E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial screens Friday as the festival’s Flashback Friday feature.
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Whether taking a break from this week’s festivities or relaxing, keep this list close and binge-watch these LGBT-themed films.
Whether taking a break from this week’s festivities or relaxing, keep this list close and binge-watch these LGBT-themed films.
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deadCENTER Today: Your daily podcast guide to the film festival
This daily podcast throughout the deadCENTER Film Festival offers you a guide to the films and events, along with interviews with filmmakers and festival organizers.
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May We Recommend: deadCENTER standouts and theme-grouped selections
As deadCENTER Film Festival embarks on its 15th consecutive year, its roster has grown to include local, regional, national and international films in multiple categories like documentary, shorts, comedy and drama.
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Get shorty
Mr. Hublot Size matters; sometimes smaller is better. At least that can often be the case at the multiplex, where movie studios confuse running time for substance. In screening a slew of short films nominated this year for Academy Awards, the Oklahoma City Museum of Art reminds cinephiles that length isn’t everything. The live-action nominees […]
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Romeo and Juliet, (U.S., 2014, dir. Don Roy King) get your heart racing for Valentine’s Day with the timeless love story Romeo and Juliet, 7:30 p.m., Feb. 13, 14; 2 p.m., Feb. 16. Quail Springs Mall, 2501 W. Memorial, 755-6530, quailspringsmall.com. THU–FRI, SUN 2014 Academy Award-Nominated Animated Short Films, see all of the animated short […]
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Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa
(2013) Strange as it sounds, come March 2, one of the films that stands a good chance of walking home with an Academy Award is Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa. It’s one of three nominees in the category of makeup, but still, the recognition marks real progress for films that open with a senior citizen getting […]
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Flying Fists of Kung Fu / Kickin’ It Shaolin Style
After about the third or fourth film I watched — either 5 Pattern Dragon Claws or 18 Fatal Strikes, I can’t be sure — I noticed how similar the movies were to another. I wasn’t exactly surprised, having digesting so many of these cheap chopsocky efforts over the years, but never in such close proximity. Basically, each […]
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Street Trash
Debuting on Blu-ray in Synapse Films’ “Special Meltdown Edition,” the 1987 skid-row epic centers on an auto junkyard populated by homeless winos. One of them, who looks like famed Torgo from Manos: The Hands of Fate, finds that a decades-old bottle of Tenafly Viper purchased at the local liquor store causes those who drink it […]
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Expendable real estate
Credit: Brad Gregg Either the Oklahoma-born martial artist-cum-actor is embarrassed about his prediction or he’s just been busy tackling a “honey-do” list to get a house ready for sale. Holes don’t patch themselves, you know. According to The Los Angeles Times, a Dallas home co-owned by Norris and his brother is on the market. If […]