Comedy
Rod Lott
In any other year but an election year, I’d like to think The Campaign would have been a bigger hit. It's certainly funny; it's also certainly too close to the truth: American politics is a game of money.
Wednesday 22 May
OKG Newsletter
Topic: comedy
The Campaign
Enough laughs to make your chad hang.
Comedy
Rod Lott
In any other year but an election year, I’d like to think The Campaign would have been a bigger hit. It's certainly funny; it's also certainly too close to the truth: American politics is a game of money.
'Free' at last
After a decade of toiling, Jerrod Niemann finally broke into country stardom. He can laugh about it now ... and does.
Music
Joshua Boydston
Jerrod Niemann with Tyler Farr and Sean Patrick McGraw
7 p.m. Friday
Diamond Ballroom
8001 S. Eastern
diamondballroom.net
677-9169
$17-$19
The Phynx
Phar-out, phunny, phreaky stuff.
Comedy
Rod Lott
If movies could be drug-tested, The Phynx would be in big trouble. The 1970 comedy is not just an obscurity, but an oddity, like a hallucinogenic brew mixed by Peter Max and Hanna-Barbera. Newly rescued from Nowheresville by Warner Archive, the film is a spy spoof on the goofball level of Get Smart — in spirit, that is, not creatively.
Nitro Circus: The Movie
Wow! Ouch!
Documentary
Rod Lott
Granted only a limited theatrical release this summer, Nitro Circus: The Movie is like Jackass with more athleticism, more engineering know-how, more maturity, more corporate sponsors, and much less testicular trauma.
Magic Mike
Abracadoldrums!
Drama
Rod Lott
Please believe me when I say that my dislike for Magic Mike has nothing to do with being heterosexual. It has everything to do with mediocre acting and a mess of a script. And I say this as one of the civilized nation’s biggest Steven Soderbergh’s apologists who will defend the goodness of Haywire and Contagion to the point of fisticuffs if we must.
No laughing matter
Bringing comedy to OKC is serious business.
Thunderstruck
OKC Thunder star Kevin Durant’s movie debut hurts as much as an NBA Playoffs loss to the Miami Heat.
Family
Harrison Lott
Editor’s note: For Thunderstruck, the new-to-home-video family comedy starring the Thunder’s Kevin Durant, it struck us that, since the movie is really aimed at pre-teen and teenaged KD fans, who better to review it than an avowed Thunder fan of that age? Here with his review is guest critic Harrison Lott, a 15-year-old student at Edmond Memorial High School.
Comes a Bright Day
All is not calm, all is not ‘Bright.’
Thriller
Rod Lott
London, jazz, neon-lit nights, a posh hotel, a heist, Imogen Poots: Comes a Bright Day has so many elements I love to see in the movies, yet they add up to such a minuscule amount of pleasure. It's like pouring your favorite bubbly beverage all the way to the top of a frosty glass, only to see that once the head has subsided, you're left with so little.
Big Tits Zombie
Shot in Japan, but you probably knew that.
Comedy
Rod Lott
Reveals Big Tits Zombie lead actress Sora Aoi in the disc's behind-the-scenes footage, "We have action, nudity, striptease, zombies, and splatter." Oh, you guessed that already? Either way, her eight words could double as a review.
Funny business
Hard-working comedian Brian Regan brings his comedy to Rose State.
Performing Arts
Louis Fowler
Brian Regan
7:30 p.m. Thursday
Rose State College Performing Arts Theatre
6420 S.E. 15th, Midwest City
ticketmaster.com
733-7960
$39.50
