For most people, a rug that’s been tossed awry wouldn’t spark inspiration, but for Nolan Brumbach, Jay LeCavalier, Jayce Haley, Finn Stowers and Thayer Rexton "Rex" Stowers II, it’s the name of their...

Movie plots are like cakes; they have layers. Unless, of course, the movie is Bong Joon-ho’s “Parasite,” in which case it’s still a cake, but it's more like a funnel cake. The story isn’t a...

There is no artistic medium more liberating than animation. It’s unrestrained by time, space, logic and any and all physical possibility. It's free to morph, explore and experiment with the world however...

Students who went through midterms certainly deserved a night to vibe out, and for a bunch of guys from Minnesota, the band Hippo Campus definitely did the trick. The indie-alternative band performed...

The Denver Film Festival offered some of the year's most impactful, thought-provoking, infuriating and provocative films. Here is a dissection of some of the best. “Frances Ferguson” Going to the...

If Taika Waititi's "JoJo Rabbit" wasn’t supposed to be a satire, it would probably be a good movie. The film itself is a sheer delight– a funny, charming, absurd journey through the Third Reich with...

Movie theaters are like zoos. There is no other location in the modern world where mankind's nature is put on such a stark, unmediated display — save perhaps for a toilet stall or an Osbourne family...

Many consider silence a staple of proper cinema etiquette. Those people have never been to a Warren Miller film premier.  "Timeless" stopped in Fort Collins last week in the midst of its national premier...

For those of us not social enough to get invited to parties, there is perhaps no Halloween tradition more sacred than sitting down in front of a mind-numbing screen with some nice mind-numbing snacks to...

At first glance, the nightmare-scape world of Alejandro Landes’s “Monos” looks nothing like our own. Set atop a remote mountain in Latin America, teenagers are given intense training in the art...

After the series finale of “Breaking Bad,” fans across the world were left with many unanswered questions after a massive cliffhanger. Six years later, those questions were answered in the follow-up...

Editor's note: This review may contain spoilers for the film.  The first three minutes of Takashi Miike’s “First Love” see a drug dealer get his head chopped off by a machete in a dark Japanese...