Collectively, the Japanese imagination is pretty effing wild. Moving from the “Godzilla” movies to Hayao Miyazaki’s crazy mind-scapes to the landmark “Ghost in the Shell” and cultural mashups like “Cowboy Bebop,” Japanese movies and TV shows exist in their own warped-mirror, pop-culture alternate universe. “Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone” is a reboot of a […]
Mike Robertson
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Humpday
“Humpday” is very interested in exploring this question. The film screens 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art. Ben (Mark Duplass, “The Puffy Chair”) is a 30-something living the marital dream within a dream with Anna (newcomer Alycia Delmore). They own a house, have good jobs and are actively trying […]
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Humpday
“Humpday” is very interested in exploring this question. The film screens 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art. Ben (Mark Duplass, “The Puffy Chair”) is a 30-something living the marital dream within a dream with Anna (newcomer Alycia Delmore). They own a house, have good jobs and are actively trying […]
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The myth of the lone, misunderstood, genius artist toiling away in obscurity is a narrative that has come to overshadow ” or at least dominate ” the value we put on artists. That is, one has a tendency to view an artist’s work based on the tragedy of his or her life story, and the […]
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The myth of the lone, misunderstood, genius artist toiling away in obscurity is a narrative that has come to overshadow ” or at least dominate ” the value we put on artists. That is, one has a tendency to view an artist’s work based on the tragedy of his or her life story, and the […]
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Ponyo
Fairy tales have been around for a long, long time, serving as one of the world’s repositories of cultural mores, morals, ethics and fears. Taken at face value, the old stories describe a much scarier world, in which one was likely to be abandoned, raped, eaten or worse. Little Red Riding Hood was originally consumed […]
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The Cake Eaters’ bakes a sentimental story worth every slice
“The Cake Eaters” is the story of two families whose present is bracketed and, in some ways confined, by a shared past. Beagle (Aaron Stanford, “X-Men: The Last Stand”) lives a solitary life with his recently widowed father, Easy (Bruce Dern, “The Astronaut Farmer”). Beagle tries to take care of Easy, but the pair lives […]
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Museum screens documentary about Garrison Keillor
When a show ” take “ER,” for example ” has been around for a long time, it’s easy for people to start thinking it has more cultural significance than it really does. “A Prairie Home Companion” is a radio show that has been broadcast from St. Paul, Minn., for almost 40 years. While the show […]
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The Last House on the Left
Stephen King once wrote something to the effect that people read and watch horror as a dress rehearsal for death. This makes sense, even if horror characters often suffer gruesome deaths at the hands of zombies, vampires and amorphous CGI blobs. While some horror movies give death a cartoon-like polish, “The Last House on the […]
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OCMA screens Hurricane Katrina documentary
For those of us who don’t know New Orleans, the damage left by Hurricane Katrina is still an abstract concept. Aerial shots on the news showing roofs peering up from the stagnant floodwater surface, ant-sized people crowded on bridges, and bunched-up washes of unidentifiable, muddy debris were the only concrete evidence we had of the […]