About

Welcome to Andy at The Movies.com. We’re happy to have you as a visitor and hope you find the content of this site both informative and entertaining. We think we’re pretty smart and fairly funny, and we hope you do, too. This site was originally intended to be an outlet for Andy Morgan to post his movie reviews from Logan, Utah’s daily newspaper, The Herald Journal. But after a run of nearly eight years, Andy and the HJ parted ways and Andy focused his efforts on expanding the 61 KVNU For the People Movie Show.

Enter Dan Vinton.

Dan and Andy have been friends for many years and have spent countless hours talking about everything from the hair-pulling insanity of the Star Wars prequels, to their Showcase of Shame gems – Blackhawk Down, Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgandy and Kingdom of Heaven, amongst many, many others and hundreds of other cinema subjects. At any rate, knowing Dan’s movie prowess, Andy asked Dan to join him on the radio and to write on Andy at The Movies.com. And the rest is history.

So, while the website might read Andy at The Movies, it really is Dan and Andy at the Movies. Just two dudes hoping to share their collective love and hate of the all things celluloid with the vast numbers of savvy and finicky web travelers.

Here’s a little more information about Andy Morgan and Dan Vinton:

Andy Morgan

Andy Morgan is a resident of Hyrum, Utah and has lived in Cache Valley ever since his parents moved from Florida in 1976. He is married with two children and has been in love with movies his whole life. His first film critic gig came at the ripe age of 10, when he was the movie critic for his elementary school newspaper.

Andy returned to writing reviews in 1999 for Utah State University’s school newspaper, The Utah Statesman. He started writing reviews for The Herald Journal in 2000 and recently devoted his efforts to the KVNU For the People Movie Show, as well as Andy at the Movies.com and CVDaily.com. Andy also wrote a humor column for the Utah Statesman and his writing has won awards from the Society of Professional Journalists and the Utah Press Association. Andy is also a member of the Utah Film Critic’s Association.

You can contact Andy via email and andrewamorgan AT gmail.com.

Dan Vinton

Dan Vinton, a Western States transient and Cache Valley transplant of 8 years, has been putting pen to paper as a love note to movies since the advent of moon boots and awesomeness. While married with two children now, Dan’s earliest aspiration was to steal Roger Ebert’s job. Instead, he settled for cutting movie ads from the local newspapers.  Years later, he cut his teeth in film making with the legendary “Ninja Force” before writing movie reviews for his high school newspaper.

Dan attended a well-known but locally despised college with an emphasis on pre-film studies and directing, but was hijacked by an advertising degree and a minor in English. However, his love of film remained. In the years since, Dan held a post as writer for the widely read film site CHUD.com and has won several writing awards, been published in trade magazines, journals and, like 96.38% of most computer owners, contributes eclectically to several blogs. If it counts for anything, he’s even been published in TIME magazine.

Dan is s a contributor to Andy At The Movies and can be contacted for rebuke, mockery or fawning at dan.vinton AT gmail.com.