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Category: Reviews

Boulder Weekly, Film Festival

No News is Good News? Dispatch from the 2025 Sundance Film Festival

January 30, 2025November 28, 2025 Michael J. Casey

It’s like a grade school love note: Do you like me? (check one)□ Yes□ No♡ Maybe And right now, Boulder is still waiting patiently for a reply. On Jan. 23, the 2025 Sundance Film Festival got underway with no announcement … Continue reading No News is Good News? Dispatch from the 2025 Sundance Film Festival

Home Video, Must-See Westerns

WINCHESTER ’73

January 28, 2025January 22, 2025 Michael J. Casey

When it comes to westerns, 1950 was a banner year. More than 125 features were released that year—a high-water mark the genre would never again see—and many would become emblematic of the genre: John Ford’s Wagon Master, Henry King’s The … Continue reading WINCHESTER ’73

Boulder Weekly, Reviews

THE ROOM NEXT DOOR

January 9, 2025January 30, 2025 Michael J. Casey

A woman is dying and asks her friend for a favor. “What is it?” the friend asks. “I’m going to kill myself,” the woman says. “And I want you to be in the room next door when I do.” That … Continue reading THE ROOM NEXT DOOR

Reviews

BETTER MAN

January 9, 2025January 9, 2025 Michael J. Casey

Though he never had the cross-Atlantic success of rivals Oasis or a stateside post-boy band solo career à la Ricky Martin coming out of Menudo, Robbie Williams was a massive pop star at a time when Britpop was all the … Continue reading BETTER MAN

Boulder Weekly, Reviews

A COMPLETE UNKNOWN

December 19, 2024January 9, 2025 Michael J. Casey

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 iconic Bob Dylan song has and will stand the test … Continue reading A COMPLETE UNKNOWN

Boulder Weekly, Reviews

OH, CANADA

December 12, 2024December 26, 2024 Michael J. Casey

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 fully knows—maybe not even Leo himself. “You can’t do this,” … Continue reading OH, CANADA

Boulder Weekly, Reviews

THE END

December 12, 2024December 26, 2024 Michael J. Casey

It’s been 25 years since the world ended. Some sort of climate catastrophe is what did it, and the only survivors we know of are Father (Michael Shannon), Mother (Tilda Swinton), Son (George MacKay), their Doctor (Lennie James), Butler (Tim … Continue reading THE END

Boulder Weekly, Reviews

QUEER

December 5, 2024December 19, 2024 Michael J. Casey

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 spends most of his days drinking and cruising for sex. … Continue reading QUEER

Boulder Weekly, Film Festival

The Sie FilmCenter celebrates DENZ-EMBER

December 5, 2024December 19, 2024 Michael J. Casey

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 Washington. The series kicked off Dec. 1 with Malcolm X—followed … Continue reading The Sie FilmCenter celebrates DENZ-EMBER

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