Food and Drink Features
Greg Horton
Sometimes oversimplifications are good, and in the case of Pinot Noir, reducing the varietal to two distinct styles is helpful: fruit baskets and brawny, big boys.
Friday 24 May
OKG Newsletter
Topic: Noir
Beauty and brawn
Pinot Noir comes in two distinct styles, and the brawny one may be for those who don’t think they like Pinot.
Food and Drink Features
Greg Horton
Sometimes oversimplifications are good, and in the case of Pinot Noir, reducing the varietal to two distinct styles is helpful: fruit baskets and brawny, big boys.
Red Rhone rising
As Grenache planting in the U.S. improves, wine lovers in the metro reap the benefits of French tradition.
Food and Drink Features
Greg Horton
Grenache long has been the dominant grape of Châteauneuf-du-Pape, the region in southern France known for producing some of the world’s most complex and subtle wines.
The Red House
Come and knock on our door. We've been waiting for you.
Thriller
Rod Lott
When Meg (Allene Roberts, Union Station), the adopted daughter of wooden-legged farmer Morgan (the legendary Edward G. Robinson), convinces him to hire her platonic pal, Nath (Lon McAllister, The Story of Seabiscuit), at the staggering rate of 50 cents an hour, things look like a win-win for all parties.
Flareup
Raquel-a-go-go!
Thriller
Rod Lott
Raquel Welch never quite landed on the A list, but not for a lack of trying. It's just that so many of her projects (Bedazzled, One Million Years B.C., Fathom, Myra Breckinridge, et al.) required little more of her than her assets. At least she shakes those with the best of them as a go-go girl on the go — and on the run — in 1969's Flareup, fresh from the MOD ovens of Warner Archive.
Dark Crimes
How to kill 3,640 minutes of time wisely.
Thriller
Rod Lott
Mill Creek Entertainment’s budget pack of noir, Dark Crimes, strongly goes against the notion that films in the public domain are there because they aren't any good. That’s nonsense.
D.O.A.
Twenty-four hours to live, in 96 minutes or less.
Thriller
Rod Lott
A guy walks into a police station to report a murder: himself! With that setup, one could make a tight, terrific crime film — and D.O.A. is that movie ... in 1950. The 1988 remake doesn't fare as well, but at least it's been preserved on Blu-ray by Mill Creek Entertainment.
The Girl from the Naked Eye
I spy something pulpy.
Thriller
Rod Lott
Presented as a story in the nonexistent Dark Mystery pulp mag, The Girl from the Naked Eye respectively refers to a call girl and the club where she worked.
Headhunters
Oslo can you go? To the depths of man’s darkest and deadliest desires, according to a fun foreign crime thriller.
Elena
Money matters within the hierarchy of a blended family go under scrutiny in an icy Russian drama.
Drama
Phil Bacharach
Elena
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
$5-$8
