Jessica Drummond (played by Barbara Stanwyck) is a hardened but benign rancher who holds sway over a small army of – you guessed it – for...

Amadou Bagayoko and Mariam Doumbia are a married pair of musicians from Bamako, Mali who met in the 1970’s at Mali's Institute for th...

Is it possible for a movie to succeed as a child’s tale and simultaneously maintain some real intellectual and emotional impact for an ad...

When I was going to Merrill Junior High here in Denver I had an 8 th grade music teacher named Mrs. Weber who would allow us kids to bri...

“Television is reality, and reality is less than television.” First let me get this off my chest, this movie is not for the children ...

In celebration of Tig Notaro’s upcoming show at the Paramount Theatre on 11/9, local comedian and Twist and Shout em...

Melvins have been doing it for over 30 years now.  But what is it exactly that they do?  Punk, hardcore, post-punk, post-hardcore, sludge, ...

Although there is very little doubt that William Friedkin is a talented, varied and periodically excellent filmmaker, there are certain f...

Don’t be afraid of Cecil Taylor; he won’t hurt you, he just wants to make beautiful music. He’s earned a reputation as a challenging jazz...

I don’t care if European Vacation is the second worst rated of the National Lampoon Vacation series, it’s my favorite. I’m not saying i...

Like many genres of music, Reggae has become a shadow of what it once was. What happens in modern music is; things get absorbed into the ...

The 1970’s and the New Hollywood movement produced a lot of fascinating work rooted in the turmoil of the times. The changing milieu of m...

Wilco are rightfully acknowledged as one of the best and most important American rock bands currently making music.  This consensus seemed ...

I saw To Sir, With Love the year it came out in 1967. I was almost 10 and it had a profound effect on me. In fact it altered the course o...

My friend (and former co-worker) Ben and I were recently discussing similarities across several different types of music that he likes to c...