Comedy
Phil Bacharach
Here are a few tips for aspiring moviemakers: If you want to mock the clichés of romantic comedy, try not to fall prey to them yourself.

OKG7 things to do
Gazette staff
It’ll be easy to get a taste of The Big Easy when the legendary Preservation Hall Jazz Band plays at 3 p.m. Sunday at Oklahoma City University’s Bass School of Music, 2501 N. Blackwelder. Dubbed “the past and promise of American music” by Rolling Stone magazine, the act is on its 50th-anniversary tour. Tickets are $10. Call 208-5227 or visit okcu.edu/tickets.

Sunday

Pop
Joshua Boydston
As clichéd as it is easy, it is nice to stop and smell the roses once in a while. Nocturne is the aural equivalent.

OKG7 things to do
Gazette staff
If you think A-B-C is as easy as 1-2-3, you’d best “Beat It” to the Civic Center Music Hall, 201 N. Walker, for The Music of Michael Jackson. At 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, the revue paying tribute to the late King of Pop promises to “Rock with You,” as James Delisco performs hits from MJ’s entire career. Tickets are $25-$52. Call 842-5387 or visit okcphilharmonic.org.

Friday-Saturday

Thriller
Rod Lott
It’s not difficult to see what Martin Scorsese saw in Easy Money to lend his name to it as presenter to American audiences: a lot of himself. The 2010 Swedish film is a crime epic cast in the mold of Goodfellas or Casino, yet still its own thing. A smash as Snabba Cash in its native land, where it’s already spawned two sequels, the movie now arrives on DVD.

Nonfiction
Rod Lott
When Tom Folsom terms his new nonfiction work, Hopper, as “a rebel biography,” he’s not kidding. Not only is his subject a rebel, but so is his approach. A you-are-there POV, fonts that interrupt the narrative — you’ve never read a celebrity bio quite like it, and that’s certainly befitting of its star.