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Joshua Terry is an award-winning film critic and photographer who has taught English composition for Weber State since 2016. He appeared on the KJZZ Movie Show from 2013-2016, and spent seven years as the weekly film critic for the Deseret News in Salt Lake City. With degrees in Mass Communication and American Studies, he has worked simultaneously in local media and academia for more than fifteen years.
Dani Hatch is a Film Studies major with a minor in Business Administration. She does most of her work independently, which is featured on her YouTube channel and her blog. She is passionate about collaborating with others and she hopes to become a producer to professionally lead her own creative teams.
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Animated ‘War of the Rohirrim’ feels like weak remix of ‘Two Towers’
War of the Rohirrim (2 stars out of 4) The best thing about “War of the Rohirrim” is that it will send you out of the theater with Howard Shore’s “Lord of the Rings” themes echoing in your memory. Specifically, “Rohirrim” uses cues from 2002’s “The Two Towers,”...
‘Complete Unknown’ captures the enigmatic myth of Dylan
A Complete Unknown (3 ½ stars out of 4) A few years back I used to use Bob Dylan in my composition classes to illustrate the difference between text and context. First I’d play the studio version of, “Like A Rolling Stone,” and have my students analyze the lyrics and...
Diggin in for the 2024 ballot, Vol. 2
Catching Up – Late Nov. Transformers One (PG) As of now, we officially have two “good” Transformers movies, and the new one is good enough that you might not mind getting a sequel or two. “Transformers One” is the first fully-animated Transformers movie since “The...
Animated ‘War of the Rohirrim’ feels like weak remix of ‘Two Towers’
War of the Rohirrim (2 stars out of 4) The best thing about “War of the Rohirrim” is that it will send you out of the theater with Howard Shore’s “Lord of the Rings” themes echoing in your memory. Specifically, “Rohirrim” uses cues from 2002’s “The Two Towers,”...
‘Complete Unknown’ captures the enigmatic myth of Dylan
A Complete Unknown (3 ½ stars out of 4) A few years back I used to use Bob Dylan in my composition classes to illustrate the difference between text and context. First I’d play the studio version of, “Like A Rolling Stone,” and have my students analyze the lyrics and...
Diggin in for the 2024 ballot, Vol. 2
Catching Up – Late Nov. Transformers One (PG) As of now, we officially have two “good” Transformers movies, and the new one is good enough that you might not mind getting a sequel or two. “Transformers One” is the first fully-animated Transformers movie since “The...