All Hank Stuever wants for Christmas is the same thing he wanted when he was 14: some cash in his pocket so he can walk around Quail Springs Mall and buy whatever strikes his fancy. “I always wanted cash, which my mother never gave me,” he said. “She wasn’t having it.” But it’d be nice […]
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Oklahoma City native Hank Stuever brings ‘Tinsel’ to town
All Hank Stuever wants for Christmas is the same thing he wanted when he was 14: some cash in his pocket so he can walk around Quail Springs Mall and buy whatever strikes his fancy. “I always wanted cash, which my mother never gave me,” he said. “She wasn’t having it.” But it’d be nice […]
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You’re Welcome America: A Final Night with George W. Bush
2009 Many a “Saturday Night Live” player has lampooned a U.S. President, but Will Ferrell is the only one to parlay such an impersonation from 30 Rock to Broadway. For those who didn’t see it in the Big Apple during its successful, Tony-nominated run or on HBO, DVD brings “You’re Welcome America: A Final Night […]
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North by Northwest: 50th Anniversary Edition
1959 You probably knew this already, but on its 50th birthday, it bears repeating: “North by Northwest” is one of Alfred Hitchcock’s very best films, right up there alongside “Psycho,” “Rear Window” and “Strangers on a Train.” That also makes it among cinema’s all-time greatest thrillers. To celebrate its five decades of awesomeness, Warner Home […]
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Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation!
2008 It’s not every day you see a documentary feature dedicated to the crazy genre films of Australia. And thank goodness, because I came away from “Not Quite Hollywood” with so many new titles on my “gotta see” list that it damn well may bankrupt me. How did movies this out-there stay such a well-kept […]
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The William Castle Film Collection
1959-1964 Call William Castle a “schlock” director if you want, but you’d be doing a disservice to his enormously entertaining horror pictures of the ’50s and ’60s. For those who already know that, “The William Castle Film Collection” is the DVD release of the year. The five-disc set contains eight movies, including his most beloved, […]
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I was a delivery driver for Oklahoma Gazette in the mid-’80s
From 1986 to 1988, northwest Oklahoma City had me to thank for finding an Oklahoma Gazette on area racks “¦ not that it ever did. Yes, before I was managing editor of this very publication, I was one of its delivery drivers! LOW-TECH DAYS QUICK WITH THE SCISSORS It was my first paycheck job, and […]
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I was a delivery driver for Oklahoma Gazette in the mid-’80s
From 1986 to 1988, northwest Oklahoma City had me to thank for finding an Oklahoma Gazette on area racks “¦ not that it ever did. Yes, before I was managing editor of this very publication, I was one of its delivery drivers! LOW-TECH DAYS QUICK WITH THE SCISSORS It was my first paycheck job, and […]
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The Hunger: The Complete Second Season
The other 21 episodes of Showtime’s “The Hunger” anthology series adapt short stories written by celebrated authors in the dark-fantasy genre, including Gemma Files, Christa Faust, David J. Schow, Charles De Lint, Ramsey Campbell, Karl Edward Wagner, Kim Newman, Tanith Lee and Poppy Z. Brite. Even Cornell Woolrich, he of “Rear Window” fame, is mined […]
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Jackass: The Lost Tapes
2009 If you’ve never been a fan of “Jackass” before, “Jackass: The Lost Tapes” is not going to convert you. It’s simply more of the same. Of course, that’s good news to the “Jackass” faithful who made the MTV show into a pop-culture (or should that be poop-culture) smash and turned two feature films into […]