Fight this

OKG7 things to do
Gazette staff
Friday Night Fights are back at the Cox Convention Center, 1 Myriad Gardens. Eric “Danger” Fields, Ron “The Iceman” Aubrey and Noah Zuhdi return to the ring to duke it out.

Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Drink this

OKG7 things to do
Gazette staff
Helping fight HIV and AIDS in Africa has become so easy, you can do it just by sipping cocktails.

Wednesday, September 28, 2011

BKO: Bangkok Knockout

For nonstop action, Thai one on.

Action
Rod Lott
Bangkok, Oriental city. And the city don’t know what the city is getting. In the slick “BKO: Bangkok Knockout,” that’s a ruff-em’-tuff-em’ rumble involving a fight club named Fight Club getting to do what it does best: fight!

Friday, September 30, 2011

Walk it

OKG7 things to do
Gazette staff
Take a step — or many, really — to fight a disease that affects thousands of Oklahomans, with Oklahoma City’s third annual National Kidney Foundation walk. The walk begins at 10 a.m. Saturday, with check-in two hours prior, at Stars and Stripes Park at Lake Hefner. Call 401-1729 or visit donate.kidney.org.

Saturday

Wednesday, June 6, 2012

The Raid: Redemption

If there’s a better action film this year, ‘The Raid’ will kick its ass into nonexistence.

Action
Rod Lott
Fans of pure action cinema are apt to grow delirious with glee over The Raid: Redemption, an Indonesian crime thriller that relies so much upon the universal language of violence, one could enjoy it without subtitles.

Monday, August 6, 2012

A real sports animal

Love him or hate him, Jim Traber just wants you to have an opinion.

Sports
Andrew Gilman
Here’s what Jim Traber says about himself:

Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Karate-Robo Zaborgar

This one’s rightfully robo-cocked.

Comedy
Rod Lott
Japan's Karate-Robo Zaborgar is a movie that has everything: a female cyborg girl with a detachable head and with missiles hidden in her metal bra, a samurai robot with enormous lips, a floating castle, a lactating man, multiple exploding footballs, a flying wheelchair powered by flatulence, and, lest we forget, sex tentacles.

Friday, September 7, 2012

Flying Swords of Dragon Gate

Proves Kong is still king.

Action
Rod Lott
Although my bank account thinks otherwise, I miss the early-aughts craze of DVDs, in which one count upon pristine prints of one martial-arts film or another hitting store shelves. Many of them starred Jackie Chan or Jet Li.

Monday, October 8, 2012

Knight watch

Batman soars into Oklahoma City to deliver a little BAM! POW! OOF! in an action-packed, effects-laden stage show.

Performing Arts
Rod Lott
Batman Live
7 p.m. Wednesday-Friday, 11:30 a.m. Saturday, 3:30 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday, 1 and 5 p.m. Sunday
Chesapeake Energy Arena
100 W. Reno
chesapeakearena.com
800-745-3000
$19.50-$69.50

Wednesday, October 10, 2012