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Category: Reviews

Boulder Weekly, Home Video, Reviews

AFTER LIFE (ワンダフルライフ)

August 26, 2021July 29, 2023 Michael J. Casey

You don’t know it at first, but this is purgatory. Well, a way station might be a better description. Regardless, all the clients who arrive are deceased, and it’s up to the clerks to get them to the next place. … Continue reading AFTER LIFE (ワンダフルライフ)

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SHANG-CHI AND THE LEGEND OF THE TEN RINGS

August 23, 2021August 19, 2021 Michael J. Casey

Though Sauron divvied out 19 rings, he only needed one. Wenwu has 10, five for each arm, and they can do just about whatever he wants: Accelerate punches, shoot energy blast, fly around the room and knock over enemies, you … Continue reading SHANG-CHI AND THE LEGEND OF THE TEN RINGS

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August 21, 2021August 21, 2021 Michael J. Casey

On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts’ producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about two new documentaries that make for one heck of a double feature: In the Same Breath (streaming now on HBO Max) and Bring Your … Continue reading

Boulder Weekly, Reviews

IN THE SAME BREATH and BRING YOUR OWN BRIGADE

August 19, 2021July 29, 2023 Michael J. Casey

On Jan. 1, 2020, Wuhan, China, welcomed a new year and a new decade. That same day, Chinese state media announced that eight individuals were arrested in conjunction with spreading rumors about a new form of pneumonia. Twenty-two days later, … Continue reading IN THE SAME BREATH and BRING YOUR OWN BRIGADE

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RISEN

August 19, 2021August 20, 2021 Michael J. Casey

The small farming town of Badger, New York has dropped dead. Yesterday, 3,000 people lived there. Today it’s a gray and ashen wasteland. Tomorrow, 49 of the dead will come back to life. Risen, written and directed by Eddie Arya, … Continue reading RISEN

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SEARCHING FOR MR. RUGOFF

August 12, 2021August 12, 2021 Michael J. Casey

You know the movies, you might even know the hands and minds behind them: Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Putney Swoop, The Man Who Fell to Earth, Swept Away, Z. But do you know the name of the man who distributed them? Who created … Continue reading SEARCHING FOR MR. RUGOFF

Boulder Weekly, Home Video, Reviews

ASHES AND DIAMONDS (POPIÓL I DIAMENT)

August 12, 2021July 29, 2023 Michael J. Casey

Two men wait outside a church. They are armed and tasked with an assassination mission. The mark approaches, and the men leap into action, gunning their target down as he opens the doors to the chapel. Mission accomplished. The date: … Continue reading ASHES AND DIAMONDS (POPIÓL I DIAMENT)

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SWAN SONG

August 11, 2021August 12, 2021 Michael J. Casey

Once upon a time, Pat Pitsenbarger was the bon vivant of his small Ohio town. The “Liberace of Sandusky,” one resident calls him. Pat was a hairdresser, and he was responsible for all the socialites of Sandusky. Then his star … Continue reading SWAN SONG

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SABAYA

August 6, 2021August 6, 2021 Michael J. Casey

Located in Northern Iraq, the Yazidi Home Center houses the Yazidi—a Kurdish minority religion with monotheistic roots in the pre-Zoroastrian Iranic faith. In 2014, Daesh (ISIS) killed and abducted thousands of Yazidi women and girls, imprisoning them and selling them … Continue reading SABAYA

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