Confession: I love me some Dolph Lundgren movies. While it was nice seeing him back on the big screen in this summer’s “The Expendables,” I remember a period in the late 1980s and early 1990s when he was a go-to presence for reliable trash that I still enjoy today “? and free of irony “? […]
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The Psycho Legacy
<iframe src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=oklahgazet-20&o=1&p=8&l=as1&asins=B003THSXKU&fc1=000000&IS2=1 Even people who’ve never seen Alfred Hitchcock’s “Psycho” know quite a bit about Alfred Hitchcock’s “Psycho.” It’s a bona fide classic, both in horror and film in general. On the downside, its pop-culture power is so potent that we forgot how revolutionary it truly was. Spending an hour and a half watching “The […]
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Night of the Demons
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Human Target: The Complete First Season
Leaping from comics to cathode tubes, “Human Target” fills the void in the networks’ collective prime-time schedules: a kick-ass action/adventure series. To be honest, I thought the same of 2007’s “Bionic Woman” reboot, but that couldn’t survive past a single season. This one already has “? plus, it need not dabble in sci-fi trappings or […]
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The Exorcist: Extended Director’s Cut & Original Theatrical Edition
<iframe marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" style="width: 120px; height: 240px;" src="http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=oklahgazet-20&o=1&p=8&l=as1&asins=B001992NW4&fc1=000000&IS2=1 After years of seeing it on VHS, I’ve had the pleasure of seeing the 1974 classic “The Exorcist” on the big screen twice: once in 2000, and again in the last month. Both times marked a pleasurable, memorable theatrical experience, not only because I discover something new […]
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Video Games Live: Level 2
I’m not someone for whom the themes from Nintendo’s “Mario” franchise can elicit tingles of joy, or even tears of nostalgia. Heck, I doubt I could name that tune in all its notes. My heart lies in the heyday of the Atari 2600, but even I can appreciate the camp charm of the concert spectacular […]
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Fringe: The Complete Second Season
No two ways about it: “Fringe” sure knows how to open an episode. Among the choice prologues in its second season are a suburban man turning into a crumbling pile of ash before his loving wife’s eyes; a dead girl waking up on the table spouting a string of random numbers, while doctors remove her […]
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Four Boxes
Purposely and effectively lo-fi, “Four Boxes” is one of the most clever thrillers you’re apt to see this year. And do see it “? make the effort to seek this theater-skipper out. Trevor (Justin Kirk) and Rob (Sam Rosen) are estate liquidators who sell the goods of the recently departed on eBay. It’s a meager […]
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The Rig
Remember the frustration you and the rest of America felt this summer when BP was unable to plug its Deepwater Horizon rig in the Gulf of Mexico? Viewers will feel equally as restless at the sci-fi thriller “The Rig.” Too soon? More like too late, as “The Rig” is yet another copy of the 1979 […]
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Shoot the Hero!
Going out on a limb, I’d guess “Shoot the Hero!” writer/director/producer Christian Sesma has seen “Smokin’ Aces” a dozen times. Maybe more. Not to slight Joe Carnahan’s action-comedy, as I like it, too. But I’d leave the Carnahan to Carnahan. This way-low-budget effort to ape those overblown, over-the-top theatrics plays as leaden as all the […]