If you can tear your kids away from playing Minecraft this summer, take them to free movies at the Dickinson Penn Square 10 in Penn Square Mall, 1901 Northwest Expressway.
There’s a new flick — again: free! — showing Tuesday through Thursday each week, now until August rolls around. Here’s the schedule: • June 19-21: The Pagemaster • June 26-28: Puss in Boots • July 3-5: Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked • July 10-12: Mr. Popper’s Penguins • July 17-19: Stuart Little 3: Call of the Wild • July 24-26: Happy Feet Two • July 31-Aug. 2: Babe
For more information, call 848-2202.
Meanwhile, over at Harkins Bricktown Cinemas 16, 150 E. Reno, the returning Summer Movie Fun program offers $2 individual tickets, or season passes for $5. There’s a new title each week, screening at 9:45 a.m. weekdays.
What’s on tap? Glad you asked: • through June 15: Horton Hears a Who! • June 18-22: Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked • June 25-29: Rio • July 2-6: Kung Fu Panda 2 • July 9-13: Mr. Popper’s Penguins • July 16-20: Puss in Boots • July 23-27: The Smurfs • July 30-Aug. 3: Arthur Christmas • Aug. 6-10: Hotel for Dogs
For more information, call 231-4747 or visit harkinstheatres.com/smf. —Rod Lott
In an intoxicating performance worthy of awards attention, Mary Elizabeth Winstead gets 'Smashed.'
Drama Rod Lott
In a short career largely dominated with genre films — from Final Destination 3 to this past summer’s Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter —
Mary Elizabeth Winstead always has exuded a certain something. But
nothing that ever suggested the level of performance she delivers in Smashed.
The Oscar-nominated drama is cold-blooded, yet remarkable.
Drama Phil Bacharach
Austrian filmmaker Michael Haneke isn't the obvious choice for a movie
about love at its weightiest and most profound. In previous works like Funny Games, The Piano Teacher, The White Ribbon and Caché, he has crafted cinematic nipple twists that tweak audiences while examining humankind at its cruelest.
Two new documentaries have little in common in subject, but share excellence in quality.
Documentary Phil Bacharach Happy People: A Year in the Taiga 7:30 p.m. Thursday, 5:30 and 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday Oklahoma City Museum of Art 415 Couch okcmoa.com 236-3100 $6-$8
The Gatekeepers daily, ongoing AMC Quail Springs Mall 24 2501 W. Memorial 755-2466 amctheatres.com
Thriller Phil Bacharach
Baby boomers can be their own worst enemy. The generation that was going
to change the world instead settled on thinking the world of
themselves. Youthful idealism, aging and compromised idealism, pining
for that youthful idealism — nothing fuels anti-boomer sentiment like
boomer sentimentality.
The long-struggling Crossroads Mall gets a second chance as a commercial hub for OKC’s growing Latino community.
News Peter Wright
A mariachi band played as dancers from a traveling circus last week
unveiled plans to reshape Crossroads Mall. With a new name and new
tenants, future renovations and a busy schedule of events, developers
hope to transform the once-thriving mall into a commercial hub for
Oklahoma City’s Latino community.
Drama Rod Lott
Its technology will be dated hopelessly within a few years, but for now,
Disconnect stands as an accurate parable on the dangers of the
Internet.