by Dani Hatch | Jul 18, 2021 | Featured, FilmInUtah, Movie News, Reviews, StateOfUtah, Utah
Premise Based on stories in the New (and Old) Testament, “The Chosen” brings to life how Jesus Christ led his followers as they went about doing good. I first thought from the previews that the show would center on all the expected Bible stories, following the life of...
by Josh Terry | Jul 6, 2021 | Movie News, Reviews
“Summer of Soul”: 3 1/2 Stars out of 4 It’s a fascinating story: an all-star music festival from the summer of 1969, set in Harlem at a critical juncture in black history, lost to history for fifty years. Until now. “Summer of Soul (or, When the...
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 | 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...
