by Travis Poppleton | May 11, 2017 | Featured, FrontPage, mainStory, Reviews
The Alien series is a series I’ve had on my “Must Watch Movie” list since I was eight-years-old. I remember when James Cameron’s “Aliens” started showing up on HBO. My older siblings would invite their friends over to experience the second chapter of the franchise,...
by Travis Poppleton | May 5, 2017 | Featured, FilmInUtah, FrontPage, Interviews, mainStory
The Tribeca Film Festival has become one of the most prestigious independent showcases in the world — drawing thousands of international submissions, millions of spectators and over $600 million in revenue annually. That’s why when Tribeca announced a national...
by admin | May 5, 2017 | Featured, FrontPage, mainStory, Movie News, News
While a few Hollywood blockbusters like “Beauty and the Beast” and “The Fate of the Furious” have already made a splash in 2017, May is the month that really opens the summer floodgates for big-budget Hollywood spectacles. Last year, Disney dominated the box office...
by admin | Apr 26, 2017 | Featured, FrontPage, mainStory, Movie News
One of the most loaded phrases to get dropped during a general movie conversation is “independent film.” To begin with, the term is frustratingly ambiguous, seeing as no two movie buffs will define the phrase the same way. But even on days when you do get a unified...
by Travis Poppleton | Apr 11, 2017 | Featured, FilmInUtah, FrontPage, Interviews, mainStory, Utah
The general democratization of film is one of the most interesting topics being discussed at the movie-fan watercooler these days. Not only have services like Netflix and Amazon Prime started stealing awards from major film and television studios, but audiences now...
by Travis Poppleton | Mar 28, 2017 | Featured, FilmInUtah, FrontPage, Interviews, mainStory, Utah
A few months ago, after recording yet another amazing episode of the KSL Popcorn Report podcast, Faith Heaton Jolley and I started discussing what covering smaller films for KSL.com would look like. We knew if we ever did create something like the KSL Indie report,...
