{Ak_posted} Heading into the final festival weekend, Salt Lake City Sundancers have a chance to see a couple of the best films in both the U.S. Dramatic and U.S. ...

{Ak_posted} It's an icy Salt Lake City day, but the shows go one for local Sundancers. --- Tonight's Ogden offering is one of the festival's best: the delig...

{Ak_posted} A couple of the festival's most talked-about films are among the choices for Salt Lake City and Ogden Sundancers. --- The one true can't-miss fi...

{Ak_posted} A tiny town in Alabama, Muscle Shoals, produced one of the most distinctive sounds -- and many of the most legendary tracks -- in rock & roll hist...

{Ak_posted} In a Facebook announcement today, Utah County-based, former City Weekly Music Awards winner Neon Trees said that they have cancelled their concert on ...

{Ak_posted} A couple of romantic comedies, and a even a documentary love story of sorts, are among the solid options for Salt Lake City/Ogden Sundancers. --- C...

{Ak_posted} I don’t go to church, but I imagine that when church works at its deepest and most meaningful levels, it feels something like last night’s...

{Ak_posted} "Art is not a mirror held up to reality, but a hammer with which to shape it." -- Bertolt Brecht. So begins the saga of three Russian perfor...

{Ak_posted} With an abundance of musicians -- some seemingly odd bedfellows -- cross pollinating their skills on one stage to perform some of the best songs in th...

{Ak_posted} Dozens of films have already premiered in the first weekend of the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. Here are the ones we've had a chance to review so far....

{Ak_posted} Stealth shooting at Disneyland, a mysterious Matthew McConaughey, and Harry Potter as you've never seen him before are among the more promising offeri...

{Ak_posted} A fresh, six-part documentary series, New American Noise, premiered during Sundance Film Festival on Friday and will have an encore performance Sunday...

{Ak_posted} Ramy Essam wrote “Irhal” on Tahrir Square in minutes, but that song became the rallying cry for demonstrators during the Egyptian Revoluti...

{Ak_posted} A Twitter commenter yesterday praised the U.S. Competition documentary God Loves Uganda as "most important documentary in years." But there'...

{Ak_posted} In a return of our annual tradition, here are suggestions for Locals Quick Pass holders and other Utah-based Sundancers regarding where to focus their...

{Ak_posted} The 2013 Sundance Film Festival kicked off the way it pretty much always kicks off: with a couple of movies, and a whole lot of speculation. --- ...

{Ak_posted} Musician Kim Taylor made her acting debut in I Used to be Darker, which screens at Sundance this week. She will also perform an intimate concert Jan. ...

{Ak_posted} The 2013 Sundance Film Festival kicks off today. And with it, ChefDance 2013 fires up the stoves, beginning tomorrow evening. ---  Founded by Park ...

{Ak_posted} The mink coats, furry boots, pantaloons and spray-on tans of the Sundance Film Festival are on display on a new Tumblr.--- For many...

Posted // January 17,2013  - Sundance doc puts backup singers up front Gil Friesen, former president of A&M Records, was at a Leonard Cohen performance several y ...

Posted // January 16,2013  - How to find your kind of films at Sundance Picking the right Sundance film requires knowing something about the films. But it also re ...

Posted // January 16,2013  - What to expect from films based on the source material Obligatory tautological disclaimer: A movie is a movie, and a book is a book. Not only can ...

Posted // January 16,2013  - Let directors' previous works guide you You might not think you’ve seen too many movies by directors in the 2013 Sundance Fi ...

Posted // January 16,2013  - Riots, metal, The Swampers and even The Eagles show up in this year's Sundance Film Festival lineup One of my favorite experiences at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival wasn’t a movie or ...

Posted // January 15,2013  - Where to grab a quick bite in SLC Local Sundance Film Festival attendees—and perhaps, particularly, Locals Quick Pass ...

Posted // January 16,2013  - Audrey Ewell directed collaborative film Audrey Ewell and her film partner, Aaron Aites, are the director-producers of 99%: The Occ ...

Posted // January 16,2013  - 8 little-known facts about Sundance Eight little-known facts about the Sundance Film Festival ...

{Ak_posted} Everyone and their cousin is trying to scope out the Next Big Thing from Sundance 2013. So, what do the lists say when you put them all together? --- ...

{Ak_posted} For years, the Sundance Film Festival has offered special package deals to Utah residents. For the first time, Slamdance is also making it easier tha...

{Ak_posted} The Sundance Film Festival wouldn’t be much without the glitter, the glitz and, of course, the groupies and the music they love. Oh, yes, live m...

Posted // January 11,2013  - A-list eats on a B-list budget Folks taking in the Sundance Film Festival at Salt Lake City and Ogden venues have a wide ...

Posted // January 14,2013  - Where to find wine lists, cocktails & more If you’re in Park City to take in any or all of the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, it& ...

