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The Dictator

Comedy without unwitting suckers

By Scott Renshaw
POSTED // May 16,2012 - With The Dictator, Sacha Baron Cohen finds himself addressing a situation no entertainer wants to confront: What do you do when the shtick that was your bread & butter just can’t work anymor

Film Reviews

Dark Shadows

The Burton/Depp joint goes sour

By Scott Renshaw
POSTED // May 11,2012 - Dark Shadows marks the eighth collaboration between director Tim Burton and Johnny Depp over a span of more than 20 years, and in some ways you could certainly say the partnership has been a fruitful

Film Reviews

Undefeated

The simple power of affecting a life

By Scott Renshaw
POSTED // May 11,2012 - When Undefeated scored a victory in the Documentary Feature category at this year’s Academy Awards, it would have been easy to take the cynical view that it was simply another Triumph of the Cam

Theater

WTC: Chapter Two

Where you sit surprisingly important

By Scott Renshaw
POSTED // May 8,2012 - Think carefully about where you sit in the Rose Wagner Studio Theater for Wasatch Theatre Company’s production of Neil Simon’s Chapter Two.

Theater

PTC: Man of La Mancha

Charles Morey's farewell production

By Scott Renshaw
POSTED // May 8,2012 - When a single song is as iconically associated with a musical as “The Impossible Dream” is with Man of La Mancha ...

Film Reviews

The Avengers

Wait for the ass-kickings to commence

By Scott Renshaw
POSTED // May 4,2012 - From Harry Potter to Twilight, from The Hunger Games to the new Marvel’s The Avengers and every comic-book movie that has preceded it, adaptations of beloved pop-culture properties face a question that is rarely asked

Film Reviews

Damsels in Distress

A lot of words, but not a lot to say

By Scott Renshaw
POSTED // May 4,2012 - Whit Stillman’s character always had plenty to say. So don’t blame the 14-year gap since his last feature for the sheer verbal density of Damsels in Distress.

Cover Story

Funny Business

Think you know Utah stand-up comedy? The joke's on you

By Scott Renshaw
POSTED // May 2,2012 - It’s Tuesday night at The Complex, where it’s likely you’d be taking in a concert and shaking some serious booty. Yet this crowd is far from rowdy. Most of the 20 or so men and women gathered are bent over spiral notebooks

Film Reviews

The Pirates! Band of Misfits

High-quality animation with a British twist

By Scott Renshaw
POSTED // Apr 27,2012 - America’s movie buffs have had a love affair with Aardman Animations—creators of The Pirates! Band of Misfits—for years. The American general public, on the other hand … well,

Other A&E

Magical Music of John Williams

Next generation introduced to classical music

By Scott Renshaw
POSTED // Apr 23,2012 - One has certain preconceptions about appropriate attire for the symphony. A Wookiee costume probably isn’t the first thing that comes to mind.
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