What evolutionists fear

Letters to the Editor
Steve Kern
Regarding the Feb. 6 letter to the editor by Douglas Mock, Joseph Thai and Tom Boyd (“Same ol’, same ol’”): It’s the same ol’, same ol’ strategy by closed-minded, evolution-Kool-Aid-drinking scientists in our universities who keep out an ever-watchful eye to protect their weak theory from any scrutiny.

Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Wrong again

Letters to the Editor
David Grow
Rev. Steve Kern’s letter to the editor ("What evolutionists fear,” March 13, Oklahoma Gazette) projects, yet again, his willful ignorance of science. His characterizations of evolutionary science are flat wrong

Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Boxy, but good

Companies get creative at Science Museum Oklahoma’s ‘Out of the Box’ competition exhibition.

Visual Arts
Alyssa Grimley
Out of the Box
7-10 p.m. Saturday
through Sept. 30
Science Museum Oklahoma
2100 N.E. 52nd
sciencemuseumok.org
602-6664

Wednesday, March 27, 2013

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.

Monday, April 8, 2013

Monster mash

For its ninth annual Film Preservation Festival, the Oklahoma City Museum of Art unleashes seven of Universal Studios’ iconic creature features.

Features
Rod Lott and Phil Bacharach
Film Preservation Festival 9: Universal Monsters
Thursday-Sunday
Oklahoma City Museum of Art
415 Couch
okcmoa.com
236-3100
$6-$8

Wednesday, April 10, 2013

The Four

For martial-arts action, it mostly adds up.

Action
Rod Lott
One easy way to review The Four would be to call it a kung-fu X-Men. Hell, director Gordon Chan (The King of Fighters) already has a pair of sequels planned. The big difference, of course, is that this Chinese/Hong Kong film is a period piece set nearly a thousand years ago. Therefore, it’s not interested in adamantium blades, but counterfeit coins.

Thursday, April 11, 2013

John Dies at the End

Far-out fun.

Comedy
Rod Lott
Better than the hit novel on which it’s as faithfully based as budgetary issues allow, John Dies at the End is one of those movies that tries really hard to be a cult movie. In this case, however, the goal has been met; I suspect that, as with most of director Don Coscarelli’s work, from Phantasm and The Beastmaster to Bubba Ho-Tep, we’ll still be discussing this one decades later. That’s not to say it’s without faults.

Friday, April 12, 2013

Contraception and population

Letters to the Editor
Brandon Wertz
In response to “Embryonic” by Dr. Dominic M. Pedulla (Letters, Oklahoma Gazette, March 27), I have to admit that I am taken aback by a man of science being so disconnected from the idea that unchecked procreation will not have negative consequences in the long term.

Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Terminator Anthology

Get it before Skynet takes over.

Sci-Fi
Rod Lott
Quoth the cyborg, “I’ll be back.” And he was. And now again, this time in the form of Terminator Anthology, Warner Home Video’s Blu-ray box set of the four franchise films to date. It could be argued that the movies stopped being good when James Cameron stopped directing them. After revisiting the quartet, I don't agree — I strongly agree.

Sunday, April 21, 2013

Manborg

Part man. Part machine. All really funny.

Comedy
Rod Lott
Following its hilarious Father’s Day, the ’80s-obsessed Canadian quintet known as Astron-6 unleashes another inspired homage/parody in Manborg. Instead of vengeance, sci-fi is the skewered genre of choice. And Manborg is indeed choice.

Wednesday, May 1, 2013