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Young Woman and the Sea, Ezra, Summer Camp, In a Violent Nature and more
The Dead Don’t Hurt ***
Viggo Mortensen seems fully aware of the dangers of “fridging”—that cinematic trope whereby violence befalling a woman becomes a man’s motivation to action—so he wisely subverts it in his sophomore feature as writer/director. Mortensen plays Olsen, a Danish immigrant in mid-19th-century America who meets Vivienne (Vicky Krieps) while traveling in San Francisco.
Scott Lippitt live video, Garage on Beck reopens, tickets at City Weekly store
Scott Lippitt: Live at Kilby Court video
Back in April, Scott Lippitt and a handful of some incredible local artists released a collaboration album entitled Me, You, and the Avenues, a beautiful look at the beloved SLC area and those who create there.
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, The Garfield Movie, Babes, The Beach Boys, Sight, Atlas
Atlas **1/2
Netflix has seemingly become the de facto home of sturdy, 1990s-style genre adventures, and director Brad Peyton (Rampage, San Andreas) is just the guy to keep that ball rolling. Jennifer Lopez stars as Atlas Shepherd, an intelligence analyst in a near-future where a rogue A.I. entity called Harlan (Simu Liu) once launched a war against humanity, then escaped to a distant planet to regroup after suffering losses.
Bluegrassroots Festival, Fork Fest and CW Store tickets
Timpanogos Bluegrassroots Festival
If you thought you had all of the summer music festivals mapped out, think again—because here’s a couple more for you.
IF, Back to Black, I Saw the TV Glow, Evil Does Not Exist
Back to Black **
In this post-Walk Hard world, musical biopics need to at least put in some effort not to feel lazy and ridiculous—and this one doesn’t put in nearly enough. This profile of singer/songwriter Amy Winehouse (Marisa Abela) covers approximately the last decade of her life, opening with her as an 18-year-old Londoner with dreams of getting into the music biz, moving through her eventual record deal, and into stardom with its accompanying fame-and-fortune pitfalls, particularly the substance abuse that would ultimately take her life in 2011 at the age of 27.
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, We Grown Now, Force of Nature: The Dry 2, Nowhere Special and more
Force of Nature: The Dry 2 **1/2
As was true in 2020’s The Dry—writer/director Robert Connolly’s previous adaptation of a Jane Harper novel about Australian federal agent Aaron Falk (Eric Bana)—the structure of this follow-up assumes we’re far more invested in the backstory of our protagonist than in everything going on around him. It deals with the aftermath of a corporate wilderness retreat gone wrong, as a woman named Alice (Anna Torv) goes missing—just as she was about to turn over evidence as an informant for Falk against her shady financial-services employer (Richard Roxburgh).
The Fall Guy, The Idea of You, Turtles All the Way Down, The People's Joker and more
The Fall Guy ***
It seems only fitting that the summer movie season should kick off with a feature that’s consistently effervescent and entertaining, and rarely pushes at being anything more. This loose adaptation of the 1980s Lee Majors-starring TV series casts Ryan Gosling as Colt Seavers, a veteran stuntman who experiences an on-set accident that breaks his back and ends his relationship with aspiring director Jody (Emily Blunt); 18 months later, attempts a comeback on a sci-fi epic that marks Jody’s feature directing debut, and requires Colt to hunt down the movie’s missing star (Aaron Taylor-Johnson).
