1998 With “Phantasm IV: Oblivious,” writer/director Don Coscarelli didn’t made so much a proper sequel as he did a loose string of weird, dream-like imagery and an anything-but-lucid narrative. This thing makes so little sense that you’ll halfway wish for one of those flying metal spheres to slam into your skull. Our heroes, Mike and […]
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Oklahoma River hosts wakeboard event
Helping make waves as the Oklahoma River turns into more of a go-to venue for all get-wet sporting events is the World Wakeboard Association’s Wakeboard World Championships, to be held 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursday through Sunday at the river, S.W. 17th Street and Western Avenue. With nearly 4.4 million people participating in the […]
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Beetlejuice: 20th Anniversary Edition
1998 “Beetlejuice” was Tim Burton’s second film, and it’s the best live-action representation of the highly imaginative director’s style, at a time before his name became an adjective. The kooky comedy is about married lovebirds (Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis) who die, yet live in their comfy country home as ghosts. New city folk move […]
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Glen Campbell — Meet Glen Campbell
Capitol The quickest way for a once-superstar singer to rehabilitate his career and recapture relevance among today’s audiences is issue a cover album. Rod Stewart can’t rape the American standard songbook fast enough, and now it’s Glen Campbell’s turn. Except that the former Rhinestone Cowboy and erstwhile Wichita Lineman has his sights set on a […]
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Oklahoma authors tell their side of the story in a round of recent releases
On every book’s spine is the name of its author. Although their work rests in the hands of those around the world, some may live literally around the corner. Here are six recent releases ” some big, some small ” from Oklahoma authors. Jack Willis, former adviser to the University of Oklahoma’s student-run newspaper, The […]
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Trapped Ashes
2006 On a Hollywood studio tour, seven tourists are taken inside a “Psycho”-like house, in which they get trapped. To get out, they have to share their stories of struggle, all of which are wonderfully sick and twisted. That’s the structure of “Trapped Ashes,” an homage to the Amicus-style horror anthology film. It’s the kind […]
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The Mummy / The Mummy Returns: 2-Disc Deluxe Edition
1999 / 2001 With “The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor” now in theaters, there’s no better way to reacquaint yourself with the adventurous O’Connell family than the films that kick-started the franchise: “The Mummy” and its sequel, “The Mummy Returns.” Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz make a cute couple (if an improbable pairing) in […]
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The Mummy: Special Edition
1932 As good as “Frankenstein” is, when it comes to the classic movie monsters, I’ll choose “The Mummy” every time. He may move slowly, but the 1932 that introduced him is a quick watch —? a mix of horror, mystery and adventure that still plays well today. Boris Karloff has the second-best role of his […]
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Pro pool player leads ladies rackin’ ’em up at tourney
Ewa Mataya Laurance is a gorgeous woman. You know it, she knows it ” they don’t call her “the Striking Viking” for nothing. But as the saying goes, she’s more than just a pretty face. The Sweden native is one of the globe’s top professional pool players ” a multiple titleholder, at one time the […]
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Horror Films — Colin Odell and Michelle Le Blanc
Kamera Books From the UK comes “Horror Films,” a compact paperback aiming to give an overview of fright flicks from the world over. (Who knew there was such a scene in “Australasia”? There’s a whole chapter devoted to it.) Unlike the many books on entertainment shelves covering movies of malice, Kamera Books’ offering is not […]