La Land to win best picture...
On agents and agency
Melissa McCarthy is immensely talented, armed with a stunning repertoire of acting skills. So, of course, Hollywood sees her and claps its collective hands together, yelling “Make the funny lady fall down again!” Spy is writer/director (and frequent McCarthy ...
Better living through cinema
From March 9 to 19, the Boulder Jewish Film Festival will screen over 20 different films of various lengths with subjects of inclusion, diversity...
Barrie’s back
Just to make sure we’re all on the same page, the title of this review in no way implies that Boulder’s Dinner Theatre’s Peter Pan somehow manages to incorporate references to the medical marijuana dispensaries that have cropped up (heh, heh) on seemingly every other...
Found Sounds: Feb. 23, 2023
Looking to break free of the Spotify algorithm? Check out the latest round-up of bestselling new vinyl releases from Paradise Found Records and Music...
Kanye West to premiere new short film at Cannes Film Festival
Part of Kanye West’s greatness lies in his ability to stand in two...
Badly thought out film adaptations, nevermore
Edgar Allan Poe introduced his 1840s readership to a new kind of fiction: detective novels. In his dark, twisted and often macabre stories, criminals committed crimes and were brought to justice by an officer of the law. But while his stories, including "The Cask of ...
A drama in thriller drag
To quote Public Enemy, “Don’t believe the hype.” To paraphrase the Dead Milkmen, I’m not saying that The Other Place isn’t a good play. It’s a fine play, an all-American play full of good, upstanding people. It’s just that it, like the residents of the trailer park ...
