By Jezy J. Gray - Mar. 28, 2025

‘We’re here’ moment

Boulder embraces its Sundance era

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 Jezy J. Gray - Mar. 11, 2025

Ready and able

Indie road-trip dramedy ‘Daruma’ dodges disability tropes 

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 Jezy J. Gray - Feb. 4, 2025

Love is weird 

Celebrate Valentine’s Day with a fucked-up twist on ‘Romeo and Juliet’ at the Dairy Arts Center

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.

By Michael J. Casey - Dec. 18, 2024

‘Running in the rain’

When we talk about movies, we talk about what they’re about. But when we talk about Nickel Boys, we have to talk about how it’s about what it’s about. “The...

By Michael J. Casey - Dec. 17, 2024

Freewheelin’ Phony

For Bruce Springsteen, it was the starting snare shot of “Like a Rolling Stone” that kicked open the door to his mind. He’s not wrong. And he’s not alone. That...

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