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Boulder Weekly, Reviews

BOY ERASED

June 3, 2022June 3, 2022 Michael J. Casey

In his landmark study, From Caligari to Hitler: A Psychological History of the German Film, Siegfried Kracauer put forth the theory that cinema is a seismograph for its time, a mass media indicator of the cultural subconscious. In other words: … Continue reading BOY ERASED

Boulder Weekly, Reviews

THE NORTHMAN

April 29, 2022April 28, 2022 Michael J. Casey

There’s a lot about The Northman that is ancient and just as much that’s mythic. It’s Shakespearean in its bones, but touches of Confucius, Sophocles and Wolfram von Eschenbach are never far from reach. There’s even a surprising tribute to Disney’s The Lion … Continue reading THE NORTHMAN

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And the nominees are…

January 12, 2022January 12, 2022 Michael J. Casey

On Monday, January 10, the Denver Film Critics Society—15 writers and broadcasters working in and around the Mile High City, of which I am one—announced their nominees for the best of 2021. In total, 44 movies received nominations with The Power … Continue reading And the nominees are…

Reviews

BEING THE RICARDOS

December 8, 2021December 7, 2021 Michael J. Casey

It was 70 years ago this past October, on Oct. 15, 1951, that the I Love Lucy TV show hit the airwaves. Not a lot of people owned television sets back in those days, but by the time husband and wife team … Continue reading BEING THE RICARDOS

Reviews

THE UPSIDE

January 10, 2019March 22, 2021 Michael J. Casey

Rumors of an English-language remake of The Intouchables began swirling soon after the 2011 movie became France’s second highest-grossing film. And despite the acclaim and praise garnered when the movie was released stateside in 2012, The Intouchables still felt like a movie a decade … Continue reading THE UPSIDE

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STOKER

March 21, 2013December 19, 2021 Michael J. Casey

Stoker is a coming-of-age tale of a young girl’s sexuality wrapped up in a horror movie. Actually, it’s really a young girl’s coming of age story wrapped up in a pastiche of Hitchcock films. Directed by Korean auteur Park Chan-Wook, Stoker is his … Continue reading STOKER

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