Underwood, born and raised in Checotah, is the new crooner on Sundays for NBC’s NFL football. You know the tune. The catchy bit just before the muscled-up men hit the field. Ball tune notables include legend Hank Williams Jr., who sang the Monday Night Football theme song for years. Also, Pink tried her vocals for […]
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Movie Night at the Downtown Library, enjoy a film at the downtown library, 6-8 p.m., Sept. 4, 11. Downtown Library, 300 Park, 231-8650, metrolibrary.org. WED, WED Marriage Italian Style, (Italy, 1964, dir. Vittorio De Sica) a businessman in Naples is tricked into marrying his prostitute/lover of 22 years, 7:30 p.m., Sept. 5. Oklahoma City Museum […]
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Having made a name for themselves in Fort Worth, Texas — first as a duo and now as a five-piece — blues rockers Foxtrot Uniform are all set for their Oklahoma debut, Friday at Blue Note Lounge, followed by Saturday at Grady’s 66 Pub. According to lead guitarist Kenny Uptain, the short trip north has […]
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Don’t let the bedbugs bite. But if they do, Night Beds’ soothing sounds should make you feel all better. By zach hale Night Beds with the staves and Musikanto 8 p.M. tuesDay OpOlis 113 n. craWfOrD, nOrMan OpOlis.OrG 820-0951 $12 It’s rare, but certain voices can convey a message through inflection and tone when words […]
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Nice Guys Don’t Work in Hollywood: The Adventures of an Aesthete in the Movie Business — Curtis Harrington
Unlike so many Tinseltown true tales, Nice Guys Don’t Work in Hollywood doesn’t begin with a tumultuous childhood. Although the only child grew up in the throes of the Great Depression, Harrington’s upbringing was happy. He found escape (and influence) in the stories of Edgar Allan Poe, the pages of Esquire magazine and the flicker […]
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Curandero: Dawn of the Demon
Certainly releasable, but only a goatee hair above watchable, the horror film is co-produced by Machete man Robert Rodriguez (no relation), who also wrote the original screenplay — “original” only in terms of it being rewritten, as there’s nothing new you haven’t seen 100 times before. To less adventurous viewers, I suppose the story’s being […]
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Sleepless Night
An opening cocaine heist turned bloody has authorities thinking “gangland killing,” but the man who’s really to blame is one of those investigating authorities: Vincent (Tomer Sisley, The Heir Apparent: Largo Winch), a Bad Lieutenant dealing with Far Worse Criminals. In retribution for having his bag of kilos swiped, nefarious club owner Marciano (Serge Riaboukine, […]
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Mimesis
Look, at least it’s not the new Night of the Living Dead 3D: Re-Animation, but that’s another review. There’s not much to Mimesis beyond the one-line summary above. Various attendees at a horror convention are invited to an exclusive, super-secret party that turns out to be the “game” — one in which they are stuck […]
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Elvira’s Movie Macabre: Mega Movie Marathon
Spanning nearly three decades of release, the movies included are Night of the Living Dead, I Eat Your Skin, The Satanic Rites of Dracula, The Werewolf of Washington, The Terror, Eegah!, Scared to Death, Tormented, The Brain That Wouldn’t Die, The Manster, Lady Frankenstein and Jesse James Meets Frankenstein’s Daughter. All reside in the public […]
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Silent Night / Silent Night, Deadly Night / Silent Night, Deadly Night Part II
In her third horror remake within as many years, Jaime King (My Bloody Valentine 3D, Mother’s Day) stars as Aubrey Bradimore, a crossword-loving sheriff’s deputy forced to work on Christmas Eve — in particular, the annual Santa parade. She lives in a dreary small town where nothing really happens, but she’s in luck: There’s a […]