Music
Chris Parker
Born in the tiny Oklahoma town of Soper, singer/songwriter Ray Wylie Hubbard moved to Texas as a kid and became one of its deans of songwriters, if by a rather circuitous route.
Sunday 26 May
OKG Newsletter
Topic: ray
Ray’s way
Free of drugs and drink, Ray Wylie Hubbard now keeps his creative fires stoked by giving back to the music community
Music
Chris Parker
Born in the tiny Oklahoma town of Soper, singer/songwriter Ray Wylie Hubbard moved to Texas as a kid and became one of its deans of songwriters, if by a rather circuitous route.
Graham crackin’
By extending beyond his comfort zone, local singer-songwriter Graham Colton may have birthed his most comforting tunes yet.
Music
Joshua Boydston
Graham Colton
7 p.m. Wednesday, 7 p.m. Friday
The Blue Door
2805 N. McKinley
bluedoorokc.com
524-0738
$25-$30
The Sweeney
Get nicked.
Action
Rod Lott
Not only is The Sweeney one of the best TV-to-film adaptations in history, but quite possibly the best adaptation of a TV series you’ve never heard of ... unless you’re British.
Mystery Science Theater 3000: Volume XXVI
The short review: Buy it already.
Television series
Rod Lott
I think the best way to review a box set of Mystery Science Theater 3000 would be to list all the references made by and/or targets of the Satellite of Love crew in those episodes, to demonstrate their true depth and breadth.
But that’d also be the worst, because we’d be here all day.
The Place Beyond the Pines
The route of ‘The Place Beyond the Pines’ is great to good.
Thriller
Phil Bacharach
The Place Beyond the Pines is two-thirds of a great movie. Director Derek Cianfrance’s follow-up to 2010’s Oscar-nominated Blue Valentine is a tense, powerful crime thriller with some weighty stuff on its mind. It speaks to the filmmaker’s know-how that not even a crazily contrived third act can damper its haunting power.
FBI Code 98
It's about a bomb, but isn't one.
Thriller
Rod Lott
Despite how Warner Archive has branded it, 1963’s FBI Code 98 is not — repeat: not — film noir. All film noir is crime, but not all crime is film noir. That vaulted subgenre requires darkness, whereas this feature is so light and breezy, it’s practically a recruiting tool for the federal agency. It even has its own marching music.
Dexter: The Seventh Season
A cut below the previous.
Television series
Rod Lott
There's no way to discuss the seventh and penultimate season of Showtime's hit Dexter without acknowledging how the previous year ended. Therefore, if you haven't finished the sixth season, stop reading now. You've got work to do.
