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Marvel Follows Movie’s Advice to Achieve Full Potential | Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings Review
Premise Shaun (Simu Liu) lives an aimless life as a valet attendant until his past catches up with him. Much to the surprise of his best friend, Katy (Awkwafina), he turns out to be the son of powerful Kung Fu masters, one of whom is a power-hungry immortal warlord...
A Wedding On a Budget | “Once I Was Engaged” Review
“I'm sorry, I know ‘cheap’ is a trigger word for you.”“‘Frugal’ is such a better word!” This is a low budget comedy that comes with all the cheesiness you can expect for a movie intended for a niche audience, but it is unexpectedly insightful. Premise Bree Carrington...
Why we need to talk about The Chosen Season 2
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...
Electrifying “Summer of Soul” finally sees the light
"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 Revolution Could Not...
Revisiting Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘Rebecca’ 80 years after it won best picture
In 1940, Alfred Hitchcock released his first American film which later won him his only Best Picture. Now, 80 years later and a few weeks from the Academy Awards, KSL Movie Classics takes a look back at that movie and some of the reasons it’s still relevant today.
Why ‘Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid’ is still relevant after 50 years
It’s been 50 years since the premiere of “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,” and the movie is just as relevant as ever.
Why the 1915 racist movie ‘The Birth of a Nation’ is still relevant today
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...
7 more essential movies for film buffs streaming on Netflix, Amazon Prime
We recently covered the seven essential movies for film buffs before 1940, and now we’re back with seven essential movies for film buffs currently streaming on Netflix, Amazon Prime that are from 1941 to 1979.
7 movies you missed in film class streaming now on Amazon and Netflix
Here are seven essential movies for film-buffs that are currently streaming on Netflix or Amazon Prime.
Why I no longer write for KSL
To get right to the point, and to save everyone any additional reading for the day, I left KSL.com because my editor told me I couldn’t report on a movie at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival. That is the short and direct answer. If you’d like to keep reading you can....