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In the video-age journalism thriller “Primetime,” director Lance Oppenheim uses the former NBC News series “To Catch a Predator” to serve as a vessel carrying the emotional weight of people trying to ...

The Harley-riding entrepreneur who's "so chill" about fame joins the “RHOSLC” cast for Season 7, premiering Wednesday. “Every mean thing that someone could say to me, I’ve already been called. I just ...

If you’re familiar with the clay-animated works of Aardman Animation — the folks behind Wallace & Gromit — you know that the studio’s latest, “Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom” is going ...

The Tower Theatre aims to reopen in time for its centennial in 2028. First, its nonprofit owners aim to raise $8.45 million for a massive renovation.

The Harley-riding entrepreneur who's "so chill" about fame joins the “RHOSLC” cast for Season 7, premiering Wednesday. “Every mean thing that someone could say to me, I’ve already been called. I just ...

I had utterly forgotten about “Practical Magic,” the 1998 darkish comedy with Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman as sisters who were witches and living under a curse that killed any man who fell in love...

Like many movie critics, I tend to be wary of scrappy low-budget movies made locally — for the same reason restaurant reviewers may not trash a substandard mom-and-pop restaurant, and save their criti...

The directors of “Edie Arnold Is a Loser” hope their tiny-budget indie about Catholic schoolgirls who form a punk band resonates like the nerdy cult classic made decades ago by BYU grads. It opens in ...

ALT: Tim Curry's Dr. Frank-N-Furter Iconic Smirk

Writer-director Jane Schoenbrun starts “Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma” as a scholarly dissertation on the cultural power of the American slasher film — and that’s not nearly as dry as you might...

"Today, Elwood and I lost a great friend and collaborator, and the world lost one of the most naturally innovative drummers and a great and true son of Texas," ZZ Top's Billy Gibbons said in a stateme...

The suburban horror-thriller “The End of Oak Street” is an efficient machine for delivering shocks with classic storytelling and modern movie technology — and gives a solid cast, led by Anne Hathaway ...

It’s strange for a movie with a premise as idiotically off-track as the one in the rom-com “One Night Only” to get made. Usually, someone at the studio or among the producers would strangle a bad idea...

Season 7 of "The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City" is coming this fall. Watch the trailer and see who's coming back — and who's new to the show.

The title “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” gives a hint that Kevin Feige and his Marvel Studios minions understand that the Marvel Cinematic Universe needs a refresh — and Peter Parker, the kid who became ...

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Hansard, who was 56, won the best song Oscar for the 2007 low-budget musical film Once.

The title “Spider-Man: Brand New Day” gives a hint that Kevin Feige and his Marvel Studios minions understand that the Marvel Cinematic Universe needs a refresh — and Peter Parker, the kid who became ...

Since Christopher Nolan has established that he is perhaps the greatest movie storyteller of our era, it seems fitting that he would tackle what should be considered the most influential story of any ...

Personal writing site for Sean P. Means, reporter/critic for The Salt Lake Tribune. Current movie reviews, and arts writing with a Utah connection.

Disney’s latest live-action remake of one of its animated movies, “Moana” has the same characters, the same music and the same sprightly pace of the 2016 original. What it lacks is a reason, other tha...

It’s been 16 years since Illumination Entertainment debuted with the villain-turned-good comedy “Despicable Me,” and it’s been at least two movies since any entry in the franchise have been worth anyo...

If you like your superheroes surly, then director Craig Gillespie’s “Supergirl” is right up your alley — though you may wish, as I did, for more for the young woman of steel to do in the second movie ...

ALT: Ian Maatsen Celebrates Goal for Aston Villa

It’s time to play with your favorite toys again, as Pixar bring out “Toy Story 5,” the latest chapter of the animation studio’s longest and most durable franchise — a witty and warm-hearted adventure ...

Though not a direct sequel to his 1977 masterpiece “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” director Steven Spielberg’s “Disclosure Day” shows the veteran director still has deep thoughts about humanity’...

Though not a direct sequel to his 1977 masterpiece “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” director Steven Spielberg’s “Disclosure Day” shows the veteran director still has deep thoughts about humanity’...

I acknowledge that I am not the recommended audience for “Masters of the Universe,” for two important reasons: 1) I was too old to be a fan of the oversized toy commercial of an animated series that r...

'Mina, a new Sicilian restaurant in Salt Lake City at 439 E. 900 South, focuses on Sicilian hospitality and food, often made with Utah ingredients.

The mind-bending suspense thriller “Backrooms” has a deliciously warped premise — a mystery space on the fringes of what we naively call reality — and tries to apply it to a few psychological themes, ...

A Salt Lake Tribune review of flight data identified a pattern.

Utah Eats: The Kolache Place has a new name and a new location in Sugar House. The founding Hruska siblings say their pastries, sweet and savory, are as good as ever.

Getting the journalism of The Salt Lake Tribune has always cost something to readers. Not anymore, as The Tribune is making its daily work free to anyone. Here’s what to know about accessing Utah’s no...

The premise for the new horror movie “Obsession” is simple and direct — with a “be careful what you wish for” message that’s echoed in the film’s advertising — but what makes this disturbing and stoma...

There may not be a mood that’s harder to get right on film than whimsy — so when a movie gets that delicate balance of humor, absurdity and charm just right, as “The Sheep Detectives” does brilliantly...

It may seem odd that a bubbly comedy like “The Devil Wears Prada 2” — a continuation of the Anne Hathaway / Meryl Streep fashion magazine franchise launched 20 years ago — would come out of the gate o...

Some of what’s in “Michael,” a family-authorized biographical drama on the life of pop icon Michael Jackson, is quite effective — for example, the way newcomer Jaafar Jackson captures his uncle’s danc...

The title of “Lee Cronin’s The Mummy” raises two question immediately: Who the f-bomb is Lee Cronin? And why is his take on the classic monster movie worth spending more than two hours of your life? ...

A University of Utah symposium examining the reality show was the "most fun" one speaker said she’d had in her “entire career.”

In some ways, “You, Me & Tuscany” is a thoroughly modern romantic comedy — in that it stars to impossibly good-looking actors and puts them in a situation that is less plausible than movies with dragons in them. But in a couple of key ways, director Kat Coiro’s movie is old-fashioned, start

After a faltering first step with “The Super Mario Bros. Movie,” which was a cringe-inducing example of putting commercial product over storytelling, video game giant Nintendo and animation house Illu...

I have to appreciate the absurd amount of spurting blood and flesh-chopping mayhem Russian director Kirill Sokolov packs into his first Hollywood feature, the comic gorefest “They Will Kill You” — eve...

For a movie set in the future and on a ship in outer space, there’s something gloriously retro in the craftsmanship of “Project Hail Mary" — from the movie-star charm of Ryan Gosling in the leading ro...