by Travis Poppleton | Mar 3, 2017 | Featured, FrontPage, mainStory, Reviews
THE MOVIE THEATER — A United Kingdom is one of those movies you remember fondly. It’s definitely not a perfect film, and you may find yourself checking your watch throughout its 111-minute runtime, but shortly after your “United Kingdom” experience, you’ll think back...
by Travis Poppleton | Feb 7, 2017 | Featured, FrontPage, mainStory, Reviews
MOVIE LAND — Let’s face it fellow movie-lovers, there’s simply too much quality filmmaking going on to consume in a single lifetime. Without calling on the “back in my day” lament, we’ll just say there was a time when films were bound by practical effects, most...
by Travis Poppleton | Jan 20, 2017 | Featured, FrontPage, mainStory, Reviews, Utah
PARK CITY — I thought I knew exactly what I was getting into when I sat down for “An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power” at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. I’ve seen the 2006 original, “An Inconvenient Truth” and since that time watched more than my...
by Travis Poppleton | Sep 30, 2016 | Featured, FrontPage, mainStory, Reviews
MOVIE LAND — Like many moviegoers, I’m always a bit sad to see the summer season end. Getting caught up in capes, space battles and magic wands is part of what makes the big screen so much fun, and saying goodbye to summer blockbusters, well, that means we have...
by Travis Poppleton | Sep 22, 2016 | FrontPage, mainStory, Reviews
Before we dive into a review for this weekend’s “The Magnificent Seven,” let me just note that as a moviegoer, you can pretty much ignore everything critics are yammering on about when it comes to this film. Yes, the contemporary dialogue is distracting and yes it’s...
by Travis Poppleton | Aug 30, 2016 | FrontPage, mainStory, Reviews
“The Little Prince” is a movie I’ve been waiting to see since it first premiered at the 68th Cannes Film Festival. As a pretty big fan of Antoine de Saint-Exupery’s 1943 classic, and not so much a fan of the 1974 film adaptation with Gene Wilder — though let’s...
