<iframe marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" style="width: 120px; height: 240px;" src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=oklahgazet-20&o=1&p=8&l=as1&asins=B002ZG97F6&fc1=000000&IS2=1 Too bad more family films can’t be like “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” — in a word: painless. Possibly even more enjoyable to adults than its target audience of middle-schoolers, the movie never insults the intelligence of either. Based on the Jeff Kinney’s popular series of illustrated […]
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The Other Guys
Maybe decades from now, the director/star team of Adam McKay and Will Ferrell will be thought of as this generation’s film-comedy equivalent of Billy Wilder and Jack Lemmon. Hey, I said “maybe.” I’m someone who always looks forward to seeing Ferrell in a movie, but someone who really, really looks forward when said movie also […]
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Piranha / Humanoids from the Deep
<iframe marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" style="width: 120px; height: 240px;" src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=oklahgazet-20&o=1&p=8&l=as1&asins=B00317LM8S&fc1=000000&IS2=1 Although released separately, the two latest releases in the “Roger Corman’s Cult Classics” line make a great double feature: 1978’s “Piranha” and 1980’s “Humanoids from the Deep.” Both involve killer creatures in the water; both harken to the days of using rubber props and creative ingenuity to […]
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Winter’s Bone
Despair and misery hang over every frame of “Winter’s Bone,” like the dried, twisted branches of the trees hovering o’er the Ozarks, where this unflinching drama is set. It’s perhaps the most frightening locale in recent cinematic memory. With all the overgrown foliage, yard junk and plucked banjos present from the first shot, you spend […]
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The 40-Year-Old Coffee Virgin
Until recently, in my almost four decades of existence, the only bean to pass these lips was jellied. The only joe in my life was the guy who works across the hall. The only jitters I got were if my basement office was too cold in the dead of winter. No lie! I am That […]
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Just like its mineral namesake, the Angelina Jolie actioner ‘Salt’ isn’t good for you
As the film’s tagline goes, “Who is Salt?” Who cares? Assuming you still want to know the answer, “Salt” is a nicely shot action film of sheer just-below-averageness, doomed by a numb, plot-hole-aplenty script that asked me to suspend my disbelief more than I was willing. Salt is also the name of the CIA agent […]
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Christopher Nolan’s ‘Inception’ an uncommonly intelligent blend of crime and fantasy
Remember when “The Matrix” came out in 1999 and its disciples treated it like a philosophy textbook? In reality, it was about as deep as those plastic turtle wading pools you can buy at Walmart. Its stinky sequels proved the emperor wore no clothes. They should have saved their praise for “Inception,” because it’s a […]
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Cyrus
As played by Jonah Hill (“Get Him to the Greek”) in the new dramedy by writer/director siblings Jay and Mark Duplass, the 21-year-old Cyrus lives at home with his single mom, eschews things like “school” and “work,” and spends his time composing techno tunes on his cache of synthesizers. That all adds up to trouble […]
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Keep these flicks on your radar at the 10th deadCENTER Film Festival, since you can’t see everything
deadCENTER has been building momentum for a decade, and organizers expect more than 10,000 film fans to help celebrate the event’s 10th year. There’s more than 100 movies screening today through Sunday at seven spots spread throughout downtown. The Gazette film crew knows there’s no way to watch it all, so we watched everything we […]
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DVDs for Dad make for a no-brainer gift
/6HExkGuEjjA&hl=en_US&fs=1&” type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” allowscriptaccess=”always” allowfullscreen=”true” height=”310″ width=”515″> “Royal Pains: Season 1“Among USA’s original series, “Burn Notice” gets most of the love, but “Royal Pains” shouldn’t be ignored, either. Mark Feuerstein stars ” and charms ” as Dr. Hank Lawson, rebuilding his personal and professional life in the Hamptons, living with his quirky brother (Paulo Costanzo). The […]