I’m okay with movies that feature time travel in them. Avengers: Endgame is not a time-travel movie, but it does feature people bopping back and forth along multiple timelines. Cool, nothing wrong with that. Movies specifically about time travel, though, tend to be very much a mixed bag. I’m talking more about films that specifically […]

Making a spoof movie is hard, fiendishly so. Don’t believe me? Think you can just throw together a bunch of jokes about pop culture and guys getting hit in the nuts, and your movie will recoup a tidy profit? Not so much, and I’ve come with proof. Exhibits A and B are Jason Friedberg and […]

Rightly or wrongly, my son Liam and I have seen every film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.* It’s not an exaggeration to say that’s a lot of movies. Along with that is a lot of television. In total we have hundreds of hours of people in billion dollar combat armor, super-soldiers, gamma irradiated folks, a […]

We’re not so far away from the outbreak of the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic that I don’t remember how it felt. The itchy, pain in the ass masks. The six foot social distancing. The closure of movie theaters, restaurants, essentially anything that took place inside.* The gnawing uncertainty, the feeling that the virus could be virtually […]

It’s entirely possible that your only exposure to Superman is from the movies. You’ve almost certainly seen the 1978 film starring Christopher Reeve, and you may have seen the 2006 Superman Returns, as well as the 2013 Man of Steel. If so, you know the basics. Doomed planet. Desperate scientists. Last hope. Kindly couple.* The […]

Tim Brennan’s Rise from Boulder Critic to National Film Authority For over a decade, Tim Brennan has been one of the most important voices not only on AboutBoulder.com, but across our entire media network. With thousands of loyal readers and a Rotten Tomatoes–certified critic badge to his name, Tim has shaped the way Coloradans — […]

If you’re of a certain age, 1993’s Jurassic Park is one of your favorite movies. It makes sense, considering it’s made by Steven Spielberg, one of the greatest filmmakers to ever live. It’s got groundbreaking special effects that fuse CGI, puppetry, and mechanical creatures. Perhaps most importantly, it’s got dinosaurs. Just a metric ass ton of […]

It’s thrilling when there’s a quantum leap in genre filmmaking, when a director lights hoary old tropes on fire and charges forth with something new. Back in the day, zombie movies nearly all aped the work George Romero did with Night of the Living Dead. Romero laid out all the rules. The zombies were slow, […]

I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to say that Stephen King is one of the greatest writers in American history.* It’s not just that he’s incredibly prolific, with more that two hundred short stories, sixty-five novels, five nonfiction books, a few screenplays, a musical, and comics. While King built up his reputation as a horror […]

Not long ago, my good friend Mark announced to us that he was dipping a pinky toe into the barracuda-infested waters of dating. As you might imagine, it’s been a good news/bad news kind of scenario. The good news is that he’s chatted with a number of smart, interesting, and cool women. The bad news […]