Gavin Dahl

Quite a few new movies deserve the hype they’re getting during Oscar season. The staggering preeminence of “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse,” “Isle of Dogs” and “Black Panther” demand repeat viewings. “Vice,” “Roma,” and “Green Book” deliver on their cinematic intentions vividly, and director Spike Lee and actor Sam Elliott are long overdue nominees. Women directed […]

When I moved from Denver to the Roaring Fork Valley, I assumed my access to new cinema would suffer. It hasn’t. Thanks to theaters like the Crystal in Carbondale and the Isis in Aspen, the handy inter-library reservation system, and hard-working postal workers delivering Netflix DVDs every few days, it’s easy to go beyond the […]