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Steve Spielberg and pop-culture nostalgia dominate the multiplexes this Easter weekend, while art house offering include an Oscar-nominated Russian drama and a unique animated caper thriller.
Thousands of students, teachers and parents march to the State Capitol demanding action to curb gun violence.
An hour before the march got underway, a pro-Second Amendment rally was held across the street. The counter-protest was called “March Before Our Lives” and was hosted by the Utah Gun Exchange.
A sequel to a feature by Oscar-winner Guillermo del Toro—except without del Toro—leads off the multiplex offerings, while local art-house fare includes a blistering political satire from the creator of Veep. Pacific Rim: Uprising (pictured) loses the director's giddy monster mayhem, but finds perhaps the best Transformers movie yet.
Residents who live close to that area of the city, as well as conservationists worried about the wetlands that border the Great Salt Lake, feel that the state will disregard their voices.
A full post-Oscars week for local releases includes the winner for Foreign Language Film, genre thrillers from Ireland and Japan, and a much-anticipated adaptation of a classic fantasy novel. Director Ava DuVernay's version of Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time (pictured) overcomes sluggishness to deliver its empowering message with unsettling visual imagination.
