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Scott Renshaw
Scott Renshaw has been a City Weekly staff member since 1999, including assuming the role of primary film critic in 2001 and Arts & Entertainment Editor in 2003. Scott has covered the Sundance Film Festival for 25 years, and provided coverage of local arts including theater, pop-culture conventions, comedy, literature, dance and visual arts. He has a BA in English from Stanford University, and covered theater for the Palo Alto Weekly before relocating to Utah in 1997.
In 2016, Scott's first book, Happy Place: Living the Disney Parks Life was released by Critical Press, exploring the fan communities of Disney theme parks. In addition to his role at City Weekly, he is a regular contributor for MiceChat.com, and is a member and former president of the Utah Film Critics Association.
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- Blog, Buzz Blog March 20, 2025
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Film Reviews: New Releases for March 21
Snow White, The Alto Knights, Locked, The Assessment, On Becoming a Guinea Fowl and more
- Culture, Arts & Entertainment March 19, 2025
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Theater preview: Dan Froot & Company's Arms Around America
Stories of guns in America cover a broad range of perspectives on a volatile issue.
- Dan Froot understands how potential viewers of Arms Around America might think about a theater production that takes a position of curiosity and openness to the issue of guns in America—because it's the way he himself used to think about it.
- Culture, Film Reviews March 19, 2025
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Movie reviews: THE ALTO KNIGHTS, THE ASSESSMENT, ON BECOMING A GUINEA FOWL
Disturbing characters sit at the center of three new theatrical releases.
- All actors want a challenge, so maybe it sounded interesting in theory to Robert De Niro to attempt a variation on GoodFellas where he played both his character and Joe Pesci's character.
- Blog, Buzz Blog March 13, 2025
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Film Reviews: New Releases for March 14
Black Bag, Novocaine, The Electric State, The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie, Control Freak
- Culture, Arts & Entertainment March 12, 2025
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2025 St. Patrick's Day events in Utah
Parade at the Gateway, bar crawl, 4th West Fest, Leprechaun Haunted House and more.
- If you want to start your celebrations as early as possible, enjoy an evening at Irish pub Piper Down featuring live music by Celtic punk favorites Murphy and the Giant, plus traditional bagpipe and drum tunes from the Heathen Highlanders.
- Culture, Film Reviews March 12, 2025
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Movie reviews: Novocaine, The Day the Earth Blew Up, Control Freak
Hostage scenarios, parasitic ghosts and the literal end of the world in three new releases.
- It's not entirely necessary to add a germ of effective subtext to a story that works largely as a hyper-violent action-comedy, but I have to admit that I kind of appreciate the effort.
- Blog, Buzz Blog March 6, 2025
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Film Reviews: New Releases for March 7
Mickey 17, The Rule of Jenny Pen, Queen of the Ring, CHAOS: The Manson Murders and more
- Culture, Film Reviews March 5, 2025
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RULE BREAKERS, and March 2025 special screenings
"Battle Royales," The Wizard of Oz, Still Working 9 to 5, Dune: Parts One and Two
- The "underdog competition movie" is about as tried-and-true as any genre in cinema history, but it's a little weird when you create one where the stakes may be life-and-death, but underplay it as just a feel-good story.
- Blog, Buzz Blog February 27, 2025
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Film Reviews: New Releases for Feb. 28
Last Breath, My Dead Friend Zoe, Riff Raff, Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat
- Culture, Film Reviews February 26, 2025
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Re-picking the 2005 Academy Awards winners
Sideways, Vera Drake, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and other worthy replacements.
- The Academy Awards are once again upon us, and once again, cinephiles of all kinds will spend the evening of the ceremony and several days afterward complaining about the worthiness of the winners.
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A roundup of LGBTQ-themed art, literature, comedy and more at local venues
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