Movie review: ‘Monte Carlo’ a bland adventure with teen jet setters
July 01, 2011
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BFI Screen Guides are treasures for cinema list lovers
June 30, 2011
Most movie fans are familiar with the American Film Institute’s Top 100 lists. In the last decade, the award-winning AFI series has designated top 100 entries in numerous cinema categories (from best movies to best laughs, quotes, stars, songs, heroes and villains and so on).
Such lists are always highly... Read More
June 30, 2011
Most movie fans are familiar with the American Film Institute’s Top 100 lists. In the last decade, the award-winning AFI series has designated top 100 entries in numerous cinema categories (from best movies to best laughs, quotes, stars, songs, heroes and villains and so on).
Such lists are always highly... Read More
Under the Radar DVD of the Week: 'SK8 Life'
June 27, 2011
This week, the oddest DVD to appear on release lists is:
“SK8 Life”
The arcane skateboarding underground of Vancouver, Canada, gets a radical, cinema verite treatment in the 2006 Sundance Film Festival favorite “SK8 Life,” due out on DVD Tuesday.
A Canadian spin on the culture-defining fictional... Read More
June 27, 2011
This week, the oddest DVD to appear on release lists is:
“SK8 Life”
The arcane skateboarding underground of Vancouver, Canada, gets a radical, cinema verite treatment in the 2006 Sundance Film Festival favorite “SK8 Life,” due out on DVD Tuesday.
A Canadian spin on the culture-defining fictional... Read More
DVD review: ‘Public Speaking’
June 24, 2011
For a writer with the self-described affliction of “writer’s blockade,” the acerbic and opinionated Fran Lebowitz still has much to say. But whether she’s occasionally scribbling her thoughts in classic humorous essays collected in two still-vital volumes – 1978’s “Metropolitan Life” and 1981’s... Read More
June 24, 2011
For a writer with the self-described affliction of “writer’s blockade,” the acerbic and opinionated Fran Lebowitz still has much to say. But whether she’s occasionally scribbling her thoughts in classic humorous essays collected in two still-vital volumes – 1978’s “Metropolitan Life” and 1981’s... Read More
DVD review: ‘Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story’
June 24, 2011
Director, producer, writer and sometime actor William Castle has often been labeled a “schlockmeister” for the renegade, low-budget quality of his pictures. But to a generation of horror fans and restless teens who embraced his movies and turned them into cult hits, he was undoubtedly a showman extraordinaire.... Read More
June 24, 2011
Director, producer, writer and sometime actor William Castle has often been labeled a “schlockmeister” for the renegade, low-budget quality of his pictures. But to a generation of horror fans and restless teens who embraced his movies and turned them into cult hits, he was undoubtedly a showman extraordinaire.... Read More
Under the Radar DVD of the Week: 'Black Rat'
June 20, 2011
This week, the oddest DVD to appear on release lists is:
“Black Rat”
In the creepy realm of underground, hipster horror movies, a director can never be too young, too exotic, too twisted or too well connected to become a cult star. Witness the hot Japanese horror filmmaker Kenta Fukasaku and his latest... Read More
June 20, 2011
This week, the oddest DVD to appear on release lists is:
“Black Rat”
In the creepy realm of underground, hipster horror movies, a director can never be too young, too exotic, too twisted or too well connected to become a cult star. Witness the hot Japanese horror filmmaker Kenta Fukasaku and his latest... Read More
Movie review: ‘Mr. Popper’s Penguins’ a cute, cool summer escape
June 17, 2011
One of Jim Carrey’s best qualities as a movie actor is his ability to be kid-friendly and deeply subversive at the same time. It’s a quality he brings in spades to “Mr. Popper’s Penguins,” a serviceable updating of Richard and Florence Atwater’s 1938 children’s book that attempts the tricky... Read More
June 17, 2011
One of Jim Carrey’s best qualities as a movie actor is his ability to be kid-friendly and deeply subversive at the same time. It’s a quality he brings in spades to “Mr. Popper’s Penguins,” a serviceable updating of Richard and Florence Atwater’s 1938 children’s book that attempts the tricky... Read More
DVD review: 'Rawhide' The Fourth Season, Volume 1
June 16, 2011
Before there was Joe Kidd or Josey Wales, even before there was a Man with No Name, there was Rowdy Yates.
