Tag: John Carroll Lynch
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2025 films: A look back at 12 hidden gems
The Oscars don’t happen till March, making now a great time to go back and check out the best overlooked films of last year, starting with ‘The Penguin Lessons’ Any list of “Best Films of 2025” must be qualified by the essential words “that I’ve seen.” No two moviegoers’ pool of candidates is the same.…
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Justine Lupe comes home: Everybody wants this
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2025 DENVER GAZETTE TRUE WEST AWARDS: DAY 19 A remarkably large class of Coloradans excelled in 2025 on screens large and small, and on stages near and far Justine Lupe started to get famous around 2018 because she was versatile, she was deeply relatable, she was quirky, and she was completely authentic – on camera and…
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Denver’s John Carroll Lynch makes Broadway debut Thursday
I’ve always thought of John Carroll Lynch as a stage actor ever since I saw him play Judas in a Denver youth production of “Godspell.” Two years later, I was handing him the bowl of water and scream-singing, “Pilate, crucify him!” in “Jesus Christ Superstar.” Soon, he was performing with the Colorado Shakespeare Festival and…
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Sixty years of great Esquire Theatre stories | John Moore
I’ve seen hundreds of films in my lifetime. But one moviegoing experience that will never leave me was gathering with friends at the Esquire Theatre in 1996 to see our friend John Carroll Lynch in his first major film role – as Norm “Son of a” Gunderson in “Fargo.” There were about 10 of us in…
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Denver actors on why the strike should matter to you | John Moore
Denver actors John Carroll Lynch and Gustavo Márquez have taken very different paths to the picket line, where the entertainment industry has been shut down by simultaneous writers’ and actors’ strikes for the first time since 1960. But they stand in solidarity with the 200,000 rank-and-file union members whose largely modest livelihoods are being compromised…