by Travis Poppleton | Jan 19, 2017 | Featured, FrontPage, Interviews, mainStory, Utah
PARK CITY — As a movie lover in the state of Utah, I can’t think of a better way to start the year off than with the Sundance Film Festival. Not only do we movie geeks get our first look at some of the year’s most promising projects, but for 10 gloriously chilly days...
by Travis Poppleton | Sep 30, 2016 | Featured, FrontPage, mainStory, Reviews
MOVIE LAND — Like many moviegoers, I’m always a bit sad to see the summer season end. Getting caught up in capes, space battles and magic wands is part of what makes the big screen so much fun, and saying goodbye to summer blockbusters, well, that means we have...
by Travis Poppleton | Sep 22, 2016 | FrontPage, mainStory, Reviews
Before we dive into a review for this weekend’s “The Magnificent Seven,” let me just note that as a moviegoer, you can pretty much ignore everything critics are yammering on about when it comes to this film. Yes, the contemporary dialogue is distracting and yes it’s...
by Travis Poppleton | Aug 30, 2016 | FrontPage, mainStory, Reviews
“The Little Prince” is a movie I’ve been waiting to see since it first premiered at the 68th Cannes Film Festival. As a pretty big fan of Antoine de Saint-Exupery’s 1943 classic, and not so much a fan of the 1974 film adaptation with Gene Wilder — though let’s...
by Travis Poppleton | Aug 20, 2016 | FrontPage, Reviews
ANCIENT ROME — Is there a relationship more dysfunctional than Hollywood’s roller-coaster romance with faith-centered material? As movie fans, spiritually-minded audiences don’t know if they’re getting a sweeping, cinematic classic like Cecil B. DeMille’s 1956 version...
