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...
by Travis Poppleton | Jul 10, 2018 | Featured, Movie News
THE LIVING ROOM — A few months ago, I wrote an article about “7 essential movies for film buffs currently streaming on Netflix and Amazon Prime.” The article focused on classic movies available on popular streaming services that in some way changed the filmmaking...
by Travis Poppleton | Jul 6, 2018 | Featured, FrontPage, Movie News, StateOfMovies
I always found it weird when people would nod off in film class. To me, learning where writers and directors came up with their ideas has always been wildly fascinating, so when I’d see someone dip their head a few minutes after the lights were flipped, I’d want to...
by admin | Mar 12, 2018 | Featured, FrontPage, JustOneThing, mainStory, StateOfUtah
A few years back, my little family and I lived in Wellsville, UT. It is a beautiful, miniature town with olde timey shoppes and calendar-worthy views to fit the seasons. The crime-rate is low, the people pleasant, and on the off chance some minor discrepancy demands...
by admin | Jan 30, 2018 | Featured, FrontPage, mainStory, Reviews
This is pretty much a reprint of a review I did back in the day for KSL. In the near future, I’ll get to the state of things here at Utah.film and what happened over there at KSL.com, but for now, I’m enjoying going through my personal archives. In a...
