Broadcast premiers June 4 at Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center.
Mickey Reece
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Movie filmed at Northpark Mall debuts at Oklahoma Contemporary
Local filmmaker Mickey Reece premieres his new film, which follows a goth ex-prisoner around Northpark Mall.
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New film inspired by childhood imagination
In his lifetime, Mickey Reece has worked on dozens of films. But if you ask him, he’ll say that he only counts about five of them as “true” movies, and that includes his latest, Me and Ichikawa. Inspired by his young son, Julien Cash Reece, he wanted to tell a story that his son could […]
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Film review: T-Rex
32-year-old Newcastle native Mickey Reece has been astonishingly proliferative since he began directing in 2008, tackling a litany of genres with his stock company of actors.
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Knights of Malice
While “Knights of Malice” is not the best effort from local director Mickey Reece and his version of the Mercury Theatre players, it carries the most distinctive opening: that of the “Star Wars” crawl. Turns out, there’s a reason for the Jedi-rific reference, but I leave that for audiences to discover when the film debuts […]
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Statuesque
Rex Linn, actor (TV’s “CSI: Miami”) If they don’t give the Academy Award to [Best Actress nominee] Viola Davis for “The Help,” they should not give that award out. She was phenomenal. If any young actor asks me what’s the best thing they could see other than an acting class, I would tell them to […]
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From tusk till brawn
Somewhere on your Google machines, you can find a Top 10 list of the best arm-wrestling movies of all time. Perched at No. 4 is “Over the Top,” Sylvester Stallone’s 1987 flop opus about the sport. And the other nine spots are completely blank. I’d like to think that even if the chart weren’t a […]
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Hat trick
After delivering a one-two punch with “The Seducers Club” and “Stay Low” in the spring with City Arts Center, local filmmaker Mickey Reece returns with a third: “Punch Cowboy.” The feature debuts Saturday night, with The Workweek’s Carly Gwin performing beforehand as a musical guest. While Reece’s movies jump from genre to genre — sometimes […]