Therefore, you’re forgiven if you’d think “Falco,” about the Austrian singer best-known for the ’80s smash “Rock Me Amadeus,” was a put-on. It’s not. And it’s also not half-bad. After a lonely, miserable childhood in which his mom calls his cheating dad “Dr. Manwhore,” Hans Hölzel (Manuel Rubey) grows up to be a musician in the […]
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Barney’s Version
Playing 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday as part of the Oklahoma City Museum of Art’s “New Jewish Cinema” program, it’s a Canadian film based on Mordecai Richler’s 1997 novel, detailing the entire adulthood of Barney Panofsky (Giamatti, “Win Win”), who, despite being wildly successful as a soap-opera producer, fails spectacularly in his personal life. It […]
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Nice aim
When friends Brent Green and Jeff Goldberg were looking to kick-start their careers, they wanted to do something that would have a positive impact. In 2009, they started Toy Gun Films, a nonprofit production company based in Oklahoma City and Los Angeles, aimed at producing films that tell stories of moral courage and overcoming social […]
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Sexing up the spectrum
The members of Colourmusic think about sex a lot. They wrote their entire new album, “My _____ Is Pink,” about it. But wait! It’s not what it sounds like, the Stillwater/England four-piece is quick to point out. “Sexuality is one of the most important elements of music to affect people. We wanted to explore that […]
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Covert Affairs: Season One
What it’s not, however, judging from its first season, is appointment television. It might be if it started anyone other than Piper Perabo. As mid-20s CIA newbie Annie Walker, she’s fine in the role, but ever since Hollywood tried to shove her down our throats in 2000 with the execrable “Coyote Ugly,” she’s never clicked […]
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The Other Woman
I found it odd the song fades right after the lyric, “everyone you know someday will die,” yet we soon learn it’s rather fitting; despite a title that screams “erotic thriller,” the film actually is about a mother grieving over the loss of her child. Making a miserable situation worse is that the woman, Emilia […]
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I Saw the Devil
Although “Devil” opens with a snow-filled scene shown in the South Korean film’s trailer, viewers’ nerves are on alert nonetheless from frame one as we await the stunningly inevitable: the murder of a pregnant woman stranded on the roadside by the serial killer Kyung-chul (Min-sik Choi, “Oldboy”). The madman may have picked wisely out of […]
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Get Yourself a College Girl
It’s new to the MOD DVD circuit from Warner Archive. It has cartoony credits, rock ‘n’ roll hits, super-cute women, a go-go club setting and almost no story. With those first four, however, it doesn’t need much of one. So why does “Girl” have such sour ratings and reviews? In other words, what do people […]
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Megan Is Missing
Wait, I take that back. It’s the “Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2” of Internet predator movies — in other words, a complete creative failure. David Schwimmer recently tread these waters to far greater effect, but still emerging only semi-successful, with the melodrama “Trust.” Here, the only thing writer/director Michael Goi achieves is making Megan […]
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Cop Hater
Now on DVD as part of MGM’s Limited Edition Collection, “Cop Hater” is based on the first novel in Ed McBain’s long-running “87th Precinct” series, released one year prior. One wishes it had kicked off a franchise, but subsequent films were only loosely related and sporadic (only on TV have the characters achieved any semblance […]