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Paddleton, Hail Satan?, Share, The Disappearance of My Mother and more
Paddleton (Premieres) ***1/2
There's a moment about mid-way through Paddleton when Michael (Mark Duplass) and Andy (Ray Romano) are checking into a hotel while on a road trip together, and the proprietor just assumes that they must be a gay couple. There's a deep connection between them, she senses, and culturally we simply don't have a language for love between two men that is purely platonic.
Family-friendly Arthurian legend and the story of a legendary comedy duo lead the multiplex offerings during this opening Sundance Film Festival weekend.
After the Wedding (Premieres) **1/2
Virtually every time Michelle Williams gets a lead role in a movie, the inevitable response is “Michelle Williams should get a lead role in more movies." She makes for a pretty solid Mads Mikkelsen in writer/director Bart Freundlich's gender-swapped English-language remake of the 2006 Susanne Bier drama, starring as Isabelle, the manager of an orphanage in India who is summoned to New York by millionaire media tycoon Theresa (Julianne Moore, Freundlich's real-life partner) to be considered for a sizeable donation.
By Scott Renshaw and Victor Morton
Jan 25, 2019 8:25 am
Guv fields questions on the legislative session, less than a week before lawmakers gather at Capitol Hill.
Herbert noted science has advanced since the landmark Supreme Court Roe v. Wade decision, and questioned whether abortion should be banned earlier than 20 weeks.
Newly minted Sen. Mitt Romney answers shutdown and border wall questions at first town hall.
“Some of the tweets and some of the things the president has said are not uniting to our party or uniting to our country, and when that happens,” Romney said.
2,000 people march on the Capitol in solidarity with women state- and countrywide.
PANDOS members were among the police-estimated 2,000 people who marched through Salt Lake City on Saturday to participate in the national Women’s March.
Biskupski highlights affordable housing, air pollution and public transportation in her annual State of the City speech.
Twenty-five years ago, before she was Salt Lake City’s first openly gay mayor, Jackie Biskupski tuned into a television news update and was dismayed by what she saw: students from East High were being harassed by their peers, teachers and parents because they wanted to start Utah’s first Gay-Straight Alliance. “The courage of the East High students altered the course of my life,” Biskupski told a packed East High cafeteria Thursday night.
Even with Hobbitville residents evicted, historic community remnants could live on.
Raucous kids weren’t the only banished from Hobbitville. Members of Preservation Utah, a local nonprofit that has long been interested in helping the park’s notable buildings gain a place on the National Register of Historic Places, were also told to pack up.
M. Night Shyamalan tries to paste two movies together to create a cinematic universe
Observing the career of M. Night Shyamalan over the 20 years since The Sixth Sense made him a cinematic superstar has been a deeply baffling experience.
