According to online language tools, the title Meet the Fockers roughly translates to Rencontrer les Fockers in French. I bring this up only because Parisian-born actress Julie Delpy (Before Sunset) essentially has made a French-flavored version of that comedy with 2 Days in New York, which she directed and co-wrote. 2 Days plays for exactly […]
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Bad traffic
Zule Farms in Lexington Credit: Mark Hancock The evidence that Mexican drug cartels are doing business in Oklahoma appears overwhelming, and while the state has not seen levels of cartel-fueled violence even close to that occurring in Mexico, the Sooner State does play an unfortunate role in the madness. Situated almost squarely in the middle […]
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The Raid: Redemption
About to hit — and I do mean hit — Blu-ray and DVD after a limited but lauded theatrical release in April, the film carries the barest of plots. For 10 years, a much-feared mobster in a 15th-floor compound has ruled over a decrepit apartment building housing not only his narcotic enterprise, but also the dregs […]
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American Animal
• watch porn• smoke pot• smoke cigarettes• have sex• stage Christmas• dance• spit blood• have sex again• change into a bunch of “funny” costumes• speak in “funny” invented languages That more or less doubles as a plot summary for the no-budget comedy (drama?). Matt D’Elia serves as writer (improviser?), director and center as Jimmy, a […]
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Don’t Go in the Woods
The first feature as director for longtime fine actor Vincent D’Onofrio (Kill the Irishman), Woods is as ambling as the five young musicians — one of whom is blind — who drive their van to a forest for a songwriting retreat, where the following things are not allowed: booze, drugs, girls, phones and common sense. That […]
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Kill Speed
Flashy, yet trashy, Kill Speed is as generic as its meaningless title implies. It so wants to be another shit-goes-fast blockbuster like The Fast and the Furious, which gets name-checked in a roundabout way, but on a small budget. I believe such a thing is not impossible. One just has to do what writer/director Kim […]
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Meep, meep
Brad Gregg Legislators and law enforcement keep coming up with ACME-styled schemes to stop it, but somehow that tweaked-out bird keeps booking it, whether its final destination is to alleviate the agony of allergy sufferers or in a makeshift meth lab. And so it goes. In the latest volley in the war on meth, Gov. […]
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Drug testing no answer
First, some background. The state Department of Human Services already does some drug testing as a condition of receiving a check from the government. Basically, the way it works is that the applicant is interviewed by a DHS employee, and if that employee thinks you are on drugs, a drug test is ordered. (I’m not […]
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Stunning discrepancy
Amnesty issued a Feb. 15 news release to bring attention to the national death toll from Tasers hitting the 500 mark. It indicated OKCPD as being responsible for seven deaths by Taser over the last decade. However, OKCPD Capt. Dexter Nelson said that since 2003 there have been six recorded deaths that occurred after a […]
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Acid test
Just ask police in Edmond. In the largest LSD bust in the city’s history, authorities last week arrested an 18-year-old man reportedly carrying 1,041 doses of acid. To help put that in perspective, the seizure of 1,041 doses of LSD roughly equals: —40, 601 instances of dry mouth and jitteriness, —13,462 sudden epiphanies about the […]