cyberhobo

The self-deprecating and self-referential style that confronts you from the opening scene hits a little too close to home in its criticisms of itself. It’s not a lost cause though, the characters are entertaining and remind me of people I’ve known, and the actors do a good job with them. Christina Ricci especially does well…

Hey, it’s a noir film with a plotline you can follow and a soundtrack that’s only mildly bombastic! I enjoyed this solid piece, though it irritated me a little that it sounded off like Hemingway wrote it, when really the screenplay just took a scene with a little dialogue from a Hemingway short story, then…

I’m glad we caught this opportunity. Andreas Klein is certainly the highest caliber pianist I’ve seen in a venue as small as CSU’s Edna Rizley Griffin concert hall. His theme for the night was ‘visions’ – short, intense, visually inspired pieces. I was in awe of most them. The Prokofiev series was the only one…

I find it painful to watch a movie that aims high and falls short, probably because it reminds me of my own failings. This film had the potential to be a somber but graceful expression of existential angst, making use of Cassandra-esque characters to illustrate the pain that can be caused by revelations of truth,…

As a movie this pretty much stinks, but as a documentary of one the Australian radio telescopes used in the Apollo 11 mission it’s good. The dramatizations are stiff and stereotypical, but the footage of the TV coverage of the first moon walk is given room to breathe. This is really the only place I’ve…

David Duchovny writes and directs his first film, a coming of age story set in 1973 Manhattan. It’s a well-made movie on nearly all levels. It captures a 70’s feel without going overboard, uses symbolism well without being pretentious about it, features strong performances, and tells a very human story. Don’t look for any X-filesqueness…

In an unusual format, the new director of the Colorado Symphony Orchestra, Jeffrey Kahane, dedicated the entire first half of the evening to an introduction to the 5th symphony, with excerpts and examples played by himself and the orchestra. While I wouldn’t want to do this every time, it was a great change, like having…