Last time, I reviewed the movies “Rio,” “Monte Carlo” and “Judy Moody and the Not Bummer Summer” so my dad didn’t have to, but this time, I’m reviewing the movies “Mr. Popper’s Penguins” and “The Smurfs.” I loved the movie “Mr. Popper’s Penguins,” and everything about it. It was a comedy that I definitely enjoyed. […]
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Night Train Murders
It’s not, but the comparison to Wes Craven’s 1972 debut is hardly unwarranted, because director Aldo Lado’s Italian film is practically a remake, right down to the lead ugly-mugged thug, but with an added mode of transportation. Heck, a poster in the disc’s advertising gallery even reveals an alternate title of “Last House — Part […]
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Wolf Head
Ryan “Staples” Scott just wanted to “do something funny, with guns.” “The image of a gun has so much more weight to it,” said the Yukon resident. “I wanted to create a plot to push that.” The end result is his directorial debut in feature filmmaking, “Wolf Head,” shot entirely in the Oklahoma City metro […]
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In the Land of Blood and Honey
Set in the mid-1990s against the backdrop of genocide in Bosnia- Herzegovina, it details random killing, rapes, the tossing of a baby from a balcony and the use of women as literal human shields. This is not for the faint of heart. Showing Friday through Sunday at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art, the film […]
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Queen of the Sun: What Are the Bees Telling Us?
But this is no peep show. Director/producer Taggart Siegel (“The Real Dirt on Farmer John”) has loftier goals in mind with this documentary on colony collapse disorder. That’s a fancy-sounding scientific phrase for the disappearance ’round the globe of worker bees. While the insectophobic among us may think that’s not that big a deal, “Queen […]
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Shut Up Little Man! An Audio Misadventure
See, Johnny Lee Sausage and Mitch Deprey had trouble sleeping because of the drunken arguments pouring through the paper-thin walls of the oil-and-water old men Ray and Pete, one of whom was gay, both of whom drank constantly, and neither of whom worked. Ray and Pete’s nightly exchanges included slurred shouts of “cocksucker” and “fuckin’ […]
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Cold Sweat
One drop of the stuff and your head resembles a watermelon dropped from a skyscraper. Certainly, this is among the most original concepts in modern horror, and indie director/co-writer Adrián Garcia Bogliano does not let the audience down. His pair of inglorious bastards — the mastermind having only one eye and requiring a walker — […]
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The Staircase
It’s that gripping — a miracle, considering the film is so long (six hours), it has to span two discs. On Dec. 9, 2001, Nortel executive Kathleen Peterson died at the bottom of a narrow stairwell in her North Carolina home, presumably from a fall. She was found by her novelist husband, Michael, who called […]
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Tucker and Dale vs Evil
Still, even with the trailer freshly consumed and digested, you shouldn’t miss the movie. Putting a spin on a staple of slasher films — if not all of cinema, post-“Deliverance” — rednecks Tucker (Alan Tudyk, “Dodgeball”) and Dale (Tyler Labine, “A Good Old Fashioned Orgy“) aren’t actually trying to kill, maim or otherwise harm the […]
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Carnage
That’s not to say “Carnage,” scheduled to open Friday at AMC Quail Springs Mall 24, 2501 W. Memorial, will split moviegoers’ sides. As befitting of a film spawned from a Tony-winning play about four bickering New Yorkers in one room, most of its wit operates on a cerebral level. Stemming from a disagreement between their […]