Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the timeless cautionary tale of man meddling with nature and forbidden knowledge, has seen countless adaptations in just about every conceivable medium. Now, one of its best incarnations is coming to the Denver Film Society: the National Theatre’s award-winning staging, directed by Danny Boyle (28 Days Later,…
People go to horror movies to enjoy the mayhem on screen without ever experiencing any real danger. That makes Lamberto Bava’s splatter classic Demons, which features a group of horror devotees whose trip to the movies becomes an all-too-real fight for survival, the perfect cautionary tale. “It’s a fun little…
If you aren’t watching Archer, you are missing out on television’s best comedy. The animated spy spoof — think Austin Powers, minus that franchise’s fundamental stupidity and tendency to recycle its best jokes until they are painfully unfunny — brings a lot to the table. The cast is excellent, with…
Some novels take a while to get going, and some give you an immortal dwarf, a time-traveling corpse and an alchemical mystery before the end of the first chapter, like City of Lost Dreams does. The followup to the best-selling City of Dark Magic finds protagonist Sarah Weston in an…
Some novels take a while to get going, and some give you an immortal dwarf, a time-traveling corpse and an alchemical mystery before the end of the first chapter, like City of Lost Dreams does. The followup to the best-selling City of Dark Magic finds protagonist Sarah Weston in an…
Some novels take a while to get going, and some give you an immortal dwarf, a time-traveling corpse and an alchemical mystery before the end of the first chapter, as City of Lost Dreams does. The follow-up to the best-selling City of Dark Magic finds protagonist Sarah Weston in an…
Watch a handful of superhero movies, or read the comics they’re based on, and you realize that all superheroes have an origin story. Geeks are no different. We all have our own origin stories. This is mine. See also: We are geeks; we are stoners…
The original Neon Genesis Evangelion represented the pinnacle of the giant-robot-versus-alien-monster subgenre of anime. Like so many other successful franchises, that timeless tale of a young man tasked with averting the Apocalypse by piloting a big robot is in the midst of a shiny new reboot. The latest film, Evangelion:…
For years, Keith Garcia’s Watching Hour series brought everything from forgotten classics of the VHS era to the newest underground horror and science fiction to adventurous film fans in Denver. That ended when Garcia left the Denver Film Society to take the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema’s creative manager position, leaving a…
I had never seen so many people so happy to stand in line for two and a half hours. When I arrived at the Northern Lights Cannabis Company, just across from Sloan’s Lake in Edgewater, around 2:45 p.m. on New Year’s Day, I found about 100 people there ahead of…
You hear a lot of stereotypes about geeks. We get pigeonholed as pasty, overweight, socially awkward virgins pretty often. It’s not uncommon for us to be labeled bookish, fashion-challenged, or even just as losers. What you don’t often hear us stereotyped as is stoners. Well, that’s bullshit. I’ve known a…
No matter where you woke up on New Year’s Day — disheveled, hung over and with holes in your memory — it could have been much worse. Don’t believe it? Consider the plight of the protagonist of Open Grave, who wakes up in a pit of dead bodies with absolutely…
Any new year that brings with it a slate of new geek activities is a happy new year, and this one does. In between trips to the gym to fulfill your resolutions, you won’t lack for things to do. Even after you give up on the gym mid-month, you won’t…
The clock is ticking on 2013. In less than a week, we’ll be closing the door on yet another trip around the sun, and embracing the greatest of all arbitrary calendar events, the new year. That means it’s time for that greatest of arbitrary life events: resolutions! No new year…
Live music and film are strange bedfellows in the modern age, but it wasn’t always so. In the silent era, a live accompaniment was standard practice for all films. Local musician and filmmaker Paul Buscarello is resurrecting that long-gone experience with a performance of his new, original score for the…
Live music and film are strange bedfellows in the modern age, but it wasn’t always that way. In the silent era, a live accompaniment was standard practice for all films. Today, local musician and filmmaker Paul Buscarello will resurrect that long-gone experience with a performance of his new, original score…
Some films are made to be watched, others need to be experienced — and then there are those movies that just need to be ridiculed and ripped apart. Close out the year with a gem from that last category, at Mile High Sci-Fi: White House Down. As Channing Tatum and…
As 2013 winds to a close, I can’t say I’m sorry to see it go. Not because it was a particularly bad year, though. Just the opposite: 2013 was the first year in a long time that wasn’t marked by some kind of personal tragedy. It was a year of…
In less than two weeks, 2013 will come to a close. That means it’s time for that most joyous of traditions — the year-end list! Everywhere you turn, lists of the best, the worst, the most and the least are springing up, informing you about all the cool shit that…
Over the years, Brian Polk has learned that being a loudmouth isn’t always the best way to incite change. “We’re all a little bit older, and the machine has won — kind of,” laments Polk, the man behind Suspect Press, a new zine celebrating its release tonight at the Deer…
Any casual Star Wars fan can tell you that the Force has a light side and a dark side. This weekend, the Denver Film Society is illustrating that split with two very different Star Wars films. Tonight, see the light side in 5-25-77, a film about a young fan who…
Tucked away in the wealth of holiday programming at the Alamo Drafthouse this week are two linked films with very different takes on the season. One, A Christmas Story, is an almost universally beloved seasonal classic, filled with nostalgia, warm fuzzies and just enough edge to keep it from getting…
