Reviewer’s grade: C George Clooney takes his third spin around the block as DannyOcean, a rich, well-connected, ever-smirking heist-meister and con man who revels in seemingly impossible challenges. With the help of his pals Rusty Ryan (Brad Pitt), Linus Caldwell (Matt Damon), Basher Tarr (an underused Don Cheadle), Saul Bloom (Carl Reiner), Frank Catton […]
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Weird Japan
Sachio Kawabata, 61, was awarded the equivalent of about $5,000 by a court in Kagoshima in January because the police abused him during interrogation over possible violations of election law. The judge found that Kawabata suffered “great mental anguish” when police wrote his family name and derogatory messages on pieces of paper and forced Kawabata […]
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Sexual politics drive Pollard’s production of ‘Man for All Seasons’
Before King Henry VIII became a porcine version of his younger self, he was a frisky womanizer who tailored his belief system to suit his own purposes. In the early 16th century, his concerns were twofold: to marry his latest mistress, Anne Boleyn, and to produce male heirs to the throne. The problem was that […]
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Zoo seeks junior curators
Lions and tigers and bears ” heck, yeah! The Oklahoma City Zoo is looking for teens who want to work closely with animal friends in the “Junior Curator” program. The program, which lasts around a year beginning in September, takes teens 14-18 years old and places them side by side by with members of the […]
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Primeval
slow-motion. Gustave’s attacks “? the only reason people watch these kind of things in the first place “? are too obviously fake and outright laughable, on the scale (or is that scales?) of “Anaconda.” That this is supposedly based on a true story makes me feel sorry for real life. When you hit this […]
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52: Volume One
DC Comics Aiming for the real-time concept of television’s “24,” DC Comics embarked on a yearlong project titled “52” in 2006 “? with each weekly issue representing seven days in an epic story about a year on Earth without Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman. With the series now complete, those who’d rather experience it in […]
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Latest Religious Messages
While the California Assembly debated an open-hand-only spanking bill for parents this spring, the Bethel Baptist Church in El Sobrante continued to demand that spanking by flexible rod is the only punishment acceptable to God and that will produce wisdom in the child. No sturdier weapon may be used, nor the open or closed hand, […]
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Toby Keith: Big Dog Daddy
Show Dog If you are heading to the lake this weekend and your plan includes having a good time, partying and not thinking too much, then Toby Keith’s new album “Big Dog Daddy” could be the sound track to a beer-soaked boat-nanza. Oklahoma native Keith isn’t breaking new ground with this one, but […]
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Garbage – Absolute Garbage
Geffen You can’t sum up popular Nineties music any better than with Scottish/American alt-rockers Garbage. A new compilation album, set to be released on July 17, features the “best of” Garbage, as well as a bonus disc of remixes. All of the band’s major hits’ “Stupid Girl,” “Only Happy When It Rains,” […]
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Hostel: Part II
Reviewer’s grade: B+ Some people tell us that meat is murder, but in Eli Roth’s “Hostel: Part II,” meat is also torture and humiliation. And people are the meat. Roth returns to the torture garden in Slovakia, where rich degenerates pay huge sums of money to torment, mutilate and ultimately kill kidnapped young adults. Americans […]