Up for three Academy Awards on Sunday, all for its main performances, the inspired-by-Scientology-but-not-really drama follows Navy vet Freddie Quell (Joaquin Phoenix, Walk the Line) as he returns home post-WWII to find he never really had a home to begin with. He doesn’t “fit” anywhere; his string of tenuous relationships — with women, with jobs […]
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Argo
It’s a testament to the skills of the filmmakers that Argo delivers a deluge of suspense even when its ending is never in doubt. Up for seven Oscars on Sunday, it was released earlier this week on Blu-ray and DVD. There’s no way the movie industry could have resisted this stranger-than-fiction yarn. The film chronicles […]
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Searching for Sugar Man
Take, for example, Searching for Sugar Man. Currently up for the Best Documentary Feature Academy Award and new to DVD, the doc introduces us to the saga of the one-named Rodriguez, a criminally unknown singer-songwriter from the early 1970s whose career sank into obscurity in his native United States, but whose influence proved monumental in, […]
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Congrats, Mr. Mayor!
Credit: Brad Gregg Hizzoner will receive the Joseph P. Riley Jr. Award for Leadership in Urban Design from the American Architectural Foundation (AAF) and the U.S. Conference of Mayors (USCM) for “his leadership in guiding the MAPS 3 initiative from concept to implementation.” While we here at Chicken-Fried News like the mayor — and particularly […]
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Frankenstein
And, in the early ’90s, he starred as the mad doctor in Frankenstein … for TNT, not Kenneth Branagh. Provided you missed it on during its CableACE Award-nominated broadcast, the better-than-average production is now alive — alive! — on MOD DVD from Warner Archive. Bergin’s Dr. Frankenstein is even more enterprising than in the Mary Shelley […]
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Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory
Co-directors Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky (Metallica: Some Kind of Monster) have chronicled the so-called “West Memphis Three” almost as long as the three young men at the story’s center were affixed with that unfortunate label for being accused of and convicted of killing a trio of boys in small-town Arkansas in 1993. The first […]
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The Swell Season
Musicians Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová were not an item when they played the MFEO lovers of Once, but that relationship status changed after the movie’s release. By the time they deservedly won the Academy Award for Best Original Song the following year, they were sharing more than honors. Taking its name from Hansard and […]
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What a boob
In the Feb. 9 news release heard ’round the world, the agency noted that the Insurance Commissioner’s Award would be “presented to the girl with the biggest tits.” Alas, no such award is awaiting top-heavy aspirants (unless ogling is its own reward). The Insurance Department issued an apology about an hour later, blaming the nip […]
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Bite Size
The Societies of Oklahoma City University are honoring four women at the annual Awards of Excellence dinner Feb. 26 at the Skirvin. The honorees are Jenny Love Meyer, being awarded the Kirkpatrick-Petree Music and Performing Arts Society Award; Julie Hall, awarded the Dulaney-Brown Library Society Award; Lori Hill, awarded Norick-Hulsey Art Gallery Society Award; and […]