Scott Renshaw
Film Critic and Arts and Entertainment Editor at Salt Lake City Weekly
@CityWeekly film critic. Fuck Elon. https://t.co/wOjextCaj8
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3 days ago |
cityweekly.net | Scott Renshaw |Arica Roberts |Emilee Atkinson |Cat Palmer
Pride Issue 2025 IntroductionUtah gay history chronicler Ben Williams notes that the struggle for rights has always included triumphs and setbacks. Ben WilliamsOur 2025 Pride Issue guest editor, historian Ben Williams, has documented the history of LGBTQ+ people in Utah for decades. LGBTQ people have always lived through turbulent times. In the 1950s, homosexuals were seen as subversives and national security risks. If discovered, people could be arrested and lives ruined.
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3 days ago |
cityweekly.net | Scott Renshaw
Anatole "Zsa-Zsa" Korda (Benicio Del Toro)—the main character of Wes Anderson's The Phoenician Scheme—is not Elon Musk. Not specifically, anyway. It's certainly easy to note some points of similarity, given that Korda is a wealthy businessman with a number of children even he can't seem to keep track of, and whom he generally ignores.
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1 week ago |
cityweekly.net | Scott Renshaw
Posted By Scott Renshaw on May 29, 2025, 4:20 PM click to enlarge Bad Shabbos *** The comedic line between “farce” and “cringe” is a thin one, but co-writer/director Daniel Robbins walks it fairly deftly in this tale of family connection with a dark twist: During the Shabbos dinner in New York when David Gelfand (Jon Bass) will be introducing this parents (David Paymer and Kyra Sedgwick) to the parents of his non-Jewish fiancé, Meg (Meghan Leathers), the already-fraught scenario gets...
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1 week ago |
cityweekly.net | Scott Renshaw
Jane Austen Wrecked My LifeThe catchy title proves to be kind of a fake-out, since writer/director Laura Piani's romantic comedy isn't really about being impeded by the conventions of swoony turn-of-the-19th-century British fiction—and settling on what it is about becomes part of what makes it a bit frustrating. We meet Agathe Robinson (Camille Rutherford) working in a Paris bookstore, struggling both with her dream of being a novelist and her recent lack of a dating history.
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2 weeks ago |
cityweekly.net | Scott Renshaw
Posted By Scott Renshaw on May 22, 2025, 10:00 AM click to enlarge Fountain of Youth **1/2 The desire to create a globe-hopping adventure franchise in the spirit of Indiana Jones or National Treasure is one I totally understand—but when your roguish soldier-of-fortune hero is played by John Krasinski, Imma stop you right there. Krasinski plays Luke Purdue, scion of a famed archaeologist attempting to continue his dad’s legacy by searching for the legendary fountain of youth, and dragging his...
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Well, I’ve preserved this account thus far out of a desire to maintain access to my old “content.” Decided to end that particular narcissism. You can find me at the place of the azure sky. Deleting this account tomorrow. Cheers.
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