Reading Time: 2 minutes Ben Roden Staff Writer Early in the new disaster drama film Everest, journalist and climber Jon Krakauer (portrayed by Michael Kelly), poses questions to fellow adventurers while huddled around a table at Mount Everest base camp. “Why do you do it? Why climb Everest?” After a gravid pause, the climbers respond in boisterous unison with English […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes Muse | Photo by Danny Clinch Lee Thomas | Lifestyle Editor | @leenis85 Summer 2015 is shaping up to be better than ever for fans of escapism. With near constant releases from every different medium, let this be your guide through the digital jungle. Movies have historically been a huge draw in the warmer […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes UVU student Mike Brown and BYU students Casen and Landon Sperry gain Internet fame with weekly YouTube shorts. Freshman Mike Brown, a 24-year-old Digital Media major, has been collaborating with business partners Casen and Landon Sperry since he was 12 years old. “One of the very first things we talked about was that […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes Of all the cinematic genres, horror is one of the least pretentious. Scary movies don’t seek out critical acclaim. They don’t aspire to inspire. Horror films know what they’re about – frightening the ever-loving pants off you. No more, no less. Yet slasher flicks, gorefests and other types of terror serve an important emotional […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes As I finished the last page of Stephen King’s novel “Thinner,” I started to think of how the story could translate into film. There would be technical aspects, such as getting an overweight actor to loose weight during the course of the movie to the point he’s emaciated but I figured it would be an […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes The Cannonized Cinema column welcomes guest writers John-Ross Bocye and Matthew Jonassaint. The Great Depression had “City Lights.” The 60s had “The Graduate.” The films of John Hughes dominated the Me Decade. Every era has its important movies – the ones that are defined by their cultural context, and in turn inform future generations about […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes Want to know the quickest way to ruin a good movie? Make a sequel. Remember “Smokin’ Aces?” Of course you do. It was a great movie involving the Mafia, assassins and the F.B.I. with a twist at the end. “Remember Smokin’ Aces 2: Assassin’s Ball?” No, you do not because the writers/production company decided to […]
Reading Time: 4 minutes -Cannonized Cinema- This is the first of a three-part series. The first will discuss movies being released in June of 2011. The second will discuss movies being released in July 2011 and will be published on June 20. The last will discuss movies being released in August 2011 and will be published on […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Let’s face it, any woman with an ounce of estrogen yearns for the attention and royal treatment like that of the ever-so-suave Leopold, from “Kate and Leopold,” appropriately played by the sexiest Wolverine alive: Hugh Jackman. But how realistic is such yearning? Frankly (and quite unfortunately), we live in a world outside of the silver […]