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WhySound Fundraiser, New Year concert with Michelle Moonshine and Jonny Gold
WhySound Hosts Live Stream Fundraiser
Tonight, Wednesday, Dec. 30, tune in to WhySound’s Instagram page for a live-stream fundraising event for the venue.
Herself ***
The title serves an effective dual meaning—an Irish idiom referring to someone else if they seem to be getting a little big for their britches, and a sense of being on your own—in this earnest drama from director Phyllida Lloyd and co-writer/star Clare Dunne.
News of the World, Promising Young Woman, WW84, Soul and more
The Dissident ***
Director Bryan Fogel takes a hot-button international incident—the murder of Saudi-born journalist Jamal Khashoggi in October 2018 at the Saudi embassy in Turkey, apparently in retaliation for his criticism of the country’s leadership—and makes it work as a character study, a historical primer on Saudi politics, a love story and a procedural thriller. The character study side provides not just the story of Khashoggi himself and his growing frustrations with the royal family where he was once an insider, but of his friend and fellow expatriate Saudi Omar Abdulaziz Alzahrani, who paints a vivid, terrifying portrait of the perils awaiting those who speak out.
A commentary on the danger of "more more more" can't practice what it preaches.
Is there any particular reason for WW84—which, to be clear, is the only title that ever appears on screen, rather than Wonder Woman 1984—to be set in 1984? That would seem to be a fair question, just as much as asking why the first one was set during The Great War.
KUAA likes to call themselves “the little radio station that could,” and they’ve certainly been chugging along in the two short years they’ve been broadcasting their diverse, multi-lingual-focused music to the people of the greater SLC area.
Greenland, Fatale, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom and more
Breach *1/2
I feel kind of sorry for the editing team that had to try to make something out of the low-budget science-fiction junk they were handed as raw material. Set in the year 2242 as earth is being abandoned to apocalyptic catastrophe, it follows passenger and crew aboard the last spacecraft taking colonists to “New Earth”—including stowaway Noah (Cody Kearsley) and his pregnant girlfriend Hayley (Cassandra Clementi)—only to discover that a malevolent alien entity is also on board.
Let Them All Talk, The Midnight Sky, I'm Your Woman, Wolfwalkers and more
Assassins **1/2
In the Kuala Lumpur, Maylasia airport in February 2017, two young women—Siti Aisyah and Doan Thi Huong—rubbed a highly toxic nerve agent in the face of Kim Jong-nam, the exiled half-brother of North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, resulting in his death. But why did they do it, and who was behind it?
If now’s about the time you’re starting to consider your gift shopping, Provo’s Beehive Bazaar has got you covered, especially if you’re looking to support local musicians this giving season.
