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Hey everyone! Paramount Pictures’ new movie Crawl, is coming to theaters on July 12, and we are giving our followers the chance to win free tickets to see the film before it hits theaters! Send your full name and birth date to AlliedSaltLake@gmail.com and enter subject line “SLC CRAWL” for your ( Read more... )

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The Walking Dead ended. Well, the touchstone Image Comics title, The Walking Dead came to its conclusion with issue #193. I assume it’s going to crawl out from under the dumpster for a few more "surprise" issues only to end for real at #200. Jokes aside...

Damn. Good for Kirkman.

"The Walking Dead has ( Read more... )

http://bigshinyrobot.com/60604/salt-lake-gaming-con-wrap-part-3/

Salt Lake Gaming Con is a place for developers to connect and share learnings. It's not like PAX in that it isn't overwhelming to ALL of your senses, and it's also less consumer-facing than E3. While that means there are fewer big reveals, it's plenty interesting for other reasons. It ( Read more... )

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Conventions such as Salt Lake Gaming Con is an event for those in the industry to learn, network, and exchange ideas with their colleagues and showcase new games. While many of the major cons in North American are tailored for AAA blockbusters, SLGC fits a niche for indies. ( Read more... )

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Salt Lake City Gaming Con turned the Salt Palace Convention Center into arcades, virtual-reality playgrounds, live-action roleplaying dungeons and competitive fighting game tournament arenas. In other rooms, panels feature personalities podcasting live, streamers discussing ( Read more... )

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MIDSOMMAR (10 out of 10) Directed and Written by Ari Aster; Starring Florence Pugh, Jack Reynor, William Jackson Harper, and Will Poulter; Rated R for disturbing ritualistic violence and grisly images, strong sexual content, graphic nudity, drug use and language; Running time 140 minutes; In wide ( Read more... )

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Twists are a tricky business.

Under the best of circumstances, a twist is essentially a violent recontextualization of information the audience already has. To use one of the greatest cinematic twists of all time as an easy example, The Empire Strikes Back’s iconic reveal ( Read more... )

http://bigshinyrobot.com/60599/should-you-see-endgame-re-release/

Avengers: Endgame is this close to knocking Avatar off its high-grossing throne, and Marvel has decided to uncoincidentally *wink* make one last valiant push by re-releasing Endgame with additional footage in order to drum up attention for the DVD release and the new Spider-Man ( Read more... )

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Saving the day takes a pair. Go see Stuber in theaters July 12 OR click the link for your chance to download a printable pass for you and a guest to attend the advance screening on July 10! http://www.gofobo.com/SLCStuber710

Stuber is in theaters July 12, and you can check out the trailer ( Read more... )