On Saturday, Feb. 6, 1993, the Garrens Comedy Troupe had their first sellout show — all 319 seats in room 2084 (no longer there) of the Jesse Knight Humanities Building (now the Jesse Knight Building) at Brigham Young University (still called that, for now). We had just started performing two weeks earlier. We achieved the […]| EricDSnider.com
Happy New Year! When I started keeping track of everything I watched (2004), I was a freelance writer whose livelihood largely depended on seeing movies, particularly new stuff in theaters. That continued to describe my situation until November 2019, when I took a full-time regular grown-up job writing content for a large religious organization that […]| EricDSnider.com
Hello to the people who are reading this! I hope you are doing well, all things considered. I’m still at my non-movie-related day job, which I like well enough and which I’m especially grateful to have in Times Like These. I came out of retirement to cover the Sundance Film Festival last January (and will […]| EricDSnider.com
First things first: Here is the latest version of “The General Authorities Song.” And now, the story. Late in the fall of 1995, I was back at BYU after my missionary service (I’d been in Philadelphia) and was trying to think of funny religious-themed things I could write for the Garrens Comedy Troupe. Mormon, Utah, […]| EricDSnider.com
MOVIES For a long time I’ve aimed to watch approximately one movie a day, averaging around 350 a year. In a typical year as a movie critic, about 200 of those were new releases, films that came out that year. The rest would be about an even mix of first-time watches and movies I’d seen […]| EricDSnider.com
Don’t want to read this whole post? OK, it’s kind of rude to just come out and say that, but here’s a summary: – I live in Provo now. – I’m not reviewing movies anymore. – I also stopped doing that movie podcast that you never listened to anyway. – I have a full-time day […]| EricDSnider.com
I did not make a top 10 list this year. Usually I’ve seen more than 200 of the year’s new releases; this year I only saw 69. And while it may seem like fewer movies came out this year than usual, that’s really only true of the big-budget blockbusters, most of which got pushed to […]| EricDSnider.com
“Minari” is a happy smile of a movie about a Korean-American family (mom, dad, young boy and girl) moving to Arkansas in the 1980s to try farming. There’s potential for a lot of major drama — the boy has a heart murmur; grandma comes to live with them; how do Arkansans feel about foreigners? — […]| EricDSnider.com
We know that Alan Ball, writer of “American Beauty” and creator of “Six Feet Under,” is interested in repressed homosexuality and death. Both are front and center in Ball’s “Uncle Frank,” set in North Carolina in the 1970s with Paul Bettany as the title character, an NYU college professor who is not out to his […]| EricDSnider.com
“Possessor” is set in a world where it is possible to transfer your consciousness into someone else’s body and take over that person — “possess” them, if you will. This is achieved via medical implants in the head, and the person being possessed usually has not consented to it. That this comes from writer-director Brandon […]| EricDSnider.com
