by Travis Poppleton | Feb 5, 2020 | Movie News
MANDERLY — It was no small feat for British director, Alfred Hitchcock, to take home his first and only Academy Award for Best Picture back in 1940. The filmmaker already known for films like “The Man Who Knew Too Much” and “Jamaica Inn” chose...
by Travis Poppleton | Sep 25, 2019 | Featured, FilmInUtah, Movie News, Utah
OLD TIMEY UTAH – Last month, we kicked off our monthly KSL classic movie feature with the ever-controversial “The Birth of a Nation.” It was, admittedly, a heavy intro to this series, but we knew we had to get it out of the way. There’s no version of film history that...
by Travis Poppleton | Aug 14, 2019 | Featured, mainStory, Movie News
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...
by Travis Poppleton | Jul 10, 2018 | Featured, Movie News
THE LIVING ROOM — A few months ago, I wrote an article about “7 essential movies for film buffs currently streaming on Netflix and Amazon Prime.” The article focused on classic movies available on popular streaming services that in some way changed the filmmaking...
by Travis Poppleton | Jul 6, 2018 | Featured, FrontPage, Movie News, StateOfMovies
I always found it weird when people would nod off in film class. To me, learning where writers and directors came up with their ideas has always been wildly fascinating, so when I’d see someone dip their head a few minutes after the lights were flipped, I’d want to...
by admin | Jul 5, 2018 | Movie News, Utah
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....
