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Why the 1915 racist movie ‘The Birth of a Nation’ is still relevant today

Why the 1915 racist movie ‘The Birth of a Nation’ is still relevant today

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...
Wellsville’s ‘Sham Battle’ is as bad as Gehrke says –with pictures

Wellsville’s ‘Sham Battle’ is as bad as Gehrke says –with pictures

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...
Retro movie review: ‘Harvey’ must be oh so smart or oh so pleasant

Retro movie review: ‘Harvey’ must be oh so smart or oh so pleasant

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...
Retro movie review: 1927 ‘Wings’ soars as first Academy Award

Retro movie review: 1927 ‘Wings’ soars as first Academy Award

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...
5 things Disney owns after the $52.4B deal with Fox

5 things Disney owns after the $52.4B deal with Fox

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...
What is the perfect movie order to enjoy a ‘Star Wars’ marathon

What is the perfect movie order to enjoy a ‘Star Wars’ marathon

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...
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