http://www.cityweekly.net/utah/articles.sec-8490-1-dvds.html By MaryAnn Johanson

It’s the most wonderful time of the year—when we movie lovers try to second-guess the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences.]]> By MaryAnn Johanson

Did you miss Beastly and Red Riding Hood at your local multiplex this winter? Chances are you did ... but be on the lookout for many more flicks just like them.]]> By MaryAnn Johanson

You think tax time is a plot to drive you mad with its incomprehensible financial gobbledygook? Have you seen Trading Places, the brilliant 1983 comedy that culminates in a trading-floor finale involving frozen orange-juice ...]]> By MaryAnn Johanson

Chances are pretty good that at least a few of the actors who take home Oscar statues on Feb. 27 for their work in 2010 will be names that inspire nothing but bewilderment for the average moviegoer ...]]> By MaryAnn Johanson

I don’t get football. It’s not a great loss in my life, but it does mystify me that so many people seem so invested in it. I finally got a hint of what the appeal is a few years ago...]]> By MaryAnn Johanson

It’s been almost a quarter of a century since Max Headroom—the visionary 1987-1988 ABC science-fiction series—graced TV screens, but my memories of it have never faded...]]> By MaryAnn Johanson

Blowout preventer—that sounds pretty good right about now. Not for the crack at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico that’s spewing oil, but for me ...]]> By MaryAnn Johanson

Explosions! Super-powered fisticuffs! Cool sci-fi gadgets! Caped flight! That’s all the appeal of comic-book action movies is about—right? Everyone knows that. Don’t they?]]> By MaryAnn Johanson

I've been a Roku user for almost a year, and it's edging so darn close to my dream— and I love it so much—that once in a while, I get frustrated that it isn't actually closer...]]> By MaryAnn Johanson

Whip It arrived on DVD on Jan. 26. What’s that? You’ve never heard of Whip It? It’s a film about women doing something other than fretting about babies...]]> By MaryAnn Johanson

But we all know winter ain’t like that. How come no one onscreen is ever keeling over from a heart attack after shoveling heavy snow for four hours?]]>