Screen
Food as culture, food as language
It would be low-hanging fruit to open this column with a declaration along the lines of: “The Flatirons Food Film Festival returns for a...
The kid in the bird
There is one thing you never do on Sesame Street and that is put someone down...
Comedians sleep standing up
A note for the admittedly small subset of folks who swoon at the storytelling magic of This American Life and tingle at the mere mention of Ira Glass’s name: Sleepwalk with Me is charming public radio entertainment channeled into cinemas. Watch out Hollywood ...
Me and my pal Adolf
Jojo (Roman Griffin
Davis) is a good little Nazi. Jojo’s only 10 years old, but his brown shirt is
spiffy, his red arm badge is on...
‘Life is no way to treat an animal.’
The 42nd Denver Film
Festival (DFF) concludes Nov. 10, but there are still plenty of movies to see.
Here are three not to be missed.
Directed...
Light on bananas
In spurts, Kong: Skull Island is the whacked-out, gleeful nonsense director Jordan Vogt-Roberts clearly longed to make. Straight-jacketed by a studio determined to craft...
A slice of ‘Ninja’
The extraordinarily violent Ninja Assassin opens with a tough guy Yakuza gang leader having a tattoo inked on his back by a mysterious old man who talks about the four noble professions, the five rings, and other cliché Japanese cultural mumbo-jumbo. A henchman ...
Game theory
We’re only a couple months into the new year, but The Last of Us looks destined to be one of the most talked-about shows...

















