Tuesday 18 Jun
 
 

Ninja III: The Domination

Don't ask why Ninja III: The Domination begins with a ninja assault on a municipal golf course. Just be grateful it does. You also may wonder why its sex scene employs a can of V8: Don't question it. Just lie back and enjoy it.
06/14/2013 | Comments 0

Lifeforce

Tobe Hooper got a raw deal. The director of horror hits The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and Poltergeist didn't deserve to be sent to movie jail for 1985's Lifeforce. It's a well-crafted, well-intentioned work that was mismarketed and misunderstood, losing a bundle of money and soon sending Hooper into the lands of episodic television and direct-to-video features.
06/14/2013 | Comments 0

Dead Souls

With Dead Souls, we can prove something about the Chiller cable network's original features that Remains could not: Source material is not to blame for their pervasive generic nature — it's the economy, stupid.
06/11/2013 | Comments 0

The Philadelphia Experiment

There's a theory about remakes that perhaps Hollywood should stop remaking good movies and instead remake the bad ones, so that they may be improved. The problem with that theory is one runs the risk of the remake being bad, too. Case in point: The Philadelphia Experiment.
06/12/2013 | Comments 0

Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters

A few surprising things about Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters:
• It comes from MTV Films,
• is produced by Will Ferrell,
• and is as fun as its title is dumb.
06/11/2013 | Comments 0
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Top Articles from Movies

Insidious

Some of the most effective scares I’ve ever seen on the big screen


Horror

Rod Lott
Having moved homes last month, I know the inherent horrors of settling in to a new residence. A gas leak forced us to go without heat and hot water for 10 days; once that was fixed, our sprinkler system would not shut off for three.
 
Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Trust

A cautionary tale with too much melodrama


Drama

Rod Lott
When your tween daughter asks why she can’t have a Facebook account or a MySpace page, take her to see “Trust.”
 
Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules

Enjoyable, full of goodwill, but inferior to original


Children's

Rod Lott
Last spring’s “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” caught me by surprise. Not only was it not painful, but it was genuinely funny — arguably the best family film of the past decade.
 
Monday, March 28, 2011

The Lincoln Lawyer

Perhaps plotting a course for reinvention, Matthew McConaughey drives ‘The Lincoln Lawyer,’ a solid legal thriller.


Drama

Doug Bentin
Ever since the glory days of “Perry Mason,” I’ve been a sucker for stories about slick lawyers who live along the thin line of professional ethics, sometimes on one side, sometimes on the other.
 
Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Paul

As a space-alien comedy, ‘Paul’ is hardly out-of-this-world, but occasionally soars.


Comedy

Phil Bacharach
Who among us hasn’t searched the nighttime sky and dreamt of life on another planet?
 
Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Summer Wars

Had me a blast. Not even the anime-adverse are immune to the charms of ‘Summer Wars,’ a Japanese adventure with crossover appeal.


Science Fiction

Rod Lott

Summer Wars
7:30 p.m. Thursday, 5:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday
Oklahoma City Museum of Art, 415 Couch
OKCMOA.com, 236-3100
$8, $6 seniors

 
Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Dancing king

Since Nick Felix owns Dance Magic Studios, it became the ideal setting for his directorial debut, ‘Never Too Late,’ shot in the metro.


Features

Courtney Silva
If there’s anyone whose motto should be “if at first you don’t succeed, try, try again,” it would be Nick Felix. The dance instructor and owner of Dance Magic Studios, 7312 Cherokee Plaza, has experienced as many successes as he has failures, but never seems to be deterred.
 
Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Red Riding Hood

The freakazoid love child of Stephen King and Stephenie Meyer


Horror

Doug Bentin
You’ll have no one to blame but yourself if you become stupid because of “Red Riding Hood.”
 
Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Battle: Los Angeles

Plot? Who needs plot? Let's shoot aliens.


Science Fiction

Rod Lott
One needs more than two hands to count the numerous other films from which “Battle: Los Angeles” has been cobbled: “Independence Day,” “Cloverfield,” “Starship Troopers,” “Transformers,” “Aliens,” “Predator,” “Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem” and any movie in which bullet casings fall to the ground in slow motion, to name just a few.
 
Friday, March 11, 2011

Cedar Rapids

Ed Helms becomes a bona fide movie star in the funny, sweet ‘Cedar Rapids.’


Comedy

Phil Bacharach
Stories of apple-cheeked innocents corrupted by the big, bad world are as old as the dawn of curfew. So when a comedy comes along like “Cedar Rapids,” in which the apple-cheeked innocent is a nerdy man and the big, bad world takes the form of an insurance agents’ convention, it’s not likely to break new ground.
 
Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Con Artist

The documentary ‘Con Artist’ is a brush with greatness — or is that arrogance? — as it profiles art-world scourge Mark Kostabi.


Documentary

Rod Lott

Con Artist
8 p.m. Friday-Saturday
Oklahoma City Museum of Art, 415 Couch
OKCMOA.com, 236-3100
$8, $6 seniors

 
Wednesday, March 9, 2011

The pursuit of 'Happiness'

Covering six continents, the documentary “The Economics of Happiness” gets an Oklahoma premiere on Friday.


Features

Courtney Silva
In today’s society, fewer people can say they are truly happy — at least according to “The Economics of Happiness.”
 
Wednesday, March 9, 2011

The Adjustment Bureau

Underwhelming and lacking in energy


Thriller

Rod Lott
I get the feeling "The Adjustment Bureau" was created by an improv group soliciting a mishmash of ideas from its audience: It's a thriller! And a romance! Plus science fiction! And it has hats with magical powers!
 
Friday, March 4, 2011

Reece’s pieces

Because you can’t watch just one, local filmmaker Mickey Reece debuts a double feature with ‘The Seducers Club’ and ‘Stay Low.’


Features

Rod Lott

The Seducers Club and Stay Low
8 p.m. Saturday
City Arts Center 3000 General Pershing
cityartscenter.org, 951-0000
$5

 
Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Four Lions

An uproarious, actual terrorist comedy


Comedy

Rod Lott
Remember in the days after 9/11 when media reports and overly sensitive people asked/moaned, “Will we ever be able to laugh again?”
 
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
 
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