The young trail herd ramrod on the CBS Western series “Rawhide” was the character through which Clint Eastwood made his first big impression on a national audience. The lanky, sandy-haired, easygoing... Read More
June 16, 2011
Before there was Joe Kidd or Josey Wales, even before there was a Man with No Name, there was Rowdy Yates.
The young trail herd ramrod on the CBS Western series “Rawhide” was the character through which Clint Eastwood made his first big impression on a national audience. The lanky, sandy-haired, easygoing... Read More
Film Forum revives ‘greatest 3D film’ in Hitchcock’s ‘Dial M for Murder’
June 15, 2011
NEW YORK – While 3D movies are having a rocky summer among moviegoers grown weary of a gimmick that’s become grossly overexploited, New York’s astute Film Forum is smartly mustering its unique technology to present an exclusive weeklong run of what many film buffs consider the best 3D movie of all time –... Read More
June 15, 2011
NEW YORK – While 3D movies are having a rocky summer among moviegoers grown weary of a gimmick that’s become grossly overexploited, New York’s astute Film Forum is smartly mustering its unique technology to present an exclusive weeklong run of what many film buffs consider the best 3D movie of all time –... Read More
Under the Radar DVD of the Week: 'Man V Food: Season 3'
June 13, 2011
This week, the oddest DVD to appear on release lists is:
“Man V Food: Season 3”
The Travel Channel series “Man V Food” prides itself on being a manly, no-nonsense quest to find the best chow in America, and in its wandering third season – due out on DVD Tuesday – it devoted one episode to profiling... Read More
June 13, 2011
This week, the oddest DVD to appear on release lists is:
“Man V Food: Season 3”
The Travel Channel series “Man V Food” prides itself on being a manly, no-nonsense quest to find the best chow in America, and in its wandering third season – due out on DVD Tuesday – it devoted one episode to profiling... Read More
‘Forgotten Horrors Vol. 5’ highlights good, bad and just plain weird
June 12, 2011
Michael H. Price is one of those invaluable characters that thrive in the rarefied fringes of the film fan world. The Fort Worth author is a respected movie critic and film festival programmer, an opinionated raconteur, a genuinely intellectual film wonk and a colorful connoisseur of B-grade horror, science fiction... Read More
June 12, 2011
Michael H. Price is one of those invaluable characters that thrive in the rarefied fringes of the film fan world. The Fort Worth author is a respected movie critic and film festival programmer, an opinionated raconteur, a genuinely intellectual film wonk and a colorful connoisseur of B-grade horror, science fiction... Read More
Spielberg, Abrams make 'Super 8' fun, actor says
June 10, 2011
BY GENE TRIPLETT
There were certain advantages to being a kid on the set of “Super 8.”
For one thing, Ryan Lee, 14, found it easy to interact with the film’s storied producer, Steven Spielberg, and writer-director J.J. Abrams, who’s helmed such megahits as “Mission:
Impossible III” and... Read More
June 10, 2011
BY GENE TRIPLETT
There were certain advantages to being a kid on the set of “Super 8.”
For one thing, Ryan Lee, 14, found it easy to interact with the film’s storied producer, Steven Spielberg, and writer-director J.J. Abrams, who’s helmed such megahits as “Mission:
Impossible III” and... Read More
‘Super 8' has that familiar Spielberg style
June 10, 2011
To those who’ve experienced the more kid-friendly sci-fi fantasies that bear Steven Spielberg’s name, “Super 8” will seem like all too familiar narrative terrain. The formula calls for a bunch of troubled, under-supervised kids who are free to roam the streets at all hours, and the varied ways that they... Read More
June 10, 2011
To those who’ve experienced the more kid-friendly sci-fi fantasies that bear Steven Spielberg’s name, “Super 8” will seem like all too familiar narrative terrain. The formula calls for a bunch of troubled, under-supervised kids who are free to roam the streets at all hours, and the varied ways that they... Read More
DVD review: ‘Moguls & Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood’
June 09, 2011
Constructing a comprehensive documentary history of Hollywood – from the larger-than-life moguls who molded the movie industry into a culture-changing force to the film stars who became its glamorous, extravagant public personification – is a daunting, if not impossible, task.
