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Filmed in rural Mississippi, “Ballast” details the lives of a family coping with suicide and poverty. The feature-length debut from director Lance Hammer won awards for direction and cinematography at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival and has been nominated for six Independent Spirit Awards. The film screens 7:30 p.m. Thursday, and 5:30 and 8 p.m. […]

For its third time, the Oklahoma Film Critics Circle ” the state’s professional association of movie critics ” has released its picks for the year’s top releases. “Slumdog Millionaire” was selected as the best motion picture of 2008, just one vote ahead of “The Dark Knight.” The remaining films selected for the year’s 10 best […]

Oklahoma Gazette film reviewers take stock in 2008’s erratic cine-conomy, detailing its tops and tumbles, and outlining good and bad bets for next year’s movie market. DOUG BENTINJOE WERTZMIKE ROBERTSONPHIL BACHARACHROD LOTT Doug BentinWith a love for classic horror movies and Westerns, Bentin takes particular stock in movies made before the mid-1950s and well-told, linear […]

Opposite the feeling most adults get after such a trip, Mikey decides his holiday visit with his parents just wasn’t enough, in “Momma’s Man.” Lying about trouble with his flight, Mikey (Matt Boren) leaves the airport and heads back to his childhood home, insisting to both mom and dad ” and his wife ” that […]

For those of us who don’t know New Orleans, the damage left by Hurricane Katrina is still an abstract concept. Aerial shots on the news showing roofs peering up from the stagnant floodwater surface, ant-sized people crowded on bridges, and bunched-up washes of unidentifiable, muddy debris were the only concrete evidence we had of the […]

Vacant Era’s youthful board of directors bristled with bold ideas, defiant optimism and caffeine as they took over Norman’s Winans Fine Chocolate & Coffees one Sunday morning in September. The group was overcoming sleep deprivation at a planning meeting to discuss the inaugural Vacant Era Film Festival, which opens Thursday and runs through Sunday. With […]

Four movies. One giant screen. Starting Thursday, Science Museum Oklahoma, 2100 N.E. 52nd, plays host to its annual Film Fest, featuring four IMAX movies focused on the wonder (and occasional ire) of Mother Nature. From Thursday to Sunday, and again on Sept. 18-21, film lovers can purchase a Film Fest pass that allows them to […]

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away”¦ Well, last weekend, anyway, at the Harkins Bricktown Cinemas. It was the opening of George Lucas’ latest addition to the saga that began in 1977 with what was then known as “Star Wars,” aka “Star Wars: Episode IV ” A New Hope.” (If you think […]

If there is a real lesson to be learned from watching “Little Miss Sunshine,” “National Lampoon’s Vacation” or “Weekend at Bernie’s,” it’s that corpses equal comedy gold. Cinematically, we also know stepmothers are always evil. So when Mark and Brian Stanton’s dad, a dedicated University of Oklahoma fan, dies, and his money-grubbing shrew of a […]