Tag: Michael J. Casey

‘The Phoenician Scheme’ is a messy movie that feels like a shrug

Everybody has a friend like Withnail. And everybody’s worked for a Dennis. It gets harder when, one day, you stare into the mirror and see either of them looking back.

‘The Shrouds’ unearths the persistence of grief

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

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.

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

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

Mathew Klickstein on the weird and wonderful world of Lloyd Kaufman

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

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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...