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Dueling 1931 ‘Dracula’ returning to the big screen nationwide

What better season than Halloween to have a special “Dracula” movie event in six northern Utah locations?Fathom Events, Turner Classic Movies and Universal Pictures Home Entertainment are presenting the classic 1931 vampire film “Dracula” to theaters nationwide on Sunday, Oct. 25, and ...

‘Chasing Shadows’ to screen at Peery’s

OGDEN —Three screenings of the snowsports film <strong>“Chasing Shadows”</strong> will be presented by Warren Miller Entertainment and Peery’s Egyptian Theater.The film features JT Holmes, Seth Wescott, Caroline Gleich and Steven Nyman exhibiting the dynamics ...

‘Experimenter’ is a movie as experimental as its subject

When I was in college at SUU and attending various Psych and Soc 101 classes, we learned of Stanley Milgram and his experiments. Well, we didn’t learn about all of them, just one in particular: his famous (some would say infamous) behavior experiment; one that was deemed both radical and ...

‘The Last Witch Hunter’ hunts for last-minute twists

I’m not sure why we needed another film about a secret war waging in the background of civilization between humans and (pick your threat here), but here it is. I’m also not sure why the screenplay for this film was featured in the 2010 Blacklist, which is a list of the "most liked" unmade ...

‘Rock the Kasbah’ is amusing but hollow

“Rock the Kasbah” is another vehicle for Bill Murray penned by Mitch Glazer (“Scrooged, 1988), and directed by politically minded Barry Levinson (“Wag the Dog,” “Sleepers,” “Good Morning Vietnam”), but it doesn’t quite have the cleverness of Glazer’s earlier efforts or the ...

Video Rewinds’ 10 favorite horror films for Halloween

<em>Here are our 10 preferred horror films, just in time for Halloween, from Video Rewind film pundits Doug Gibson and Steve D. Stones</em>(<em>I hold these films in high esteem for many reasons. Don’t assume the first I mention is the most ...

6 favorite botched ‘Back to the Future’ predictions

Almost everyone’s still fixated on cars, so that much is true about <a href="http://www.backtothefuture.com/" target="_blank">Back to the Future</a>. But the 1985 film, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/bttfseries" target="_blank">tied to an Oct. 21, ...

Twitter responds to #BoycottStarWarsVII and doesn’t disappoint

Someone started the Twitter hashtag “<a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23BoycottStarWarsVII&src=typd" target="_blank">#BoycottStarWarsVII</a>” because one of the lead characters is black (and the other is a woman) in the upcoming film "Star ...

Films on the Great Salt Lake to show at WSU

OGDEN — As part of its fall 2015 lecture series, the Weber Historical Society presents two, free film screenings titled <strong>“Desert Water: A New Water Ethic”</strong> and <strong>“Desert Water: Climate Change and the Future of the Great Salt ...

‘Crimson Peak’ is forgettable good-looking garbage

Don’t believe the hype. If Guillermo del Toro weren’t attached or the cinematography so impressive, “Crimson Peak” would be just another forgettable Halloween staple wannabe instead of being compared to Hitchcock’s classics. Too many people seem too in love with del Toro to admit that ...