Photo: Nathan Poppe Right in the thick of a deep run into the NBA playoffs, Oklahoma City came together earlier this year in not only a frenzy of fandom, but a dawning realization that this indeed is a major-league city and, by extension, state. Somewhere between the OKC Thunder sweeping the Dallas Mavericks and taking […]
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All that jazz
Ask local jazz enthusiasts about vocalist Michael Summers, and they may refer to him as the “Michael Bublé of the 405.” This, however, is news to Summers. “You know what? I’m not offended,” Summers said. “He’s a great singer, for sure. I’ll take it!” While pleased with the comparison, he’s quick to note that he’s […]
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Halloween II / Halloween III: Season of the Witch / Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers / Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers
And if there weren’t, why do the sequels keep being re-released? The first four recently were — yet again, but with valid reason to upgrade and/or double-dip. Modest theatrical hits in 1988 and 1989, respectively, Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers and Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers make Blu-ray debuts courtesy of […]
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The Sorcerers
Explains the Monserrats to a complete stranger (Ian Ogilvy, TV’s Return of the Saint) they’ve secured in what looks like an electric chair, the couple has devised a scientific system offering “complete abandonment with no thought of remorse … intoxication with no hangover, ecstasy with no consequence.” (To the viewer, this means a sequence of […]
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Maximum Conviction
The two Steves — one formerly stone cold, the other once hard to kill — star as tough-talkin’ former black-ops partners at a “high-risk extraction” prison that’s so “dark military,” the local police don’t even know the place exists. Therefore, the fuzz won’t be any help when rogue military man Michael Paré (The Lincoln Lawyer) […]
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Michael / Silver Tongues
Michael is no comedy, however, and refers to a balding, chubby, nerdy outcast who keeps a 10-year-old captive in his basement. Michael is more than a mere kidnapper: He’s a pedophile. The subject matter alone will keep many from giving the German-language film a try, but his most devilish acts of evil thankfully go unseen. […]
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Rampart
As one character states boldly to his face, “You’re a classic racist. A bigot. A sexist. A womanizer. A chauvinist. A misanthrope. Homophobic, clearly, or maybe you just don’t like yourself.” Mind you, this is just from his daughter, so imagine what those with no emotional investment to cop David Brown would think. Or just […]
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Cuban crisis
Of the 29 shots that comprise Oklahoma City Museum of Art’s new exhibition of photography by the internationally renowned Michael Eastman, visitors will notice two things: 1. They are stunning. 2. They are stunning. That’s because the photos are both beautiful and big — 7 and half feet tall, to be exact, said Alison Amick, […]
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Captain America
As you know by now, it didn’t. If you managed not to catch it in its long-delayed VHS debut in 1993, the MGM Limited Edition Collection finally has issued the thing on DVD to tag along to interest on this summer’s big-budget, blockbuster “Captain America: The First Avenger.” Why didn’t it come out before now? […]
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Information or Islamophobia?
Michael Hoehn, an attorney and executive director of the Washington D.C.-based Alliance for Vigilance, spoke last week at several Oklahoma City and Edmond venues, such as the Oklahoma Conservative Political Action Committee and the High Noon Club. Hoehn spoke to the groups about a wide range of threats from Islam, including terrorist attacks, the implementation […]