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...

By Michael J. Casey - Dec. 11, 2024

Life in a hole

‘The End’ might be the most perplexing movie of 2024

By Michael J. Casey - Dec. 11, 2024

Forgone conclusion

Leo Fife, an acclaimed Canadian documentarian, is rapidly withering away from cancer. With his few remaining breaths, he would like to tell his story. It’s a story no one else...

By Michael J. Casey - Dec. 4, 2024

King Kong ain’t got nothing on him

He’s one of our greatest living actors, and Denver’s Sie FilmCenter is here to prove it with a 10-plus-four film series tracing the range and charisma of the incomparable Denzel...

By Michael J. Casey - Dec. 3, 2024

Junk man

Queer knows how to hide its secrets. Told in three chapters and one epilogue, Queer opens with William Lee (Daniel Craig) in a Mexican village. Like his fellow expats, Lee...

By Michael J. Casey - Nov. 25, 2024

There is a light that never goes out 

The mysterious ‘Double Life of Véronique’ illuminates CU’s International Film Series

By Michael J. Casey - Nov. 13, 2024

‘Hello, gorgeous’

‘Funny Girl’ joins The Criterion Collection

By Michael J. Casey - Nov. 13, 2024

‘You gotta be here’

George Nolfi on his Boulder-based sci-fi survivalist flick ‘Elevation’ and the future of filmmaking in Colorado

By Gregory Wakeman - Nov. 13, 2024

Dust to dust

Annaleigh Ashford on isolation and the power of nature in psych-horror film ‘Hold Your Breath’

By Jezy J. Gray - Nov. 6, 2024

Goblin mode

Party monsters, Nordic metalheads and Salvador Dalí get weird at the Dairy Arts Center 

By Michael J. Casey - Nov. 6, 2024

Drama, drama, doc

Three can’t-miss movies for the Denver Film Festival’s final weekend

By Michael J. Casey - Nov. 6, 2024

This is gonna hurt

Slightly neurotic and a little anxious, David Kaplan (Jesse Eisenberg) moves and talks like he’s wound a bit too tight. He’s the type to use a flood of fast-flowing words...

By Michael J. Casey - Oct. 30, 2024

Denver Film Festival spotlight: ‘Chainsaws Were Singing’

The bloody musical comedy screens Nov. 1 and Nov. 9

By Michael J. Casey - Oct. 30, 2024

House haunters 

The creepy Colorado connection behind ‘The Changeling’

By Michael J. Casey - Oct. 24, 2024

‘Making something special’

Sean Baker on his Palme d’Or winning ‘Anora’

By Jack Waines - Oct. 23, 2024

Fright nights

Round out spooky season with these chilling classics and underground gems

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