Entertainment
Restless leg syndrome
Feel free to call director Steven Soderbergh’s latest film (and potentially last, if you believe his retirement threats) a wacky mallard because it is one odd duck. If a Hitchcock movie took a Dateline NBC segment behind the art house theater and got it pregnant, ...
Rapper and actor Heavy D dies at 44
LOS ANGELES — Rapper and actor Heavy D, who played an...
‘That still quiet place’
Sisterhood can be a superpower. Just ask Natalie and younger twin siblings Allie and Meegan, who together make up indie-pop trio Joseph. For the...
Flaming Lips releasing new song with running time of six hours
LOS ANGELES — Want to hear the new song from the Flaming Lips? Better put in for a day off from work or school to check it out...
Genre jumper
Afronauts bassist Eric Keeney is a self-proclaimed music geek. For much of his life as a musician, he played in bands that cater to music geeks — complex and technically impressive, but not necessarily conducive to an all-night dance party. That all changed, however...
Indecent bro-posal
That’s My Boy isn’t just so bad that you would rather play a fun game of “scratch my retina with chicken wire” for 90 minutes, it’s so bad that writer David Caspe and director Sean Anders should be legally prosecuted for crimes against humanity. If this is what we’re...
Winner of the Grand Jury Prize in Documentary at the Sundance...
A penetrating look at death and dying, How to Die in Oregon is an HBO-produced documentary that explores the lives of people suffering from debilitating terminal illness. Oregon was the first state in the nation to legalize physician-assisted suicide in 1994, and, ...
Swing and a miss
Dame Helen Mirren as a toughtalking Nevada brothel madam? We like to think our finest screen performers can play anyone. Mirren, whose career has encompassed the full spectrum of human behavior, from queens to gangster’s molls, is fully capable of tackling a ...
A tale of parked cars, cows and bad puns
It’s unlikely that Planet Bluegrass head honcho Craig Ferguson is going to start wearing a 10-gallon hat and pointy boots any time soon or...
Like a Joss
This was going to be a rabid, frothing defense of the superhero genre, complete with impassioned pleas that appealed to cinematic intellectuals who are apt to dismiss such films. But Tom Hiddleston, who ironically plays the evil Loki in The Avengers, got there first...
Theater | Week of September 3, 2015
Book of Mormon. Denver Performing Arts Complex, 1345 Champa St., Denver, 720-865-4239, Through Sept. 13...
