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Downhill

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Lyz Lopez started skiing when she was 4. Who knows what first drew her to the sport, but 11 years on the slopes have...

Part of me, part of you

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The women are on the run. One is a sheltered housewife married to a pig of a man. The other is a waitress hiding...

Rollin’ with the Veep

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As the old saying goes: Hindsight is 20-20. But therein lies the trap, the notion that since we can see the past clearly, we...

Whirl fools

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Imagine watching Star Wars and deciding the franchise should forever forward follow C-3PO. And that C-3PO was played by a former hunk who now...

Spy of fortune

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Actors so rarely get paid to sit still. This week at the movies, as Tom Cruise is on Imax screens playing a frantic, hamster-like intelligence gatherer in the new Mission: Impossible movie, we have also a superb adaptation of the John le Carre spy novel Tinker, ...

Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry

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Tuesday. March 11: Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry. 7:30 p.m. Muenzinger Auditorium, Boulder, 303-492-1531...

reel to reel | Week of July 7, 2011

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Africa United...

Define ‘run’

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At this point, there is just one Liam Neeson movie: Taken a Non-Stop Run All Night to Walk Among the Tombstones 3. Neeson isn’t in the midst of some Nicolas Cage supernova, in which an actor’s need to perpetually work and “get dat paper” creates an acting black hole ...

Decoding the Master

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By its very nature, cinema is a collaborative art. As Orson Welles said, “A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.” To whom then does a movie belong? In his 1954 essay, “A certain tendency in French cinema,” the young critic, ...

UFO snark

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Most modern comedies end up being so stupid that it’s painful to watch the actors embarrass themselves on the big screen. That’s why it’s a pleasure to see comic team Simon Pegg and Nick Frost skewer the alien conspiracy genre in the consistently funny Paul...

All I need to get by

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There weren’t any crowds in Park City, Utah, and the big studios may have stayed away, but the 2021 Sundance Film Festival proved that...

‘A picture with a smile — and perhaps, a tear’

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Like it or not, artists change. Though we wish to preserve them in amber, those we hold near and dear grow into individuals that...