By Michael J. Casey - Apr. 23, 2025

A serious man

Watching A Woman of Paris today — available on Blu-ray from The Criterion Collection — it’s obvious Chaplin was out to prove something.

By Michael J. Casey - Apr. 8, 2025

Distress flares

It’s time to stop overlooking these films. If we are going to make it, it’s going to take attention as well as action.

By Michael J. Casey - Apr. 2, 2025

We’re off to see the wizard

Ebert Interruptus returns to CWA

By Michael J. Casey - Apr. 1, 2025

‘This is bad’

Salt Lake City Weekly film critic on Sundance leaving Utah

By Michael J. Casey - Mar. 25, 2025

Stupid people

‘Death of a Unicorn’ is a shallow satire with nothing to say

By Michael J. Casey - Mar. 18, 2025

Marriage story

‘Black Bag’ is a smart little thriller about love and lies

By Michael J. Casey - Mar. 12, 2025

Warning flair

‘On Becoming a Guinea Fowl’ is a must-see

By Michael J. Casey - Mar. 4, 2025

BIFF marches on

Four picks to make the most of this year’s fest

By Michael J. Casey - Feb. 26, 2025

The cat and the crime

You might not believe it, but the Academy Awards mean a lot. Sure, it’s nice to be nominated, but winning that 8.5-pound golden statue — designed by the great MGM...

By Michael J. Casey - Feb. 19, 2025

‘New forms of cinema’

Kelly Sears isn’t impatient, but she’s eager for the 2025 Brakhage Symposium to begin. “I’m ready to hit play and see it unfold,” the CU Cinema Studies & Moving Image...

By Michael J. Casey - Feb. 11, 2025

Found family

‘Paddington in Peru’ is a sweet sentiment for a sour time

By Michael J. Casey - Feb. 4, 2025

Art Brut

Mathew Klickstein on the weird and wonderful world of Lloyd Kaufman

By Michael J. Casey - Jan. 29, 2025

No news is good news?

The future of the Sundance Film Festival still to come

By Michael J. Casey - Jan. 15, 2025

Bearing Witness

I spoke with Chaplin while he was in town last November to receive the Excellence in Acting Award at the 47th Denver Film Festival.

By Michael J. Casey - Jan. 8, 2025

A likely story

‘The Room Next Door’ toys with the audience

By Michael J. Casey - Jan. 8, 2025

Cue the projector

They tried to warn us, but the lesson didn’t take. Released in 2006, writer-director Mike Judge’s Idiocracy was offloaded into theaters and damn near buried by distributor 20th Century Fox....

By Michael J. Casey - Dec. 23, 2024

The end has no end

This will go down as the year I stopped watching stories and started watching people.

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