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Travis Poppleton has been covering movie news, film reviews and live events for publications around the country since 2010. He was also one of the voices behind the popular Flix Junkies podcast and award winning KSL Popcorn Report. Today, Travis covers classic movies and film history here at utah.film.
Joshua Terry is an award-winning film critic and photographer who has taught English composition for Weber State since 2016. He appeared on the KJZZ Movie Show from 2013-2016, and spent seven years as the weekly film critic for the Deseret News in Salt Lake City. With degrees in Mass Communication and American Studies, he has worked simultaneously in local media and academia for more than fifteen years.
Dani Hatch is a Film Studies major with a minor in Business Administration. She does most of her work independently, which is featured on her YouTube channel and her blog. She is passionate about collaborating with others and she hopes to become a producer to professionally lead her own creative teams.
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Stunning visuals, worldbuilding offset ‘Creator’s’ so-so story
"The Creator" - 3 Stars out of 4 It seems rare nowadays for a science fiction film to come along that isn’t part of an existingfranchise. Even “Blade Runner” and “2001: A Space Odyssey” had sequels, and many sci-fi filmsare adaptations of well-known books or comics....
Cruise set to save the blockbuster (again) with ‘Dead Reckoning, Part One’
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning, Part One: 3 1/2 stars out of 4 It’s hard to think of a modern franchise as reliable as the Mission: Impossible films, at least in terms of quality. (I can think of a few that can be counted on to be crap, but that’s beside the...
‘Rise of the Beasts’ marks another decline in the Transformers franchise
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts – 2 stars out of 4 Thanks to 2018’s “Bumblebee,” the bar for “Transformers” movies was raised after a decade of overstuffed schlock. Unfortunately, “Transformers: Rise of the Beasts” takes the franchise back toward Bayhem. I went into...
Stunning visuals, worldbuilding offset ‘Creator’s’ so-so story
"The Creator" - 3 Stars out of 4 It seems rare nowadays for a science fiction film to come along that isn’t part of an existingfranchise. Even “Blade Runner” and “2001: A Space Odyssey” had sequels, and many sci-fi filmsare adaptations of well-known books or comics....
Cruise set to save the blockbuster (again) with ‘Dead Reckoning, Part One’
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning, Part One: 3 1/2 stars out of 4 It’s hard to think of a modern franchise as reliable as the Mission: Impossible films, at least in terms of quality. (I can think of a few that can be counted on to be crap, but that’s beside the...
‘Rise of the Beasts’ marks another decline in the Transformers franchise
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts – 2 stars out of 4 Thanks to 2018’s “Bumblebee,” the bar for “Transformers” movies was raised after a decade of overstuffed schlock. Unfortunately, “Transformers: Rise of the Beasts” takes the franchise back toward Bayhem. I went into...