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.
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
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.
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
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,
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.
POSTED // Apr 20,2012 - For weeks, the story surrounding Lee Hirsch’s documentary Bully has been about not the movie itself, but about one little letter—the letter “R.”
POSTED // Apr 20,2012 - Terence Davies’ adaptation of Terrence Rattigan’s 1952 play invites the kind of question we should always be so fortunate to ask: Is Rattigan’s text that timeless, or is Davies’ sense for how to interpret it cinematically that remarkable?
POSTED // Apr 13,2012 - Two men in white shirts (Richard Jenkins and Bradley Whitford) have a conversation around a water cooler about mundane topics, like one of them dealing with a wife gone over-the-top with baby-proofing