by Travis Poppleton | Feb 5, 2020 | Movie News
MANDERLY — It was no small feat for British director, Alfred Hitchcock, to take home his first and only Academy Award for Best Picture back in 1940. The filmmaker already known for films like “The Man Who Knew Too Much” and “Jamaica Inn” chose...
by Travis Poppleton | Dec 25, 2019 | Reviews
BEDFORD FALLS — With World War II only a few months behind us, 1946 was one of those years that will forever define American History. Tupperware was hitting department store shelves, bikinis were invented, Donald Trump was born, and a box office disappointment titled...
by Travis Poppleton | Oct 31, 2019 | Reviews
DR. FRANKENSTEIN’S LAB — Isn’t there something about Halloween that just makes old-timey, melodramatic movies sing? Sure, you can enjoy a few episodes of “The Twilight Zone” any time of the year, and cruising down some highway with a 1920s radio...
by Travis Poppleton | Sep 25, 2019 | Featured, FilmInUtah, Movie News, Utah
OLD TIMEY UTAH – Last month, we kicked off our monthly KSL classic movie feature with the ever-controversial “The Birth of a Nation.” It was, admittedly, a heavy intro to this series, but we knew we had to get it out of the way. There’s no version of film history that...
by Travis Poppleton | Aug 14, 2019 | Featured, mainStory, Movie News
Somewhere after 1905 unveiled 5-cent Nickelodeons and before 1929 introduced the world to its first official Academy Awards, movie director D.W. Griffith had an idea. What would happen, he likely wondered, if you were to take a controversial novel, an...