In li’l ol’ Siskiyou County, Calif., Bigfoot has been sighted 913 times in the last 25 years — so states the opening crawl of this found-footage film. Although the sought target is different, Bigfoot County copies The Blair Witch Project story template to a near T, what with sticks, tent rattling, heavy breathing at night […]
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Argo
There’s no way the movie industry could have resisted this stranger-than-fiction yarn. The film chronicles how CIA operative Tony Mendez (Affleck) saved the six by establishing a phony cover story that they were a Canadian movie crew scouting locations in Tehran for a science-fiction cheapie titled Argo. Details of that real-life mission would not be […]
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A Necessary Death
After 22 minutes of auditioning and logistics, Toma and team get down to business with their chosen “star,” Matt, a young British man who would prefer to kill himself before the fatal brain tumor he has reaches the unavoidable stage of unbearable pain. We watch as Toma films Matt talking to the camera about his […]
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Buy low
“This is an unprecedented economic crisis, but it is spawning an unprecedented opportunity,” said Rand. “Real estate prices are at their lowest ebb in years, but anyone with a sense of history in the real estate market knows that those prices will rise as the economy improves and the people who got burned in the […]
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Campaign contributions
Campaign for Real Music featuring Crown Imperial, The Wurly Birds, Copperheads, Ryan Lawson, Plaid Rabbit, Dadrock, Psychotic Reaction and more 4 p.m. Friday-Saturday Opolis 113 N. Crawford, Norman www.opolis.org 820-0951 A diverse assortment of local bands will rally together Friday and Saturday at the seventh annual Campaign for Real Music at Opolis in Norman. Twenty […]