Travis LeDoyt as Elvis8 p.m. Saturday Riverwind Casino 154 West Highway 9, Norman 322-6464 $10-$20 Travis LeDoyt wants to get something straight right away: He doesn’t think he’s Elvis Presley. Although LeDoyt is an Elvis impersonator with an uncanny ability to sound and look like the King, he refuses to be lumped in with so […]
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The King’s Speech
“The King’s Speech” is one of those films seemingly made with a checklist for garnering awards. Real-life story of an embattled hero overcoming a handicap? Check. About the British monarchy? Check. Customarily great British actors being customarily great and, um, British? Check. Still, “Speech” also has another trick up its sleeve: It is excellent — […]
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Which comes first?
Amid nationwide momentum for renewable energy, advocates of compressed natural gas are hoping that an increase of CNG fueling stations in Oklahoma will drive natural gas-powered vehicles, or NGVs, to become more popular with the public. Natural gas is already popular with many for its environmental and energypolicy implications. It’s a clean-burning fuel, relatively inexpensive […]
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127 Hours
Man-versus-nature tales don’t get more elemental or harrowing than the real-life one involving Aron Ralston. You might not recognize the name, but you probably know the incident for which he’s famous. In May 2003, Ralston was mountain climbing in a remote section of Utah when, in a freak accident, a boulder crushed his right hand […]
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Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin hails from Missouri, exports power pop
Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin with Junebug Spade 9 p.m. Wednesday Opolis 113 N. Crawford, Norman www.starlightmints.com/opolis.html 820-0951 $8 advance, $10 door Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin is certainly one of the more unwieldy band names in rock ‘n’ roll history, an especially impressive distinction in a field that’s witnessed The Voluptuous Horror […]
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Never Let Me Go
“Never Let Me Go” is easier to admire than love, a movie as frustrating as it is fascinating. That probably doesn’t sound like a ringing endorsement, but this science-fiction romance is too haunting and provocative to dismiss simply because of some missteps. Based on the acclaimed 2005 novel by Kazuo Ishiguro, “Never Let Me Go” […]
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The Social Network
As the boy wonder who invented Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg is, at age 26, the world’s youngest-ever billionaire. He is also, at least according to the film “The Social Network,” an exposed nerve of insecurities and resentments —? a bona fide genius whose brilliance is matched only by his cruelty. To put it in Facebook terms, […]
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Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
Based on a series of graphic novels by Bryan Lee O’Malley, “Scott Pilgrim vs. the World” is a movie with ADD and a lapsed Ritalin prescription. That’s not particularly a bad thing. The film moves as fast as a bullet train, crackles with wit and has enough hipster references to snag an invite to an […]
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Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work’ is an extraordinary, bittersweet documentary about comedy, career and insecurity
It would have been easy for the makers of “Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work” to take a by-the-numbers approach to their subject. Among the pioneers of edgy stand-up comedy ” she joked about “putting out” and abortions long before such topics became fodder for female comedians ” Rivers was instrumental in paving the way […]
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Despite a few moments of inspiration, ‘Despicable Me’ is disposable stuff
Among the pop-culture treasures of Mad magazine is its venerable “Spy vs. Spy” series. With its two saboteurs hell-bent on doing each other in, the comic strip is a wry send-up of dastardly high-tech espionage. “Despicable Me,” a new computer-generated, 3-D animated movie that involves a pair of adversarial supervillains, is at its best when […]