Author: Michael J. Casey

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

Cinematic Survival Guide, Vol. 2

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.

Ebert Interruptus returns to CWA

Salt Lake City Weekly film critic on Sundance leaving Utah

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

Mathew Klickstein on the weird and wonderful world of Lloyd Kaufman

The future of the Sundance Film Festival still to come

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

‘The Room Next Door’ toys with the audience

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....

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