Sunday 19 May
OKG Newsletter
Topic: kill
Kill
Or be killed. Or don’t bother.
A Necessary Death
Suicide isn’t painless.
Drama
Rod Lott
Gilbert Toma had an original, envelope-pushing idea for his film school thesis project: Document the final days of someone who has decided to end his or her life, including the actual act of suicide. One Craigslist ad seeking such a subject later, 142 tapes were shot, and the end result is A Necessary Death.
Django, Kill! (If You Live Shoot!)
Viewer, watch!
Western
Rod Lott
Is there a title more intriguing yet baffling than the punctuation-heavy Django, Kill! (If You Live Shoot!)? Don't answer that. The important thing is just that the 1967 Italian cult favorite now has been unleashed uncensored on Blu-ray from Blue Underground.
Looper
It's a real time killer.
Science Fiction
Phil Bacharach
Hurray for movies with ideas. In Looper, writer-director Rian Johnson crams in so many, it initially looks as if this sci-fi actioner might collapse under the weight of them all. Dystopian society, time travel, telekinesis, gangland killings — there are a lot of ground rules to keep track of here, much of them conveyed through the wobbly device of a narrator.
Theater of blood
In reviving the Grand Guignol tradition, Reduxion sets the stage for murder.
Performing Arts
Rod Lott
Night of Grand Guignol: French Theatre of Horror
8 p.m. Friday-Saturday, through Oct. 27
Reduxion Theatre
1613 N. Broadway
reduxiontheatre.com
651-3191
$15-$18
Examining Islam
Turkish journalist Mustafa Akyol addresses questions of Islam, the Middle East and democracy at a Monday lecture.
Features
Greg Horton
Mustafa Akyol
7 p.m. Monday
Bishop W. Angie Smith Chapel, Oklahoma City University
2501 N. Blackwelder
okcu.edu
426-5425
free
Maximum Conviction
And minimal competence.
Action
Rod Lott
In Maximum Conviction, Steve Austin forever speaks like there’s a pinch of Skoal eating through the corner of his bottom lip, but I have no idea what’s going on with Steven Seagal’s accent attempt: Southern? Cajun? Ebonics? An overly phlegmy head cold? Your guess is as good as mine, and unfortunately, I’ve seen the movie.
Killing them softly
Are you a broken person? Relax, and let the post-punk sounds of Kill the Reflection make it all better.
Music
Joshua Boydston
Kill the Reflection with Aurora Sky
9 p.m. Friday
Blue Note Lounge
2408 N. Robinson
thebluenotelounge.com
600-1166
$6
Kill the Reflection with Sticky Stranglets and Johnny Badseed and the Rotten Apples
8 p.m. Saturday
HiLo Club
1221 N.W. 50th
hiloclub.net
843-1722
$4
Kill ’Em All
Morrrrrtal combatttttt!
Action
Rod Lott
For the first 10 minutes, I wondered if Kill ’Em All weren’t a movie at all, but a collection of unrelated action vignettes — a bomb hit here, a knife throw there, fists and feet everywhere — as seemingly unrelated characters fight, but hardly speak, with no story given.
