Horror
Rod Lott
From the looks of a most unfortunate, unplanned double feature I recently experienced with Night Wolf and Hidden, the genre of horror has been reduced to 90 minutes of young people crawling around in abandoned structures.

Thriller
Rod Lott
I'm glad that Halle Berry and Olivier Martinez found love on the set, because that makes Dark Tide not a total loss. Otherwise, this big-budget, theater-skipping adventure is perhaps the most toothless shark movie ever made, and remember, I've sat through Dinoshark and Sharktopus.

Comedy
Rod Lott
Wonder what put lead in your great-grandfather's pencil? Watch any of the six filmed burlesque shows collected on Something Weird Video's double-disc Strip Strip Hooray! set. From 1949 to 1953, from 61 to 83 minutes, these stationary-camera pictures simply present what played out onstage.

Visual Arts
Mia Cantu
The B.I.G. Event
4-6 p.m. Thursday
The Gold Dome
1112 N.W. 23rd
thebigeventokc.com
free

Features
Phil Bacharach and Rod Lott

deadCENTER Film Festival
Wednesday-Sunday
downtown Oklahoma City
deadcenterfilm.org
246-9233

Comedy
Rod Lott

A title like The Disco Exorcist just screams, “Why wasn’t this part of Grindhouse?"

Action
Rod Lott
Let's just state the obvious right, er, up front: Chesty Morgan has extremely large breasts. Unlike her name, they are God-given.

Drama
Rod Lott
Strangely, the biggest shock surrounding Best Laid Plans isn't that someone thought to redo John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men in the world of underground mixed martial arts, but that it works as well as it does — or hell, that it works at all.

Thriller
Rod Lott
Among independents, a recent movement has proven you can do an awful lot with very little — especially when limited to one set, as ATM and Brake nearly do.

Sci-Fi
Rod Lott
"Let's do it," says Arnold in the opening minutes of Total Recall. "Let's go to Mars."