The Daily Utah Chronicle

  It feels audacious to say that “Arcane” season two has somehow outdone its already jaw-dropping predecessor, but it has, unapologetically, resplendently, almost impossibly so. If the first...

  The newest animated “Transformers” film is a breath of fresh air that finally gives fans the movie they have been waiting for. “Transformers One” stands as a strong introduction to the...

  As seasons change and the weather gets warmer, the air buzzes with the feeling of summer. This past week, Studio Ghibli Fest screened “The Secret World of Arrietty,” a film that captures...

  In the early 1980s, Hayao Miyazaki’s manga “Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind” was serialized in Tokuma Shoten’s Animage magazine. Miyazaki later adapted his manga into a film and laid...

  The essence of childhood boils down to wonder, awe and imagination. We all have memories of imagining new worlds, separate from the mundane. Many films attempt to reproduce this feeling, this...

  The X-Men haven’t been a part of the zeitgeist for quite a while. Despite some cameos in recent MCU films like Professor X in “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” and Beast in...

  Hayao Miyazaki’s latest film, “The Boy and the Heron” is filled with many traditional Studio-Ghiblisms, including a young kid discovering a fantastical world, 1940s Japan, cute creatures,...

  The film “Scott Pilgrim vs. the World” was a landmark film for most people our age. It combined video games, graphic novels and movies in a way that had never been attempted before. Years...

  To me, there are few things that are as apparent products of the 1980s such as the “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.” Originating as a comic in 1984, the series followed four skilled martial...

  “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” is my favorite Spider-Man movie. This was a fact I had a hard time swallowing when the film was initially released in the winter of 2018. I have been a...