Entertainment

Holy Frenchman, Batman

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There’s a moment in Holy Motors when Monsieur Merde, a dirty leprechaun-looking man in a tattered green suit with scraggly red hair, approaches the fringes of a high-fashion photo shoot. The photographer is grunting, “Beauty, beauty!” with perverse glee at his model...

Diabetes: the real monster

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Hansel (Jeremy Renner) has diabetes. This is not a throwaway character trait, not a bit of bizarre nuance in a quasi-steampunk re-imagining of a Grimm fairy tale. The fact that Hansel must stop combating the forces of darkness whenever his wrist-alarm-thingie goes ...

Reel to reel | Week of February 7, 2013

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AMELIE...

Not so endless love

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When the Museum of Broken Relationships put out a press release in November announcing an upcoming exhibition in Boulder, it began with a question: Do happy people break up too...

Dictation from oblivion

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Over the past 10-and-a-half years, I have seen numerous theater companies rise and fall in Boulder. While perennial favorites like Boulder’s Dinner Theatre have triumphed year in and year out, other companies have sprouted, blossomed, withered and died. Staying power...

Interview: David France of ‘How to Survive a Plague’

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For filmmaker David France, the AIDS epidemic of the 1980s needs a lot more films like his How to Survive a Plague...

Scotland sojourn: Pro Musica Colorado retraces Mendelssohn’s misty journey

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"It’s really amazing to me how atmospheric this wonderful composition is...

Wonder Woman versus chauvinism

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In many ways, the comic book character Wonder Woman is very much a product of the time in which she was conceived — World War II America...

Check out some hot briefs

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Outside of the unspeakable fame and groupies, the best part of being a movie critic is getting a peek at stuff you may otherwise never see. One of my favorite annual traditions is checking out what the Academy felt were little films worthy of a little guy made of ...

Legal briefs and legal drama

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Jeanne Winer and Rachel Stein share a common worldview. Adrenaline junkies as well as staunch feminists, they both grapple with “spiritual tantrums” in their compulsive pursuit of justice. Though these women rally against the world, they are always searching for a ...

Jesus, Mary and Rudy

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Going to the theatre comes with a certain level of risk, and no, I’m not referring to the extremely off chance of being steered into a life of flying rodent-themed superherodom due to the untimely murder of your parents after a performance of Die Fledermaus. Theater ...