Performing Arts
Larry Laneer
Lives of the Saints
8 p.m. Friday-Saturday Through May 28
Ghostlight Theatre Club
3110 N. Walker
$15, $10 students
286-9412
Friday 24 May
OKG Newsletter
Topic: scene
By the ‘Saints’
Ghostlight’s ‘Lives of the Saints’ is silly, but mostly successful.
Performing Arts
Larry Laneer
Bar association
Bar bands connect with crowds by mixing it up
Music
Charles Martin
Brian Dunning and his lovingly crafted pompadour swaggered into a biker bar full of strangers one sleepy night in southwest Oklahoma City.
Hey, Mon!
Emerging amid a thriving local hip-hop scene is Damon Johnson, aka Mon. When an injury forced him from football, he turned to rap.
Music
Joshua Boydston
Pairadime Music Summer Showcase
9 p.m. Friday
Kamp’s Deli & XIII X Lounge
1310 N.W. 25th
kampsok.com
819-6004
$10
Casa de Mi Padre
¡Grande! Assuming you can read.
Comedy
Rod Lott
Even if you hate it — and plenty will — you have to admit Casa de Mi Padre is a unique slice of cinema. Will Ferrell stars in this spirited parody of the Mexican telenovela. Not only is the comedy set in Mexico, but performed almost entirely in Spanish. Name one other A-lister who would dare commit to such an audience-limiting undertaking, foreign language and all. For a star of his stature to spoof something his fan base likely knows nothing about is so ballsy, it bounces.
Ruby Sparks
In this appealing indie rom-com, a novelist’s girl of his dreams springs from the page to a real person.
Comedy
Rod Lott
In Ruby Sparks, wunderkind author Calvin Weir-Fields (Paul Dano, There Will Be Blood) has a few problems — one being that he is dateless, another that his male dog pees like a girl. More pressing is that he lacks the inspiration to follow up the Great American Novel that landed the high-school dropout on The New York Times best-seller list when he was all of 19.
Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory
The truth hurts.
Documentary
Rod Lott
I can't believe — just. cannot. believe. — that Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory lost the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature this past spring. And to a football movie, no less! It's another case of the jocks running ragged over the outcasts, except these outcasts were able to effect something few docs achieve: change.
Headhunters
Oslo can you go? To the depths of man’s darkest and deadliest desires, per this fun foreign crime thriller.
Thriller
Rod Lott
Compared to the continent of Europe, the rate of death by guns in America is six times higher. You wouldn’t know it based on the current wave of crime films from that half of the globe. Arguably kicked off by the worldwide success of Sweden’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo trilogy, the movies generally are ballsier and bloodier and, therefore, better.
