Michael Casey

1 week ago | boulderweekly.com | Michael Casey

When you see Elio this weekend, hang around for the end credits and keep an eye out for the name Matthew Silas. He’s a CU Boulder grad, and he’s working for Pixar Animation Studios in layout. “Layout is the department that comes after story,” Silas tells Boulder Weekly over the phone from Berkeley, California. “We’re basically involved in preparing the shots — the staging and the blocking — for the rest of the digital filmmaking pipeline.”And he’s been doing it for 19 years.

2 weeks ago | boulderweekly.com | Michael Casey

Nile and Terry Southern in Southampton, New York circa 1968. Credit: Hans Namuth Once upon a time, American letters were full of subversives, satirists and provocateurs. They made you laugh. They made you think. They changed how you saw the world. The best of them made you uncomfortable within safe spaces and made you feel safe no matter how uncomfortable things got. They helped you grow a thick skin while marveling at beauty in every form. Terry Southern was such a writer.

4 weeks ago | boulderweekly.com | Michael Casey

Nothing to see here, just a creepy kid (Jonah Wren Phillips) holding a house cat in an empty pool. Courtesy: Ingvar Kenne/A24 What greater hell could exist for a parent than the loss of a child? The lengths they would go to undo what has been done, the bargains they would cut, must be bottomless. Pain that fathomable — even for those who haven’t experienced it — makes for good horror. It roots the supernatural in something real.

1 month ago | boulderweekly.com | Michael Casey

Left to right: Benicio Del Toro, Mia Threapleton and Michael Cera in The Phoenician Scheme. Courtesy: TPS Productions/Focus Features The two most interesting moments in The Phoenician Scheme — the latest from director Wes Anderson — come at the beginning and end of the movie. As for what happens in between, we’ll get there.

1 month ago | ksl.com | Michael Casey

BOSTON — Three months after his release from Hamas captivity, Omer Shem Tov stood on the pitcher's mound at a Boston Red Sox game. Surrounded by supporters, he tossed out the first pitch, then raised his arms in celebration. His name flashed on the stadium billboard. The moment was emblematic of the new-found — and for Shem Tov, unsought and at times unsettling — celebrity the 22-year-old has found since his release from 505 days of captivity in the Gaza Strip.