(1968) What’s an old-school Hollywood legend like Burt Lancaster doing on a label like Grindhouse Releasing? After viewing The Swimmer, I still don’t know. As odd as the 1968 obscurity is, it’s still too classy to be caught dead in a grindhouse theater. What matters ultimately is that it’s on Bluray at all.At once allegorical […]
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Weed control
It’s the reunion many fans of comedy thought would never happen. After years of well-known animosity and creative differences, comedians Richard “Cheech” Marin and Tommy Chong — better known as the stoner duo Cheech & Chong — have picked up the peace pipe and are back out on the road, performing old favorites and new […]
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Slaid, Slaid songs
Roots rocker Slaid Cleaves’ influences are all of the usual suspects expected from someone of his songwriting ilk: Jimmie Rodgers, Johnny Cash and Bruce Springsteen. But it was a youthful listen to one of his father’s Hank Williams albums that set Cleaves on his songwriting path. “I listened to those lonesome, sad songs, and it […]
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‘Sex Machine’: Still chuggin’!
Illustration: Brad Gregg “As a film, this is a fat, greasy-spoon diner, not some big, fancy, five-star restaurant in New York City,” said Sharpe of his Frankenstein–meets-Memento story. “We had to cut a lot of corners because of the budget, but we knew we were making something cool.” But nearly a decade later, the $8,000 […]
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Young at art
Photo: Carl Shortt Oklahoma is filled with young, talented artists, yet many of them will never be recognized because they simply don’t know who to talk to or where to go to get their works displayed for the public. Since 2002, the Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition’s annual Momentum show has worked to remedy such circumstances. […]
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Paul Williams: Still Alive
Both documentaries deal with a musician wrongly presumed to be dead; the difference here is that the love comes straight from the director, Stephen Kessler (Vegas Vacation), whose impetus for the project is purely, deeply personal. With all the extra layers removed, I began to feel it, too; his adoration for his subject is infectious. […]
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Sticky situation
BY ROD LOTT I still don’t know why Hollywood felt that Spider-Man, all of 10 years young, needed to be remade — I suspect it has to do with selling toys. Enough of calling The Amazing Spider-Man a “reboot,” too; this is a remake through and through. Like director Sam Raimi’s 2002 original, this “new” […]
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Doobie Doobie do
Classic-rock legends The Doobie Brothers couldn’t have foreseen all the highs and lows when they formed four decades ago. The California-born group is responsible for some of the biggest hits of the ’70s, including “What a Fool Believes,” “Black Water,” “China Grove” and “Listen to the Music,” all while undergoing dramatic stylistic shifts and persistent […]
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Taking it to the house
TMZ reports that Kevin Durant recently put his 5,910 square-foot Seattle home for sale; asking price $2.7 million. In case you’re curious, the CFN math department informs us that that sale would fetch 29,463 pairs of Durant’s most recent basketball shoes, the Nike Zoom KD IV. CFN is of course elated to hear that KD […]
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‘Off’ still on
Broken ceiling tiles and spent beer bottles littered 66 Bowl after last year’s Okie Twist-Off served as the historic venue’s swan song. Fans lingered outside, cussing under their breath, wondering if they’d witnessed the end of an era. After all, the bowling alley that opened its doors in 1959 had been the perfect place for […]