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The next movie in the Monday Night Movies series will be Thor: Ragnarok at Orchard Park on June 21. Photo credit: Ogden City Arts, Culture and Events

Summer movie night fun

Caitlyn Nichols June 14, 2021

Ogden City Arts, Culture and Events is bringing back the Monday Night Movies series to the community for the summer of 2021. For the Monday Night Movies series, two movies will be shown in different Ogden...

The Operation Toussaint documentary film follows Tim Ballard in an undercover mission in Haiti to rescue sex trafficking victims. (Courtesy of Operation Underground Railroad)

Operation Underground Railroad working to take down human trafficking

Ally Nelson November 18, 2020

The human trafficking industry makes roughly $32 billion each year, according to Utah Attorney General Sean D. Reyes. The Polaris Project, the organization that handles the U.S. National Human Trafficking...

Elizabeth Debicki and John David Washington in Tenet. (Courtesy Warner Bros. Pictures)

A review that doesn’t make sense unless you’ve seen the movie twice

Nic Muranaka October 28, 2020

Daryn Steed also contributed to this review.So, this is the way the movie theater industry ends: not with a bang but with a whimper.After six months of forced closure due to the coronavirus pandemic, 68...

Lunafest film festival celebrates women’s rights

Ally Nelson October 26, 2020

Weber State University’s Women’s Center presented their fifth annual Lunafest film festival Oct. 21. Lunafest features films by, for and about women.Of the 175 cities in the country who participate,...

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Ruth Carter: Ganadora del premio Oscar visita a WSU

Andres Rodriguez February 12, 2020

Escrito por Sharon Valverde Vargas y Tammy McCray. Traducido por Andres Rodriguez.En 2018, Marvel Studios lanzó la película "Black Panther." Muchos espectadores y críticos del cine elogiaron...

Many films with diverse casts have had low box office ratings in Utah despite widespread success. Despite that, stories like these have inspiring messages to be sent to audiences that need to be heard. (Alli Rickards / The Signpost)

Beyond the screen: why movie theaters in Utah lack color

Ally Nelson February 12, 2020

Box offices are determined by individual ticket sales. Utah's lack of ticket sales for films with diverse leads is very telling of our culture.My family made sure I grew up culturally aware, especially...

Graphic Aubree Eckhardt.

Finding Disney’s magic in a new age of cinema

Landin Griffith September 13, 2019

On Aug. 14, Disney-Pixar’s “Toy Story 4” became the fifth Disney film in the last year to reach $1 billion at the box office, continuing the studio’s tradition of resurrecting its...

Photo credit: Monika Clarke

Back in black: Warner Bros. reboots ‘Matrix’ franchise

Nic Muranaka September 6, 2019

Even if you're not familiar with the film, you're probably familiar with its most iconic scene: Neo dodging bullets in exaggerated slow motion. Twenty years later, the scene may have moved from awe-inspiring...

Where do you belong?

Ally Nelson September 4, 2019

Te Anu Tonga, Utah native, film director, and producer of the documentary, “Kapa Haka - Going Home,” shared her experiences as she discovered her Pacific Islander roots, urging Weber State...

Jonas Brothers

Chasing, finding and creating happiness

Danya Gil June 10, 2019

The youngest Wildcats were finishing the third grade when the Jonas Brothers released their last studio album. Nearly a decade later, the band has reunited and released a new album, a documentary and announced...

Aunjanue Ellis and Ethan Herisse in the Netflix series "When They See Us." (Atsushi Nishijima/Netflix/TNS)

Yesterday’s biases, today’s convictions

Danya Gil June 4, 2019

Raymond Santana, Kevin Richardson, Antron McCray, Yusef Salaam and Korey Wise — dubbed the Central Park Five — falsely confessed to the rape and assault of a jogger after being coerced, intimidated...

Studio 76 Presents Wildcat Film Festival

Studio 76 Presents Wildcat Film Festival

Landin Griffith April 10, 2019

Weber State University’s video production studio, Studio 76, will present their first official Wildcat Film Festival, a sustainability-themed entourage of student films that will be screened in the...

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