{Ak_posted} Plenty of filmmakers and other Sundance attendees will be tweeting madly about their visit to Utah. Here's where to keep up with some of them. --- ...

{Ak_posted} Local Sundancers get a look at the life of a stand-up comic and a couple of intriguing documentaries tonight. --- The highlight of the early evenin...

{Ak_posted} Sundance documentaries are often savvy about catching of-the-moment topics. In 2012, the ubiquity and power of social media continue to be a subject o...

{Ak_posted} Heading into the final weekend, catch one of the festival's best performances, and its biggest adrenaline rush. --- The early evening SLC slot offe...

{Ak_posted} The popular perception of Sundance films involves seriousness: gritty dramas, documentaries about urgent issues, etc. But the festival is sometimes at...

{Ak_posted} "There's nothing less funny than talking about being funny," said Jon Korn to begin the Sundance Film Festival's "Wide World of Wit&quo...

{Ak_posted} Documentaries are heavy on the schedule, with a dose of frisky romantic comedy as dessert for Salt Lake Sundancers. --- This afternoon leads off wit...

{Ak_posted} The story of hip-hop pioneers the Sugar Hill Gang has a whole lotta (hip-hop) hippity hop. It is one that goes well beyond the cliched musician’...

{Ak_posted} On top of exploring the unique atmosphere of composing a film score, the BMI Composer/Director Roundtable at Sundance is an excellent way to see how t...

{Ak_posted} Yes, there are definitely certain plots that seem to recur in Sundance movies. But what a film is about isn’t the same as how it’s about w...

{Ak_posted} Do your tastes tend towards the subtly emotional, or the genuinely experimental? Both options are available today to SLC Sundancers. --- Word on th...

{Ak_posted} Romance -- for better and for worse -- heads the list of top picks for Salt Lake City Sundancers. --- The gem of the early evening slot is writer/d...

{Ak_posted} “If Death is Life, then we want to scare you to Life,” was just one of the many golden-phrased bits of propaganda that helped launch Slipk...

{Ak_posted} When you come to a festival like Sundance, you can expect a wide variety of approaches to even the most familiar of premises—even something as s...

{Ak_posted} We're not even at the halfway point of Sundance 2012. Here's a roundup of a dozen reviews from over the weekend. --- Simon Killer (U.S. Competition)...

{Ak_posted} There are fewer top-notch options for today, but you might  be able to find at least one winner in every slot. --- The early afternoon pick is...

{Ak_posted} Our geek friends will be thrilled to know director Peter Jackson is a pretty down-to-earth, rumpled guy in real life, which clearly hasn't cramped his...

{Ak_posted} Dodging the blizzard at Sundance Saturday that will surely be talked about for years to come, at least by anyone who witnessed I-80 over Parley's at s...

{Ak_posted} For the CW Sundance 2012 preview feature, we offered purely speculative predictions about which of two films on a similar theme would wind up being m...

{Ak_posted} Here's a look at all the Sundance 2012 films we've had a chance to review over the first day and a half. --- The Law in These Parts (World Documen...

{Ak_posted} There are plenty of great options for local Sundancers today. Too bad most of them are at the same time. --- In the early slot, early word on the s...

{Ak_posted} Terence Etc. graced the first day of the Sundance ASCAP Music Cafe with his brand of vulnerable, insightful soul.--- I missed A Fine Frenzy,...

{Ak_posted} There undoubtedly wasn't a better guitar player in Park City on the opening day of the Sundance Film Festival than Gary Clark Jr., as he demonstrated ...

{Ak_posted} The lovely songstress Jenny O. will take the Sundance ASCAP Music Cafe stage this Saturday and Sunday. She answered a couple of questions via e-mail b...

{Ak_posted} Every day throughout the festival, we'll advise Salt Lakers where to use their Sundance Locals Quick Passes, or where to try to wait-list. --- ...

{Ak_posted} The first day of Sundance film festival screenings inspired thoughts about the way filmmakers control their movies to affect the way viewers think abo...

{Ak_posted} The legendary John Forte, who will be playing the Sundance ASCAP Music Cafe this weekend, took some time to answer some of our questions via e-mail.--...

{Ak_posted} What was originally intended as a showcase of a popular Canadian radio show at the Sundance Film Festival turned into a poignant remembrance of Canadi...

Posted // January 19,2012  - Huka Bar, Fats & Lucky 13 If you’re in town for the film festivals and find yourself wandering about in the va ...

Posted // January 19,2012  - More bang for your film buck If you're facing the question of how to choose between two films that seem superficially s ...

Posted // January 18,2012  - 8 Sundance 2012 panels not to miss Eight Sundance Film Festival panels and roundtables not to miss this year ... ...

Posted // January 18,2012  - Music happenings in & around Sundance Music happenings in and around the Sundance Film Festival 2012 ... ...