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Things to do in the Ogden Area Today

Sunday, January 25, 2015 - 9:58am

Rocky Mountain Moto Cross Winter Series Indoor Moto Cross

Come and Enjoy this fast paced indoor motocross action.

Practice begins @ 8AM each day.

Racing from 10AM. The racing is a variety of classes from mini-bikes through large bike, with riders of all ages.

Jan. 25

8am

Golden Spike Event Center
Riding Arena
1000 N. 1200 W.
Ogden, UT 84404

Sundance Film Festival presents "Racing Extinction"

Louie Psihoyos's The Cove (2009 Sundance Film Festival, U.S. Documentary Audience Award) exposed viewers to the brutal practice of dolphin slaughter. The Academy Award-winning director now bears witness to a global problem—mankind's role in precipitating mass extinction, potentially resulting in the loss of half of the world's species.

Believing that images can stimulate empathy and in turn change behavior, Psihoyos joins forces with activists, scientists, nature photographers, and cutting-edge inventors to draw attention to the dangers we face. While covert operations reveal the horrific black-market trade in endangered aquatic species, the film's broader lens uncovers the even more disastrous consequences of human activity, chiefly the release of ocean-killing methane and carbon from energy consumption.

With stakes as high as the survival of life on the planet, Racing Extinction dispenses with apathy or fatalism to emerge as an urgent, affirming call to action to stem the tide before it's too late.

Run Time 90 mins

Jan. 25

3:30pm

Peery's Egyptian Theater
2415 Washington Blvd
Ogden, UT 84401

Sundance Film Festival presents "The End of the Tour"

In 1996, shortly after the publication of his groundbreaking novel Infinite Jest, acclaimed author David Foster Wallace (Jason Segel) sets off on a five-day interview with Rolling Stone reporter David Lipsky (Jesse Eisenberg). As the days pass, a tenuous yet significant relationship develops between journalist and subject. Lipsky and Wallace bob and weave around each other, revealing as much in what they don’t say as what the say. They share laughs, expose hidden frailties, yet it’s never clear when or to what extent they are being truthful. The interview is never published. Five days of audio tapes are packed away in Lipsky’s closet, and the two men never meet again.

The End of the Tour is based on Lipsky’s critically acclaimed memoir about this unforgettable encounter that he wrote following Wallace’s suicide in 2008.

Deeply emotional, insightful performances from Jason Segel and Jesse Eisenberg lay bare a heartbreaking screenplay by Pulitzer-Prize winner Donald Margulies. Directed with humor and tenderness by Sundance Film Festival veteran James Ponsoldt (The Spectacular Now, Smashed) and befitting the troubled soul of Wallace himself, The End of the Tour is profound, surprising, and compellingly human.

Actors - Jesse Eisenberg; Jason Segel; Anna Chlumsky; Joan Cusack; Mamie Gummer; Mickey Sumner

Run Time 105 mins

 

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