By Michael J. Casey - Apr. 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 - Apr. 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...

By Michael J. Casey - Apr. 3, 2024

Watching out loud

It happens every year: “We find something absolutely amazing, totally amazing, in the films. It’s not there, but we find it.” So said the late film critic Roger Ebert of...

By Gregory Wakeman - Apr. 3, 2024

Should’ve been a cowboy

As soon as John Carroll Lynch started acting as a teenager, it’s been serious business. Looking back on his performances at the Regis Jesuit High School in Denver, the Boulder-born...

By Michael J. Casey - Mar. 27, 2024

The misanthrope

Midway through his life, Samet (Deniz Celiloğlu) looks around and sees nothing he likes. Originally from Istanbul, he obliges his mandatory teaching service in this remote village of perpetual winter...

By Michael J. Casey - Mar. 19, 2024

Toy story

Alejandro dreams of toys. Not crazy, outrageous toys or toys that bring excitement and pleasure, but pensive, melancholy toys reminding kids that time is finite and our actions meaningless. There’s...

By Michael J. Casey - Mar. 12, 2024

Blood simple

It started as love but it ended with a body in the desert. Sometimes, that’s how these things go. But one look at the small New Mexico town where Loves...

By Gregory Wakeman - Mar. 6, 2024

Space is the place

When renowned documentarian and filmmaker Gabriela Cowperthwaite was initially approached about directing the sci-thriller I.S.S., she didn’t know anything about the International Space Station. But that’s exactly what attracted her...

By Michael J. Casey - Mar. 6, 2024

Stillness is a move

She makes the bed. She peels and boils the potatoes. She prepares the coffee and drinks milk. She cleans the small apartment she shares with her son. She takes a...

By Michael J. Casey - Feb. 28, 2024

Spice world

You know he’s the one because he’s a movie star with piercing eyes, floppy hair, goth vulnerability and untapped strength all in one. He’s Prince Hal making good. His name...

By John Lehndorff - Feb. 20, 2024

Watching what we eat

The first time I noticed food on the movie screen was probably the spaghetti-stand kiss in The Lady and the Tramp. Once I started paying attention to cinema, it seemed...

By Michael J. Casey - Feb. 7, 2024

Hollywood gate crashers

They play together and laugh, eat meals, discuss school and tend to the garden. They’re just like other families, except for one crucial detail: When it’s time to go to...

By Michael J. Casey - Jan. 16, 2024

Bestselling book, midlevel movie

It’s not about race; it’s about caste — the system of injustice and subjugation that persists, generation from generation, resistant to the individuals who work to defy and shatter it....

By Michael J. Casey - Jan. 3, 2024

Straight, no chaser

Some people bite the hand that feeds them. American Fiction’s Thelonious “Monk” Ellison wants to chew it whole and spit it back out. Before we get there, first this: American...

Must-Reads

Adolescent cannabis use has decreased for…

So-called “dark money” has entered the…

ARIES (March 21-April 19): The term…

Welcome to our 2024 Primary Vote…

Picture in your mind’s eye the…

ON THE BILL: Following last week’s…

Movement Workshop6:30-7:30 p.m. Thursday, June 13,…