But if any organizations are... Read More
June 09, 2011
Constructing a comprehensive documentary history of Hollywood – from the larger-than-life moguls who molded the movie industry into a culture-changing force to the film stars who became its glamorous, extravagant public personification – is a daunting, if not impossible, task.
But if any organizations are... Read More
DVD review: 'The Twilight Zone' Season 4 (Blu-ray)
June 06, 2011
The fourth season of television’s most imaginative anthology series would open with a new voice-over introduction from creator Rod Serling: “You unlock this door with the key of imagination. Beyond it is another dimension: a dimension of sound, a dimension of sight, a dimension of mind. You’re moving into a... Read More
June 06, 2011
The fourth season of television’s most imaginative anthology series would open with a new voice-over introduction from creator Rod Serling: “You unlock this door with the key of imagination. Beyond it is another dimension: a dimension of sound, a dimension of sight, a dimension of mind. You’re moving into a... Read More
Under the Radar DVD of the Week: 'The Gene Autry Show: The Complete First Season'
June 05, 2011
This week, the most interesting DVD to appear on release lists is:
“The Gene Autry Show: The Complete First Season”
Gene Autry, one-time Oklahoma railroad telegrapher and big-screen singing cowboy, had already conquered Hollywood and was well on his way to becoming a billionaire business tycoon when he set... Read More
June 05, 2011
This week, the most interesting DVD to appear on release lists is:
“The Gene Autry Show: The Complete First Season”
Gene Autry, one-time Oklahoma railroad telegrapher and big-screen singing cowboy, had already conquered Hollywood and was well on his way to becoming a billionaire business tycoon when he set... Read More
Movie review: ‘X-Men: First Class’ puts Marvel franchise back on track
June 03, 2011
After growing a bit shopworn and predictable in recent big-screen outings, a lucrative Marvel Comics franchise gets a smart, energetic reboot in “X-Men: First Class,” which scores far more strongly as an origin story than did the disappointing 2009 prequel “X-Men Origins: Wolverine.”
Technically the fifth... Read More
June 03, 2011
After growing a bit shopworn and predictable in recent big-screen outings, a lucrative Marvel Comics franchise gets a smart, energetic reboot in “X-Men: First Class,” which scores far more strongly as an origin story than did the disappointing 2009 prequel “X-Men Origins: Wolverine.”
Technically the fifth... Read More
Robert Redford bio shows us golden boy with a common touch
June 01, 2011
It seems an odd compliment to call the highly anticipated biography of actor, director, producer and philanthropist Robert Redford comprehensive but not particularly revealing.
But that seems to be the case with author Michael Feeney Callan’s “Robert Redford: The Biography” (Knopf, $28.95), a jam-packed... Read More
June 01, 2011
It seems an odd compliment to call the highly anticipated biography of actor, director, producer and philanthropist Robert Redford comprehensive but not particularly revealing.
But that seems to be the case with author Michael Feeney Callan’s “Robert Redford: The Biography” (Knopf, $28.95), a jam-packed... Read More
Under the Radar DVD of the Week: 'Worlds Bizarre'
May 31, 2011
This week, the oddest DVD to appear on release lists is:
“Worlds Bizarre”
Now that we’ve recently avoided the predicted end of the world, it might be a good time to reflect on the essential strangeness of life here on earth in the new DVD “Worlds Bizarre,” due out on Tuesday.
