The Occasional Critic

By  DONALD PORTER Standard-Examiner staff  In the course of living, we inevitably encounter people who are so persistently obnoxious that we...

  ‘Cha plin’  offer s  little  new  By DONALD PORTER Standard - Exam i ner staff  The equivalent of a Reader's Digest Condensed Version ...

The pool at the Ritz. This is an editor's column written by the Standard's Managing Editor Ron Thornburg . He used to write one...

"The Critic" "Outtakes" movie column By DONALD PORTER Standard-Examiner "You must enjoy the trash of so ma...

I junketed to San Francisco during the summer of 1987 to interview Kim Basinger , Jeff Bridges and Robert Benton for the action-comedy ...

In March 1989, word came that an independent film would be filming at various Ogden locations over a few weeks. I’m not sure how it works n...

For 11 years -- 1985-96 -- I was the film and TV writer/critic for the Standard-Examiner newspaper in Ogden, Utah. I wrote a LOT of movie r...