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Tag: Sundance Film Festival

Boulder Weekly, Film Festival

Things to Come: Dispatches from the 2022 Sundance Film Festival

February 10, 2022February 9, 2022 Michael J. Casey

Movies are most often windows to what is and what was. But sometimes, they’re windows to what could be. And it doesn’t have to be in a grand sense either. Take Cha Cha Real Smooth, writer/director/star Cooper Raiff’s sophomore effort, for starters. About … Continue reading Things to Come: Dispatches from the 2022 Sundance Film Festival

KGNU: After Image
February 5, 2022February 5, 2022 Michael J. Casey

On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts’ producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about the movies that played the 2022 Sundance Film Festival. Listen to After Image, Fridays at 3:00 p.m., on KGNU’s Metro Arts: 88.5 FM and 1390 … Continue reading

Film Festival, Reviews

HONK FOR JESUS. SAVE YOUR SOUL.

January 28, 2022January 28, 2022 Michael J. Casey

Trinitie Childs (Regina Hall) has that look in her eyes, a look that’s masking a lot of pain for the greater good. Or, at least, that’s what she tells herself. Her husband, Lee-Curtis Childs (Sterling K. Brown), is the pastor … Continue reading HONK FOR JESUS. SAVE YOUR SOUL.

Film Festival, Reviews

DUAL

January 26, 2022January 26, 2022 Michael J. Casey

In the future, we will conquer death. Not that we will be able to cure people from dying (what monster would even dream of such a thing?), just that death will no longer stand at the end. That, or something … Continue reading DUAL

Film Festival, Reviews

WATCHER

January 26, 2022January 26, 2022 Michael J. Casey

It really is no surprise that Julia (Maika Monroe) isn’t happy. She’s followed her husband to Bucharest but can’t speak the language. He has a job in marketing, but she has only memories of a career in acting. She gave … Continue reading WATCHER

Film Festival, Reviews

AFTER YANG

January 25, 2022January 26, 2022 Michael J. Casey

Jake (Colin Farrell) and Kyra (Jodie Turner-Smith) have purchased an android, Yang (Justin H. Min), to help educate their adopted daughter Mika (Malea Emma Tjandrawidjaja) about her Chinese heritage. The way Jake says this when he talks to other people … Continue reading AFTER YANG

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Sundance Film Festival 2022

January 20, 2022January 13, 2022 Michael J. Casey

For the second year in a row, the Sundance Film Festival returns to Colorado. Well, to anyone with an internet connection and a movie ticket, really, because Sundance ’22 (January 20-30) is once again rolling out the virtual red carpet with … Continue reading Sundance Film Festival 2022

KGNU: After Image
January 8, 2022January 8, 2022 Michael J. Casey

On this week’s edition of After Image, I chat with Metro Arts’ producer Veronica Straight-Lingo about the upcoming virtual Sundance Film Festival and The Worst Person in the World—one of my favorites from 2021, and one of the movies you … Continue reading

Boulder Weekly, Film Festival, Interviews

Joe Cappa on GHOST DOGS

November 8, 2021November 5, 2021 Michael J. Casey

Now playing in-person and virtually, the 44th Denver Film Festival features 230-plus narratives and docs, features and shorts, series and music videos, many of them in the Centennial State. Among those featured in the Colorado Shorts program: Ghost Dogs, the latest from … Continue reading Joe Cappa on GHOST DOGS

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