Action
Rod Lott
Whether “The Transporter” or now “The Mechanic,” Jason Statham has one job in Hollywood, but he does it quite well: being cinema’s most reliable action star of the 21st century.
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The Mechanic
Jason Statham. You know the rest.
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Thanks for the shout-out, Jesse Eisenberg!
CFN
Gazette staff
Even if “The King’s Speech” wins Best Picture at next month’s Academy Awards, the Oklahoma Film Critics Circle singled out “The Social Network” as its pick for the best motion picture of 2010. The organization also honored the Facebook biopic with three other awards, including Best Actor for Jesse Eisenberg.
Short stuff
Brief in length but long in creativity, this year’s crop of Oscar-nominated shorts fills the screen at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art.
Features
Rod Lott
Each Oscar season, the Oklahoma City Museum of Art affords movie buffs the opportunity to see the Academy Award nominees it otherwise wouldn’t: the short films. All five animated and all five live-action shorts will be shown Friday and Saturday in separate programs, with the animated ones unspooling at 5:30 p.
The Illusionist
Nice trick
The pursuit of 'Happiness'
Covering six continents, the documentary “The Economics of Happiness” gets an Oklahoma premiere on Friday.
Features
Courtney Silva
In today’s society, fewer people can say they are truly happy — at least according to “The Economics of Happiness.”
I Spy ... ?
With The Spy having left the airwaves a quarter of a year ago, its fervent fans still rally behind its online incarnation, but hope for an eventual return to the dial.
Music
Joshua Boydston
When people first heard the news of The Spy’s exit from FM radio on Dec. 4, 2010, the response was more than of sadness and disappointment.
A more perfect union
Letters to the Editor
Jim Ammerman
Jason Reese (Commentary, “Can it happen here?,” March 3, Oklahoma Gazette) starts out his argument with an opinion stated as fact. Reese states that “the only viable answer” is to convert defined benefit pensions to defined contribution pensions, and that “collective bargaining rights” are “the root of the problem.”
Bill Cunningham New York
After documenting street fashion for 30 years, a photographer becomes the subject, in the documentary ‘Bill Cunningham New York.’
Documentary
Rod Lott
Bill Cunningham New York
7:30 p.m. Thursday, 5:30 and 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday
Oklahoma City Museum of Art, 415 Couch
okcmoa.com, 236-3100
$8
