From stars to snowdrifts, there’s nothing quite like the annual moviegoing extravaganza in Park City, Utah. This list offers a taste of the festival.
Entertainment Columns
Kris Manzano certainly never would have chosen the current political climate.
Mike Plante’s most impressive title, by far, is senior programmer for the Sundance Film Festival. But that lacks the panache of his new position with the Las Vegas Film Festival.
You think you’re ready for cooler weather?
The rest of 2016 may have been a raging dumpster fire, but there was at least one category in which the year was better than its predecessor: local ties to movies. Meanwhile, on TV, Paula Francis ends a long career as news anchor for KLAS-TV, Channel 8.
Summer’s over. The kids are in school. It’s safe for grown-ups to come out of hiding.
“A Most Violent Year,” the latest from buzzed-about writer-director J.C. Chandor (“Margin Call,” “All Is Lost”), is blessed with stirring, sit-up-and-take-notice performances by Oscar Isaac and Jessica Chastain.
The next two months will unleash a torrent of high-profile movies, but writer-director Christopher Nolan’s “Interstellar” is guaranteed to be the biggest of them all. Literally.
The trailer for “Guardians of the Galaxy” debuted in February, and its peculiar tone, coupled with its liberal use of Blue Swede’s “Hooked on a Feeling,” made it the one summer blockbuster I was verifiably tingly to see.
Pity the old-timer who, after seeing the posters and only half-watching the commercials, buys a ticket for “A Million Ways to Die in the West” without even a passing awareness of its co-writer, director and star, Seth MacFarlane. The poor guy may never leave his Barcalounger again.
Your girlfriend/wife/mistress will want to see this movie. You will not. But pay attention to the pie scene.
It’s being positioned as “The Hangover” for the stooped over. A raucous “Cocoon” in a casino. But “Last Vegas” isn’t that movie.
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