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While people of a certain mind-set view making and enjoying art as a lazy, self-indulgent and ultimately wasteful activity, a lot of other people view it as absolutely necessary for preserving identity ” whether that identity is individual, familial or national. Set somewhere around the year 800, “The Secret of Kells” explores this theme through […]

Guys usually dread watching a chick flick with their female companions. Nick Waters watched 30. In a row. On purpose. Last July 31, the Pauls Valley man was viewing just such a movie with his wife, when an idea hit him: “I remember asking her, ‘Wouldn’t it be cool to watch 30 chick flicks in […]

Make no mistake: Art is an industry like any other, one that’s cleverly marketed and shrewdly manipulated. Some of the gritty financials of one specific segment are exposed in “The Great Contemporary Art Bubble,” a surprising documentary that explores the forces that guide and shape the market as well as the players and their tactics […]

In two of the many fine 2009 films that didn’t earn Academy Award attention this year, a pair of women give two performances that make Sandra Bullock’s serviceable, Southern-fried turn as Leigh Anne Tuohy in “The Blind Side” look damn puny. The pretty pat film surrounding that Oscar-winning performance has, so far, earned $252,692,000 in […]

On its surface, fame seems like a straightforward proposition: Someone does something that is spontaneously recognized by a large number of people. These people all agree together that this person is inherently kick-ass, which results in what we know as fame. But there’s famous, and there’s megafamous. Sometimes a person comes along who is so […]

Oscar Tune-Up: Academy Award-Nominated Short FilmsAnimated5:30 p.m. Friday-SaturdayLive action8 p.m. Friday-SaturdayOklahoma City Museum of Art415 Couchwww.okcmoa.com/film278-8237$8 adults, $6 seniors and students Rounding out its “Oscar Tune-up” series, the Oklahoma City Museum of Art will screen all 10 short films nominated for Academy Awards this weekend, separated among animated and live-action, before Sunday’s Oscar telecast. Here’s […]

In the run-up to real war, the messiest battles are waged behind the scenes by bureaucratic troops armed with memos, leaked reports, white papers and committees. These soldiers are as fierce as they are petty, and every effort is made to minimize collateral damage to precious political careers. Thick tension A British satire of the […]

Last Saturday, indie distributor IFC Films bought the U.S. rights to “The Killer Inside Me,” a star-studded project shot last spring on location in Oklahoma, in a deal signed amid mixed reactions from audiences at last week’s Sundance Film Festival. Variety reported that IFC paid around $1.5 million for the film, which is based on […]

The end of the world is one of those subjects that people everywhere simultaneously fear and can’t stop thinking about. Our mixed reaction to the world’s death is a reflection of a struggle with our own individual deaths, and as much as we try to ignore the inevitability of both, it’s still there, waiting. Most […]