From 1971, “Pretty Maids All in a Row” is a study in contradictions. It’s a sex comedy, but written by “Star Trek” creator Gene Roddenberry. It stars Rock Hudson as quite the ladies’ man, but, well, Rock Hudson. It’s rated R, but sports a theme song by those famous Mormon vocalists known as The Osmonds. […]
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Luther
mp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B003R4ZMS6″>The Big C” and “The Office“) as a man of much instinct and intellect, but also a short temper and personal torment. His workaholic actions have driven his wife (Indria Varma, TV’s “Human Target“) into the arms of another man, and he can’t accept it. Luther’s rather shaky marriage is an ongoing struggle throughout the […]
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Eye of the Devil
Despite being told not to, Catherine Montfaucon (Deborah Kerr) takes the kids and follows hubby Philippe (David Niven) from their Paris home to the perfectly Gothic vineyard Castle Bellenac in “Eye of the Devil,” a 1966 thriller from veteran director J. Lee Thompson (“Cape Fear“). There, she finds Donald Pleasence as a man of […]
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Now That’s What I Call the 1990s
Ridiculously successful, EMI’s “Now That’s What I Call Music!” compilation series is up to volume 36, with some themed offshoots here and there. The latest of those is “Now That’s What I Call the 1990s” or, as I dub it, “Now That’s What I Call Officially Feeling Old.” Subtitled as “the alternative collection,” hardly any […]
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Sherlock: Season One
It’s tough to get too excited about the year’s best films when you compare them to the year’s best television shows. With rare exception (read: “Inception“), the boob tube kicked the big screen’s arse left and right in terms of quality all year long, with work like “Mad Men,” “Dexter” and “Breaking Bad.” Add “Sherlock” […]
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Airing soon on OETA, the documentary ‘Oklahoma City A to Z’ spells out what people love about our capital city.
In Jack Frank’s version of Oklahoma City, the letter A stands for Ann’s Chicken Fry House; L for Leo’s Barbecue; and H, well, that stands for hippopotamus. A documentary filmmaker from Tulsa, Frank released a film last year titled “Tulsa A to Z.” This year, he focused his lens farther down the turnpike for “Oklahoma […]
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Get nailed with Norman native Donny Vomit at the Pretty Things Peepshow
Donny Vomit with Pretty Things Peepshow 10 p.m. Wednesday HiLo Club 1221 N.W. 50th www.humanblockhead.com www.prettythingspeepshow.com 843-1722 $8 In today’s anemic job market, it is critical to make one’s résumé stand out. And few things do like being able to hammer a nail frighteningly deep into a nose canal. Although the application of that […]
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The Art of the Tool
OKG PICK From tools dating back to ancient Egypt to a Phillips screwdriver easily found in any toolbox today, a cache of handy items is on display at Science Museum Oklahoma, 2100 N.E. 52nd. “The Art of the Tool” highlights the scientific artistry found within the many objects people use on a daily basis without […]
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Vertigo Resurrected: Shoot
Nice shot, “Shoot”! For the first in a new line of super-sized anthologies under the “Vertigo Resurrected” banner, Vertigo reaches back to the late 1990s and early 2000s with “Shoot,” so named for its lead story, a never-before-published tale of senseless schoolyard homicides. Written by Warren Ellis and featuring John Constantine, Hellblazer, it’s no wonder […]
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The Expendables
Your Blu-Ray player can’t get any manlier than when it’s spinning “The Expendables.” Sylvester Stallone’s action extravaganza is the manliest man’s man movie ever made for mankind. Your muscles expand just from watching. It doesn’t have a brain in its well-oiled body, but who needs smarts when your pores are exuding this much fun? When […]