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Leetham Strikes Out Solo with New Single
Pop continues to rise in Utah thanks to artists like Luke Leetham, who after six years of playing in bands—some during high school—is finally starting his own project.
For the next seven days, we'll be providing running coverage of the feature programming at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival. This list will be updated several times daily with new titles, with newest capsule reviews at the top of the queue.
By Scott Renshaw and Victor Morton
Jan 29, 2021 7:30 am
The Dig **1/2
This fact-based historical drama takes such an odd structural turn that I’m still not sure whether it’s admirable or a complete mess. In 1939, widowed landowner Edith Pretty (Carey Mulligan) employs self-taught archaeologist Basil Brown (Ralph Fiennes) to excavate earthen mounds on her Suffolk estate—where he unexpectedly discovers the remnants of a ship.
One of the few constant virtual shows still running, the Doom Basement shows hosted in the spacious basement of local musician Dave Payne are still going up on Twitch every week on most Wednesdays and Thursdays.
This time around for it’s monthly 12 Minutes Max program, the Salt Lake City Library will feature, as always, three multimedia subjects of entertainment, featuring some locals and ex-locals in the music mix.
The Marksman, Locked Down, MLK/FBI, Outside the Wire and more
Locked Down **1/2
I may be the only person in the world who thinks Doug Liman’s Mr. & Mrs. Smith is an unacknowledged masterpiece, but nevertheless I perked up when I started to suspect that the director was exploring similar territory. The screenplay by Steven Knight (Dirty Pretty Things) is set during the early days of the coronavirus lockdown in London in spring 2020, with longtime partners Linda (Anne Hathaway) and Paxton (Chiwetel Ejiofor) stuck together just as their relationship is unraveling.
While we try to keep a local focus here on the City Weekly Music Buzz Bog, January is the driest month for shows and music even when we're not in a pandemic; everyone has that post-holiday fatigue.
I Blame Society, The Weasels' Tale, One Night in Miami... and more
I Blame Society **1/2
It’s a (kinda literally) killer idea co-writer/director/star Gillian Wallace Horvat has for a satire of being a woman trying to make a career as a filmmaker, but unfortunately one that’s much more effective in theory than in her execution.
