Confusion is Canon: My Experience at Salt Lake’s FanX 2024

Confusion is Canon: My Experience at Salt Lake’s FanX 2024
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The Salt Lake FanX Comic & Pop Culture Convention has ripped a crack in the wall through time and space once again. … read more

Another Man’s Treasure at the Redwood Drive-in Theatre Swap Meet

Another Man’s Treasure at the Redwood Drive-in Theatre Swap Meet
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Since 1960, Redwood has been hosting this acre-wide flea market, featuring over 500 different vendors to boot. … read more

Belle: The Futuristic Retelling That Saved The Theater Experience

Belle: The Futuristic Retelling That Saved The Theater Experience
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Extending an arm of warmth and love to pull us out of those dark times. While the last couple of years told us to survive, Belle was telling us to live again. … read more

Review: Jazmin Bean – Traumatic Livelihood

Review: Jazmin Bean – Traumatic Livelihood
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Traumatic Livelihood represents the blackened eye that time may heal physically, but the emotional wear-and-tear will always remain. … read more

Local Review: ARCHAIC FUTURISTS – AN EXERCISE IN HUMAN ERROR

Local Review: ARCHAIC FUTURISTS – AN EXERCISE IN HUMAN ERROR
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With resources they are provided—and only seeing the tip of its full potential—AN EXERCISE IN HUMAN ERROR feels like it’s been reduced to a 4-bit Game & Watch. … read more

Slamdance Film Review: Experimental Shorts Block

Slamdance Film Review: Experimental Shorts Block
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No matter how abstract or avant-garde the methods of madness are, no one does experimental filmmaking better than the 2024 Slamdance Film Festival. Witness, if you will, six deviant directors and writers dispatching a visual display of 100% free-wandering consciousness. … read more

Slamdance Film Review: Invisible Nation

Slamdance Film Review: Invisible Nation
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Invisible Nation’s 85-minute runtime does not linger on cliche storytelling, where it could easily drive the tone into make-believe propaganda.  … read more

Contributor Limelight: Alton Barnhart

Contributor Limelight: Alton Barnhart
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Alton Barnhart joined our team of Editorial Interns last November, and his incomparable wit has been a fixture of our office life since. In his writing, Alton balances this jubilant personality with a nuanced understanding of journalistic technical processes—he’s one of the brightest new voices we have on the team. Check out his feature on