Oklahoma City Museum of Art hosts its Oscar Tune-Up series, including everything from action to comedy.
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CFN Quote of the Week
Chenoweth: “We have a little rivalry between us. You know, I’m from Oklahoma and you are—” Zellweger: “That’s right, I’m from Texas.” Chenoweth: “And … we kick your ass in football.”
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CFN Quote of the Week
Chenoweth: “We have a little rivalry between us. You know, I’m from Oklahoma and you are—” Zellweger: “That’s right, I’m from Texas.” Chenoweth: “And … we kick your ass in football.”
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Amour
In other words, the guy is definitely not the lovey-dovey type. But that unblinking, cold-blooded aesthetic is largely what makes Amour, which opens Friday at AMC Quail Springs Mall 24, so remarkable. In its depiction of an elderly Parisian couple coming to terms with illness and looming death, the film is almost brutal in its […]
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A Cat in Paris
Dino, the tabby at the center of “A Cat in Paris,” brings new meaning to the term “cat burglar.” He purrs his way between a petty thief on the job and a little girl at home, befriending both and inadvertently tying their disparate worlds. That occurs after the two-bit bandit gives Dino a fenced, fish-shaped […]
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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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Elite Squad: The Enemy Within
It should have. Had I seen it before now, it handily would have made my list of 2011’s top 10 films. It matters not that “Elite Squad: The Enemy Within” is a sequel to a 2007 film I’m not certain I knew existed; director/co-writer José Padilha’s work is powerful and extraordinary on its own. The […]
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Brief encounters
ANIMATED “A Morning Stroll” It sounds like the setup to a simple joke: Why did the chicken knock on the apartment door? This clever ditty answers it thrice, each with animation appropriate to the 1959, 2009 and 2059 time periods it depicts. Thus, we move from simple line drawings to today’s CGI, and ending with […]