By Jezy J. Gray - September 5,2024

Weirder than weird

Move over, J.D. Vance — this month’s underground cinema showcase at the Dairy is truly strange

By Gregory Wakeman - August 28,2024

Funny girl

How Longmont’s own Kristen Schaal conquered the comedy world

By Michael J. Casey - July 8,2024

Life’s but a walking shadow

Of all Shakespeare’s plays, few hold fascination with artists and audiences quite like The Tragedie of Macbeth. Romeo and Juliet has the romance and Hamlet has the speech, but Macbeth...

By Michael J. Casey - July 2,2024

Passing the baton

Now in its sixth year, the Boulder Environmental / Nature / Outdoors Film Festival (Boulder ENOFF) has become a summer staple. Screening July 11-14 at the Dairy Arts Center, Boulder...

By Jezy J. Gray - July 2,2024

Bloodsuckers welcome

After the grim spectacle of last week’s presidential debate, we could all use an escape. If the real world isn’t weird enough for you, the film freaks at the Dairy...

By Michael J. Casey - June 12,2024

Death becomes her

The specter of death hangs over everyone and everything. In the movie Tuesday by writer-director Daina Oniunas-Pusić, that specter takes the form of a size-shifting parrot — a filthy, scarred...

By Michael J. Casey - June 5,2024

The man who made the myths

When Orson Welles was asked what filmmakers he admired, he responded, “I prefer the old masters, by which I mean John Ford, John Ford and John Ford.” Born John Martin...

By Michael J. Casey - June 5,2024

Fasten your seatbelts

Nothing screams summer quite like a road trip. The pull of the open road, the freedom to choose this path or that, the small pockets of life one comes across...

By Jezy J. Gray - June 5,2024

Front Range strange 

Like most nonprofit workers, you’ll find Shay Wescott wearing many hats on a given day. Her main job is overseeing fundraising efforts for the Dairy Arts Center as the multidisciplinary...

By Michael J. Casey - May 29,2024

OK boomer

Few cinematic forms benefitted from the advent of digital technology like the documentary. And not just in cost and access to equipment but in the proliferation of digital archives directors...

By Michael J. Casey - May 15,2024

Cruel world

The place is filled with glowing neon lights, loud noises and whirling games. Families play and celebrate birthday parties, but down the center aisle shuffles an old-timer apologizing to everyone...

By Michael J. Casey - May 8,2024

Career killer

Something must have been in the water in 1960. All around the world, filmmakers, either at the beginning, middle or the end of their careers, swung for the fences.  In...

By Gregory Wakeman - May 6,2024

Let’s get physical

It’s been nearly two decades since Jessica Rothe called the Front Range home, but the prolific screen actor says she’ll always be “a homegrown Colorado girl.” Like her parents, Rothe...

By Michael J. Casey - May 1,2024

Dirty talk

A letter has arrived at the Swan residence, a despicable letter riddled with obscenities and sexual vulgarity. It’s the 19th of its kind, and each one has scandalized dear old...

By Michael J. Casey - April 24,2024

‘To build a better world’

It was 30 years ago this April that Turner Classic Movies (TCM) first signed on the air. Truly, it wasn’t that big of a deal then: AMC still stood for...

By Gregory Wakeman - April 16,2024

Going ape

Something strange is stirring in the wilderness. But unlike the devoted cryptid enthusiasts of reality shows like Finding Bigfoot, you won’t have to camp out in remote reaches of the...

By Michael J. Casey - April 16,2024

Tennis, anyone?

Within every game, there’s a second game playing out inside the first. We can’t always see it, but it’s often much more significant than the one we’re watching. This is...

By Michael J. Casey - April 10,2024

Separation anxiety

What are you boys fighting for?  That’s the question writer-historian Shelby Foote tries to answer in Ken Burns’ landmark 1990 documentary The Civil War. Foote finds it in the story...

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