This four-disc... Read More
May 31, 2011
This week, the oddest DVD to appear on release lists is:
“Worlds Bizarre”
Now that we’ve recently avoided the predicted end of the world, it might be a good time to reflect on the essential strangeness of life here on earth in the new DVD “Worlds Bizarre,” due out on Tuesday.
This four-disc... Read More
Depp’s Captain Jack Sparrow Not the Only Weird Movie Pirate
May 30, 2011
BY DENNIS KING
Johnny Depp’s swaggering, royally daft Captain Jack Sparrow of the “Pirates of the Caribbean” voyages is certainly a quirky and theatrical scoundrel. But no one can accuse his many big-screen pirate predecessors of being shrinking violets either, and a rogue’s gallery of famous movie... Read More
May 30, 2011
BY DENNIS KING
Johnny Depp’s swaggering, royally daft Captain Jack Sparrow of the “Pirates of the Caribbean” voyages is certainly a quirky and theatrical scoundrel. But no one can accuse his many big-screen pirate predecessors of being shrinking violets either, and a rogue’s gallery of famous movie... Read More
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Dennis King
Movie Critic
King spent 31 years as an ink-stained wretch working for newspapers in Seminole, Ada, Oklahoma City and Tulsa. He holds a B.A. degree in English from the University of Central Oklahoma and for 16 years served as an adjunct instructor in journalism and English at Tulsa Community College. For 20 years, he was full-time film critic at the Tulsa World.
In 2006, he left Tulsa and along with his wife, Suzan (a retired English professor), moved to a cabin in Dingmans Ferry, PA. There, along the banks for the Delaware River, he chased after two rambunctious Labrador retrievers, fly fished the waters of the Poconos and did his best to become a full-time trout bum. Still scratching a writer’s itch, he freelanced articles for Explorer magazine and Gray’s Sporting Journal and wrote a stage play about classic movies and old movie theaters, titled “Spirits of the Coronado” (after his long-gone boyhood theater at 39th Street and MacArthur Boulevard).
In December, he and Suzan moved into an apartment in upper Manhattan, where they plan to eat bagels for breakfast and street-cart hot dogs for lunch, haunt the Angelika Theater and the Film Forum, go to plays and museums, ride the subways, complain about the subways and generally live like true New Yorkers.
In 2006, he left Tulsa and along with his wife, Suzan (a retired English professor), moved to a cabin in Dingmans Ferry, PA. There, along the banks for the Delaware River, he chased after two rambunctious Labrador retrievers, fly fished the waters of the Poconos and did his best to become a full-time trout bum. Still scratching a writer’s itch, he freelanced articles for Explorer magazine and Gray’s Sporting Journal and wrote a stage play about classic movies and old movie theaters, titled “Spirits of the Coronado” (after his long-gone boyhood theater at 39th Street and MacArthur Boulevard).
In December, he and Suzan moved into an apartment in upper Manhattan, where they plan to eat bagels for breakfast and street-cart hot dogs for lunch, haunt the Angelika Theater and the Film Forum, go to plays and museums, ride the subways, complain about the subways and generally live like true New Yorkers.
Gene Triplett
Entertainment Editor
Gene Triplett is another Oklahoma newspaper dinosaur who's been cranking out copy for 34 years, first at the upstart, long defunct Oklahoma Journal, covering just about every news beat imaginable, then at The Oklahoman, where's he's bounced back and forth from features to the news side as assistant city editor, city editor and entertainment editor, managing to hold down the latter position for more than 10 years. He holds a B.A. degree in journalism -- also from the University of Central Oklahoma -- and, also like his colleague King, chases after two loony Labrador retrievers. He does not live by a trout-filled river, but he and his wife Carol do own a swimming pool, much to the delight of their dogs.
The Tripletts enjoy gourmet outdoor cooking year-round (rain, sleet or snow), entertaining friends, road trips to scenic wooded parks that rent rustic lakeside cabins, listening to music, watching classic movies and, in the summertime, swimming with their dogs.
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