by Travis Poppleton | Feb 5, 2020 | Featured, 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 | Oct 31, 2019 | Featured, Movie News
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...
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...
