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 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...
by admin | Jan 23, 2018 | Featured, FrontPage, mainStory, Reviews
Around this time every year, while people guilt themselves into gym memberships and yoga classes, I wonder why I haven’t seen more movies from the Academy’s Best Picture category. Last year, I took a pretty good swing at remedying the issue. After a few...
by admin | Jan 20, 2018 | Featured, FrontPage, JustOneThing, mainStory, Movie News, News, StateOfMovies
SALT LAKE CITY — Do we really live in a world where Disney owns Homer Simpson? Can that be right? And what about the newly enlisted crew of the Orville? Will Disney now decide their fate as well? As it turns out, that’s not even half of the weirdness. Disney’s...
by admin | Dec 14, 2017 | Featured, FrontPage, mainStory, Musings, StateOfMovies
THE DEATH STAR — Recently, I received a random text from a friend who said, “We’re at Benihana tonight and debating the ‘proper’ viewing order of “Star Wars.” Like most people reading this, my first thought was, “What is there to debate? You start with...
