Sean Means

1 week ago | moviecricket.net | Sean Means

There’s a lot I will tolerate in order to watch Anna Kendrick having fun as she tears into a comedic role — and there’s a lot one must tolerate surrounding Kendrick in “Another Simple Favor,” a mishmash of martini-swigging comedy and bloody murder mystery that doesn’t quite get the recipe right.

1 week ago | moviecricket.net | Sean Means

There are a lot of questions posed in director Lorcan Finnegan’s sun-baked psychological thriller “The Surfer” asks — about pride and family and toxic masculinity — but even more questions that are answered simply by saying, “It’s a Nicolas Cage movie.”Cage plays the nameless protagonist, a businessman who aims to show his teen son (Finn Little) the Australian surfing bay where he first learned to ride a board.

1 week ago | moviecricket.net | Sean Means

The quietly brooding protagonist of the darkly romantic drama “Bonjour Tristesse” is — like author Françoise Sagan, who wrote the 1954 novel being adapted here — a 19-year-old woman. And writer-director Durga Chew-Bose shows, in sumptuous detail, why a woman that young isn’t the most reliable judge of emotional states, including her own.

2 weeks ago | moviecricket.net | Sean Means

With “Thunderbolts*,” the Marvel Cinematic Universe dives into some intriguing and ultimately fulfilling new territory — mixing the psychological and the surreal with the usual superhero stuff, making for the most unpredictable and character driven MCU entry in a long while. Of course, what it says on the box isn’t quite so promising. We’ve been told we’re getting a showdown of some of the MCU’s most hardened anti-heroes — selfish loners with tactical experience and a sarcastic streak.

2 weeks ago | sltrib.com | Sean Means

A fire at what appears to be a Mexican snack factory has sent smoke up into the Salt Lake City skies Tuesday morning. Salt Lake City Fire Department reported on its X account Tuesday that crews were responding to a two-alarm fire at 1518 S. Main. That's the address of the La Rana Mexican Snack Factory, in the former site of the Golden Dragon restaurant. Salt Lake City police posted that they have closed off traffic between Cleveland and Bryan avenues.