Two brothers (Kavan Smith, TV’s “Eureka,” and Colby Johannson, “Final Destination 3”) who work in construction in the depressed small town of Redeemer, Idaho, see a downed Russian satellite crash into a nearby field. The object’s pieces are covered in some sort of green alien slime that looks like Silly String and moves like The […]
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Rise of the Planet of the Apes
And that would be a bad thing, because “Rise of the Planet of the Apes” hoses off any stink Burton left behind. It’s one of the year’s nicest surprises. An origin story to the sci-fi franchise that began on the big screen in 1968, “Rise” draws upon story elements of 1972’s “Conquest of the Planet […]
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Rise of the Planet of the Apes
And that would be a bad thing, because “Rise of the Planet of the Apes” hoses off any stink Burton left behind. It’s one of the year’s nicest surprises. An origin story to the sci-fi franchise that began on the big screen in 1968, “Rise” draws upon story elements of 1972’s “Conquest of the Planet […]
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Little Deaths
If such a thought makes you even the slightest bit uncomfortable, I can’t emphasize this enough: This movie is not for you. Its intent is to disturb, and succeeds. This sort of thing’s been done before, in virtually every episode of “The Hunger” TV series. But, hell, I love that show, so I was cool […]
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Little Deaths
If such a thought makes you even the slightest bit uncomfortable, I can’t emphasize this enough: This movie is not for you. Its intent is to disturb, and succeeds. This sort of thing’s been done before, in virtually every episode of “The Hunger” TV series. But, hell, I love that show, so I was cool […]
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Another Earth
Relative newcomer Brit Marling, who co-wrote and co-produced the picture, portrays Rhoda, an intelligent young woman with a scholarship to MIT and plans to become an astrophysicist. Those dreams disappear in an instant, however, when she causes a car accident that kills a woman and her small child. That wreck leaves a grieving husband and […]
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Another Earth
Relative newcomer Brit Marling, who co-wrote and co-produced the picture, portrays Rhoda, an intelligent young woman with a scholarship to MIT and plans to become an astrophysicist. Those dreams disappear in an instant, however, when she causes a car accident that kills a woman and her small child. That wreck leaves a grieving husband and […]
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Melancholia
If you want to watch a painting full of sad people and pretty images, controversial director Lars von Trier (“Antichrist”) has your film. Playing Thursday through Sunday at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art, “Melancholia” opens with a collection of frightfully slow-moving, albeit captivating images that highlight some of the film’s key events before the […]
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Melancholia
If you want to watch a painting full of sad people and pretty images, controversial director Lars von Trier (“Antichrist”) has your film. Playing Thursday through Sunday at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art, “Melancholia” opens with a collection of frightfully slow-moving, albeit captivating images that highlight some of the film’s key events before the […]
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Earth to ‘Earth’
The awkwardly titled “Jerome Bixby’s The Man from Earth” include characters who are an anthropologist, an archeologist, a biologist and a “Christian literalist,” so you’d expect the play to be a roiling battle of cosmological and ontological wit. You’d be wrong. Bixby wrote short stories and screenplays, mostly science fiction, including episodes of “Star Trek” […]