Recently released digitally and on demand, Ghost Team One is a spirited spoof. BY ROD LOTT With this Halloween season being the first without a new chapter in the Paranormal Activity series, perhaps a Paranormal Activity spoof is the next best thing. There’s no shortage of them, but of the roughly half-dozen I’ve seen, Ghost […]
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NEWS OF THE WEIRD
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; line-height:normal;mso-outline-level:1″><span style=" Times New Roman”,”serif”;mso-fareast-Times New Roman”; mso-font-kerning:18.0pt;mso-fareast-language:ES-BO”> Updates — The family of the great Native American Olympic athlete and Oklahoma native Jim Thorpe (1888- 1953) was so disappointed that the then-governor of Oklahoma would not properly honor Thorpe on his death that one faction of his family moved the body to […]
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Ghost Team One
The film opens Friday in select theaters, as well as digitally and on demand. Using a cameraman hired through Craigslist, two best buds — virginal Sergio (Carlos Santos) and horn-dog chucklehead Brad (J.R. Villarreal, Akeelah and the Bee) — attempt to capture footage of the ghost they believe haunts the home they share. The specter, glimpsed as an Asian female, […]
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You get Mom, I’ll take Dad
BY DEAN ROBBINS Multi-camera, laugh-track sitcoms have been in decline, but The Millers is one that works (7:30 p.m. Thursday, CBS). Nate (Will Arnett) and Debbie (Jayma Mays) have always kept their distance from their insufferable parents (Beau Bridges, Margo Martindale), but that becomes impossible when Mom and Dad break up. She moves in with […]
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Rush
Instead, it’s a rather drab biopic about 1970s-era Formula One jerks that compete against each other in a high-speed pissing contest that totally leaves the audience out of the argument. In capable hands, this might have been an exciting, daring look inside this world, with the competitive nature of the drivers giving the viewer an […]
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Frankenstein’s Army
(2013) So towering is the legend of Frankenstein, one found-footage film just isn’t enough. This spring saw the release of The Frankenstein Theory, and now we have the weirder, wilder, wonderfully imaginative Frankenstein’s Army. Near the end of WWII, a cameraman chronicles the mission of a Russian military unit under Stalin’s order. The men and […]
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Keeping order
This is the home of the Sekhet Bast Ra Oasis, the local chapter of the Ordo Templi Orientis religious fraternal order. Not familiar with the OTO? You’re not alone. While its heyday was the 1910s, the order’s Oklahoma City chapter—called an “Oasis”—has been around since 1984. The chapter’s administrator — or “body master” — said […]
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My name is ____
Cosmostanza “We didn’t know what to call our band. We had a few ideas — although nothing was really sticking — but we both had a common love for Seinfeld. Then it hit me, and I envisioned George Costanza’s head in space. The name came from there, Cosmostanza. I called Raney (Aboud, bandmate) on the […]
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LIFE
Of all the things one can accomplish in 48 hours, writing, directing and filming a movie isn’t the first that comes to mind. But the 48 Hour Film Project — which provided local filmmakers with a character, a prop, a line of dialogue and a genre — required its participants to do just that. The […]
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LIFE
Of all the things one can accomplish in 48 hours, writing, directing and filming a movie isn’t the first that comes to mind. But the 48 Hour Film Project — which provided local filmmakers with a character, a prop, a line of dialogue and a genre — required its participants to do just that. The […]