by Travis Poppleton | 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 poppletown | 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 Travis Poppleton | 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 Travis Poppleton | 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...
by Travis Poppleton | Dec 9, 2017 | Featured, FrontPage, mainStory, Movie News, StateOfMovies
THE MOVIE SET — When you hear someone casually throw out the phrase, “lightning never strikes twice,” said phrase-thrower is almost never talking about a Hollywood director. In truth, many directors have achieved back-to-back hits. You could even say, many directors...
by poppletown | Nov 27, 2017 | Featured, FrontPage, mainStory, Reviews
THE HEREAFTER – Pixar made me cry again. In front of colleagues, friends and family, I found myself dabbing the corners of my eyes with my ring finger — trying to be manly but not so manly that I looked like one of those guys who’s afraid to show emotion. Like the...
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