Megalodon: Largest Shark That Ever Lived 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Mondays-Saturdays,1-5 p.m. Sundays through Jan 6. Sam Noble Museum 2401 Chautauqua Ave., Norman samnoblemuseum.ou.edu 405-325-4712 Free-$8 Though his net worth and killer business instincts help celebrity businessman Mark Cuban figuratively eat fledgling entrepreneurs alive on Shark Tank, the outspoken billionaire would be a literal snack to […]
Jaws
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Drive-In
(How meta it would’ve been to see this at an actual drive-in; I’ll settle for its DVD debut from Sony Pictures’ Choice Collection, rather than the alternative, which is to never see it at all.) Like American Graffiti three years before it, the movie follows a select handful of youngsters, mostly teens, over the course […]
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Shark Week
Patriot Games‘ Patrick Bergin is Tiberon (get it?), a madman who clutches a pearl necklace, has Kick-Ass’ Yancy Butler draped on his arm, and channels John de Lancie. He’s collected these poor souls for reasons unbeknownst until the final five minutes; you can gather it’s for personal revenge. He forces them into his baby shark-infested […]
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Jersey Shore Shark Attack
The great William Atherton, the reigning sleazeball of ’80s movies from Ghostbusters to Die Hard, plays a greedy developer breaking ground on a premiere beach club and spa near the New Jersey boardwalk. The underwater drilling — illegal, of course — unleashes a school of CGI albino sharks, just in time for the big Fourth […]
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Shark Night
If that’s your thing — and as a member of the “Jaws” generation, I have no shame in admitting it is — you’re going to have a blast. Where else will you see underwear-clad “American Idol” alum Katharine McPhee getting ripped to shreds? Now on Blu-ray minus the 3-D effects its slim audience had in […]
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Avalanche Express
I do not doubt that he does, yet I wonder how quickly his heart would beat for “Avalanche Express,” a 1979 thriller whose momentum does not match its promise in title or talent. It boasts the screen’s lone, unlikely teaming of Lee Marvin, Linda Evans and Joe Namath. They’ll all CIA agents sent to secure […]
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Trailers from Hell! Volume Two
It’s a deliriously entertaining collection of 20 coming attractions from yesteryear, delivered with intro and commentary by B moviemakers who love B movies. While born from the website created by director Joe Dante (“Gremlins,” “Piranha”), these are original to this Shout! Factory disc, so you’re not paying for something you can see for free (although […]
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Chawz
When you’re a parody — and this essentially is — you can have too much of a good thing. At some point, you just wear an audience out and risk having a pin poked at yourself. That comes way early, unfortunately, to the point where its title is all it has going for it. To […]
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High Lane
And the result is “High Lane.” Despite my mocking references, I actually kinda liked it, in a “well, that was a pretty painless 80 minutes” manner. Abel Ferry’s thriller has much in common in Australia’s “Primal,” also recently released by IFC Midnight, in that both concern a small group of young people venturing outside their […]
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Piranha 3D
It’s a loose remake of Joe Dante’s “Piranha,” which was born in 1978 because producer Roger Corman wanted to cash in on the popularity of “Jaws.” It worked. Things come full circle in “Mirrors” director Alexandre Aja’s version, opening with a prologue that winks back at Steven Spielberg’s shark blockbuster by having Richard Dreyfuss essentially […]