The House and Senate voted to sustain Film Enhancement Rebate Program, aka House Bill 2580 (aka The Compete with Canada Film Act), would keep the rebate initiative alive through 2024. It now heads to the governor for perusal. Not everybody’s happy about it. “The taxpayers of this state shouldn’t be forced to finance a film […]
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Gravity
That said, it’s a must-own Blu-ray, and the bigger the TV you have, the better. Rightly the recipient of seven Academy Awards earlier this month, Gravity quickly gets rolling, with U.S. astronaut Matt Kowalski (George Clooney, The Monuments Men) and scientist Ryan Stone (Sandra Bullock, The Heat) left to their own devices — and possibly […]
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Beneath
The effort he gives Beneath makes the Chiller Films presentation better than your average made-for-TV monster movie — or below-average, in the recent case of Hypothermia, a similar film in which Fessenden appeared. To the teens of Beneath stranded on a boat in the supposedly cursed Black Lake, a killer fish provides the fatal threat — not a […]
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In Fear
After just two weeks of knowing one another, Tom (Iain De Caestecker, TV’s Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.) asks Lucy (Alice Englert, Beautiful Creatures) to a fest in Ireland, but makes plans for nookie one night early by booking a room at a romantic hotel in the country. Driving to their destination, they get lost, failing […]
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Machine Head
What’s missing? A reason to care. Marlboro-throated Rachel (Sharon Hinnendael, star of the recent Embrace of the Vampire remake) and her fellow spoiled-brat friends spend spring break at a totally sweet Cali-desert house owned by some rich dude her dad knows. The girls lose their enthusiasm over a week of endless drinking and dicking when […]
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Homefront
The Stath plays ex-DEA agent Phil Broker, who when we first meet him, dons a Bad Wig Hall of Fame-worthy mullet for undercover work busting a Sons of Anarchy-esque biker gang / drug ring that ends in tragedy. Two years later, Broker is experiencing grief himself as a new widower. He and his 9-year-old […]
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FILM
Ghost, (U.S., 1944, dir. Vincente Minnelli) the four Smith daughters learn lessons of life and love even as they prepare for a reluctant move to New York, 7 p.m., Mar. 20. Windsor 10 Theatre, 4623 NW 23rd St., 917-2299, bbtheatres.com. THU Visitors, (U.S., 2014, dir. Godfrey Reggio) film reveals humanity’s trance-like relationship with technology which […]
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RECAP: South by Southwest, day one
Day 1 was a scorcher, at least according to the standard set by Oklahoma City’s frozen tundra. The high for the day peaked at about 83, but at times, it felt even warmer. Thankfully, The Buffalo Lounge had just the remedy. I arrived at the downtown Austin venue — this year at Avenue on Congress, […]
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LIFE
The University of Central Oklahoma’s American Democracy Project will educate the public about privacy and internet security with film screenings of the 2013 documentary Terms and Conditions May Apply, directed by Cullen Hoback. With appearances by Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg and singer-songwriter Moby, the film explains to viewers that by accepting the terms and conditions […]
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OKC Film Club celebrates one year
Three silent short films will be accompanied by local musicians and a cinema art show, organizers said. It is free and open to the public. Doors open 6:30 p.m. Thursday. Films run each hour, starting at 7 p.m. OKC Film Club is a community organization that presents free film screenings the first Tuesday of each […]