With 2025 almost in the rearview mirror, it’s as good a time as any to assess the year in film, particularly since it has been a considerable improvement over the comparatively listless 2024. Although, one would not necessarily know it based on box-office receipts. It is no secret that moviegoing has been on the proverbial […]
Phil Bacharach
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Back in business
After a pandemic, the streaming revolution and strikes by actors and screenwriters, the good news is that the theater experience is back in business. People are going to movies again. The less good news: Hollywood is woefully short on originality. With a few exceptions, namely Sinners and F1: The Movie, virtually all the box-office successes […]
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Summer flicks
Movies love summer. The two just go together, kindred spirits dedicated to childhood, fun and escapism. Hollywood saves its blockbuster entertainments for that period between Memorial Day and Labor Day, of course, but there is also that class of films that are set during or otherwise pay homage to the season of long days and […]
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deadCENTER picks
As always, deadCenter Film Festival offers an embarrassment of cinematic riches. These are a few notables that look particularly interesting: Free Leonard Peltier 8 p.m. Friday, June 13 Oklahoma City Museum of Art – Noble Theater 415 Couch Drive 7 p.m. Sunday, June 15 Harkins Theatres Bricktown 16 – Auditorium 15 150 E. Reno Ave. […]
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Sizzling and surfing
Misericordia 5:00 p.m. May 17 3:30 p.m. May 18 Oklahoma City Museum of Art 415 Couch Drive 405-236-3100 okcmoa.com $6-$10 Misericordia Misericordia opens from the point of view of an unknown driver navigating winding roads of southern France until we finally arrive at Saint-Martial, the sort of European village that likely hasn’t changed in centuries. […]
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Remembering the bombing
The current article is intended to be an extension of Remembering the bombing. Odds are that most Oklahomans over the age of 40 can tell you where they were when they heard that the Oklahoma City federal building had been bombed. It is also fair to presume that anyone under 40 has no recollection of […]
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Remembering the bombing
Odds are that most Oklahomans over the age of 40 can tell you where they were when they heard that the Oklahoma City federal building had been bombed. It is also fair to presume that anyone under 40 has no recollection of it whatsoever, provided they were even born before April 19, 1995. As someone […]
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Doc dose
Frederick Wiseman: Documenting American Life 7:30 p.m., Thursday, March 13 Titicut Follies 7:30 p.m., Thursday, March 20 High School 7:30 p.m., Thursday, March 27 Law and Order 7 p.m., Thursday, April 3 Welfare Later in AprilThe Store, Central Park, Belfast, Maine Oklahoma City Museum of Art 415 Couch Drive (405) 920-1759 okcmoa.com Rodeo Cinema Stockyards […]
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Isn’t it romantic?
Valentine’s Day is just around the corner. It’s when we remember the 1929 Chicago slaying of seven gangsters orchestrated by Al Capone. Just kidding. Of course, I am referring to the annual celebration of love and its accompanying obligation to ply one’s beloved with flowers, fancy chocolates, battery-operated sex toys, what have you. Hey, I […]
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2024 in film
In the wake of a pandemic, an uncertain future for multiplexes, and strikes in 2023 by the Writers Guild of America and Screen Actors Guild, Hollywood prognosticators and self-appointed observers presumed 2024 would be dismal for film. Thankfully, such pronouncements proved unfounded. While box office receipts saw a slight dip from the previous year, there […]