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The latest on legislators’ efforts to overwrite full Medicaid expansion in Utah.
Rep. Brian King, D-Salt Lake City, questioned whether SB 96 was fiscally responsible and expressed doubt about CMS granting Utah the waivers it needs to expand Medicaid, per SB 96.
The best, the worst, the most political, the biggest crowd-pleasers and more.
Another Sundance Film Festival is in the books, with all the attendant buzz, Park City gridlock, celebrity sightings and good old-fashioned movie love. Our critics covered 75 features over the 11 days of the festival; here’s a roundup of that coverage.
By Scott Renshaw, Victor Morton and Steven D. Greydanus
Feb 4, 2019 2:14 pm
Paradise Hills, The Death of Dick Long, Queen of Hearts, Imaginary Order and more
Paradise Hills (NEXT) **
Allegorical science-fiction is hard enough to pull off without profound confusion as to what you’re being allegorical about. Emma Roberts plays Uma, a young woman involuntarily committed by her mother to an idyllic “center for emotional healing” where she and other young women are trained to be what other people want them to be.
By Scott Renshaw and Victor Morton
Feb 2, 2019 1:26 pm
Gymnastics, Medicaid and taxes, oh my! Week 1 of the legislative session is all wrapped up.
As the aerialists flipped and spun below, one activist remained concerned about what was happening a few floors above, where lawmakers were wrestling with how to change the state’s expansion of Medicaid.
Honey Boy, Sweetheart, The Brink, One Child Nation and more.
Honey Boy (U.S. Dramatic) *
No point in mincing words: I found this enterprise distasteful—essentially a Daddie Dearest for the therapeutic society. Scripted by Shia LeBeouf, it tells two parallel stories involving Otis, a child-adult star very like LeBeouf.
By Scott Renshaw, Victor Morton and Steven D. Greydanus
Feb 1, 2019 8:35 am
