While Denver does not attract as massive of a crowd of industry folk, every film I saw had a full house of patrons, and there is interest here akin to the higher-profile festivals. I was able to catch the last 2 days of the 10-day festival but still managed to see a great cross-section of festival movies. While the Denver Film Festival does not attract as massive of a crowd of industry folk, every film I saw had a full house of patrons, and there is interest here akin to the higher-profile festivals. Here are my thoughts on each one, as well as a bit on when their planned release is. READ MORE...

Digging a little further back into Netflix’s extensive movie archive, you’ll find Witness, one of the major award-winning movies of 1985. From the opening scene, we see what appears to be images from the early US frontier: a community of old-fashioned dressed people gather for a funeral. The title card: Pennsylvania, 1985. No, we’re not in the 19th Century as first impressions lead us to think, we’re deep in Amish country in what was present day at the movie’s release. READ MORE...

You've seen him in a number of celebrated American indie movies, and now you can own a piece of that cinematic history. As writer/director John Turturro sets to release his latest feature film, Fading Gigolo, CINEMACY is offering you the chance to win a Fading Gigolo prize pack that includes a signed copy of one of Turturro's most beloved movies, The Big Lebowski, along with the Fading Gigolo original soundtrack! READ MORE...

Morgan catches us up on the happenings at the AFI film fest, and shares what film she's most excited to see. READ MORE...

All dust-paved roads were leading to this. How could they not? In an age whose generational youth can be broadly (or unfairly) understood by their misguided sense of identity through contradictions, by extension of the manipulative second life that digital communication allows, it should come as no surprise that the biggest band in 21st century American pop music is a folk quartet who play the banjo and still wear suspenders. And are from England. With their latest music video, Hollywood funnymen Jason Sudeikis, Ed Helms, Jason Bateman, and Will Forte might have just accidentally helped the British folk quartet Mumford & Sons shatter its facade.

If the above title sounds a bit too "National Enquirer"-y for you, I apologize. I am usually the first to acknowledge that there is rarely any time when gossip-style news should be discussed, let alone deemed "important," especially in relation to art, whose definitive artistic motivations shouldn't allow for any culturally-reflexive speculation to add further meaning to. READ MORE...