When you dare open your film with a biblical quote about revenge, as “True Grit” does, you better deliver a story about revenge, and it better be epic. Rest assured, writing/directing siblings Joel and Ethan Coen (“No Country for Old Men”) have done that with their latest foray into the sinister side of the American […]
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Morgan road
Kylie Morgan9 p.m. Friday Coach’s Brewhouse 110 W. Main, Norman www.coachsbrewhouse.com 321-2739 Oklahoma native Kylie Morgan has plans for the future that measure up with most other country artists, like having a video on rotation on CMT or sharing the stage with Carrie Underwood, but she also has other goals that most have already reached, […]
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House calls
Anyone fed up with the aloof, crossarmed music experience might do well to get themselves invited to a Blue Moon House Concert. They are invitation-only, but it’s easy to snag one: Friend “Blue Moon House Concerts” on Facebook. The place is typically peopled by folks who live for the song — which, by default, are […]
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Athlete altruism
In the sports world, a lot of organizations volunteer their time, showing up long enough to smile for the camera and sign an autograph or two. In the world of University of Oklahoma women’s basketball coach Sherri Coale, her players roll up their sleeves, block out their schedules and get to work. Now in her […]
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My Dog Tulip
It may be only coincidence that the animated feature “My Dog Tulip” is distributed by New Yorker Films, but Paul and Sandra Fierlinger’s film looks like cartoons torn from the pages of The New Yorker: erudite and engaging, but hardly realistic-looking, and likely not to be understood by the average person. The brisk film plays […]
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Gulliver’s Travels
I’ve been suspicious for some time, but now it’s official: I am tired of Jack Black’s overaged rocker shtick. Sorry, Jethro, but you can be too old to be a rock ’n’ roll doofus, and Black is. In “Gulliver’s Travels,” he brings that character to Jonathan Swift’s 1726 scathing satire, and the result makes little […]