Drama
Rod Lott
Strangely, the biggest shock surrounding Best Laid Plans isn't that someone thought to redo John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men in the world of underground mixed martial arts, but that it works as well as it does — or hell, that it works at all.

Music
Joshua Boydston
Corporate Ghost with Cosmostanza and The Hitt Boyz
8 p.m. Friday
Bad Granny's Bazaar
1759 N.W. 16th
528-4585

Corporate Ghost with Chud and Partners
9:30 p.m. Saturday
HiLo Club
1221 N.W. 50th
hiloclub.net
843-1722
$4

Music
Ryan Querbach
ADDverse Effects with Cadillac Jackson and Dare We Say Pioneers
8 p.m. Saturday
Opolis
113 N. Crawford, Norman
opolis.org
820-0951
$5

Western
Rod Lott
Lee Van Cleef enjoyed a secondary career in Italy cranking out spaghetti Westerns, with little regard to quality. However, 1972’s Grand Duel — aka The Big Showdown — is deserving of its Grand label. No wonder Quentin Tarantino borrowed its sweeping theme song by Luis Bacalov for Kill Bill; you'll recognize it in two notes.