A biopic is kind of like reality TV, but with people you’re actually interested in. It generally involves taking a famous person’s biography, cutting out some of the boring stuff while ignoring other stuff that doesn’t support the story you want to tell, and voila: a movie audiences will pay to see. The film screens […]
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Biopic follows struggle of a fashion icon in ‘Coco Before Chanel’
A biopic is kind of like reality TV, but with people you’re actually interested in. It generally involves taking a famous person’s biography, cutting out some of the boring stuff while ignoring other stuff that doesn’t support the story you want to tell, and voila: a movie audiences will pay to see. The film screens […]
Documentary explores inspirational life, assassination of Rev. Stanley Rother
It was beyond sundown, and two Oklahoma priests drove through from the city limits to the Guatemalan church. No streetlights were visible, but the Rev. Marvin Leven could see people everywhere. Everyone was talking about his traveling companion, the Rev. Stanley Rother. SPIRIT PRESERVATION HATE SHEET SAINTING STANLEY “As we drove through it, I heard […]
Documentary explores inspirational life, assassination of Rev. Stanley Rother
It was beyond sundown, and two Oklahoma priests drove through from the city limits to the Guatemalan church. No streetlights were visible, but the Rev. Marvin Leven could see people everywhere. Everyone was talking about his traveling companion, the Rev. Stanley Rother. SPIRIT PRESERVATION HATE SHEET SAINTING STANLEY “As we drove through it, I heard […]
Evangelion: 1.0′ reboots ’90s Japanese TV series with symbolic imagery
Collectively, the Japanese imagination is pretty effing wild. Moving from the “Godzilla” movies to Hayao Miyazaki’s crazy mind-scapes to the landmark “Ghost in the Shell” and cultural mashups like “Cowboy Bebop,” Japanese movies and TV shows exist in their own warped-mirror, pop-culture alternate universe. “Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone” is a reboot of a […]
Evangelion: 1.0′ reboots ’90s Japanese TV series with symbolic imagery
Collectively, the Japanese imagination is pretty effing wild. Moving from the “Godzilla” movies to Hayao Miyazaki’s crazy mind-scapes to the landmark “Ghost in the Shell” and cultural mashups like “Cowboy Bebop,” Japanese movies and TV shows exist in their own warped-mirror, pop-culture alternate universe. “Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone” is a reboot of a […]
Oklahoma City University screens film on unsolved Chinese disaster
Americans tend to focus completely on what’s happening here and often overlook other countries that are struggling to catch up to the technological lifestyle we live every day. Filmmaker Jia Zhang-ke brings attention to this issue by focusing on a disaster in China that remains unsolved. Oklahoma City University, 2501 N. Blackwelder, continues its “This […]
Oklahoma City University screens film on unsolved Chinese disaster
Americans tend to focus completely on what’s happening here and often overlook other countries that are struggling to catch up to the technological lifestyle we live every day. Filmmaker Jia Zhang-ke brings attention to this issue by focusing on a disaster in China that remains unsolved. Oklahoma City University, 2501 N. Blackwelder, continues its “This […]
Thick with racial tension, shady dealings, urban gardeners fight for South Central plot
In 1992, to soothe tensions after riots induced by the Rodney King verdict, the city of Los Angeles sectioned off a 14-acre garden plot, hoping to sow seeds of community goodwill that would overgrow weeds of urban blight and anger. In the decade after the garden was built, it blossomed at the hands of mostly […]
Thick with racial tension, shady dealings, urban gardeners fight for South Central plot
In 1992, to soothe tensions after riots induced by the Rodney King verdict, the city of Los Angeles sectioned off a 14-acre garden plot, hoping to sow seeds of community goodwill that would overgrow weeds of urban blight and anger. In the decade after the garden was built, it blossomed at the hands of mostly […]
