Music
Rod Lott
Stephenie Meyer's not the only novelist moving millions upon millions of copies these days. So is Stieg Larsson, although he sadly died before his books saw print.Nonetheless, the Swedish author becam...
Thursday 20 Jun
OKG Newsletter
Topic: film
'SNL' skit turned action movie parody 'MacGruber' disarms disaster and outlives expectations
Music
Mike Robertson
As we've seen several times over the last 30 years, adapting sketches from "Saturday Night Live" into full-length movies is a hit-and-miss proposition. For every "The Blues Brothers," we get five "Con...
A housebroken monster wrestles with complacency in 'Shrek Forever After,' a tale for kids and adults
Music
Doug Bentin
I could write three reviews of "Shrek Forever After": one about the animated movie for kids, one about the subtext, and one about the even deeper, more subversive sub-subtext, but the Gazette would ne...
'Sex and the City 2' ends up being not so sheik
Music
Marjorie Baumgarten
Like Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker), who frets that the "sparkle" has gone out of her two-year marriage to Big (Chris Noth), "Sex and the City 2," based on the long-running HBO series, douses ...
Nothing can keep 'Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time' from repetitive action and self-seriousness
Music
Doug Bentin
Let's get the least significant thing about "Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time" out of the way first: Is it OK to cast Brit and American actors in the roles of Persians? Yes. It's called "acting." B...
'Mother' keeps the tone light while delivering a punch
Music
Mike Robertson
In "Mother," 20-something Yoon Do-joon (Bin Won) lives with his mom (Hye-ja Kim), still sharing a bed with her and allowing her to treat him like a boy. She watches Do-joon while she works, worries ab...
Keep these flicks on your radar at the 10th deadCENTER Film Festival, since you can't see everything
Music
Joshua Boydston, Adam Kemp, Rod Lott and Joe Wertz
deadCENTER has been building momentum for a decade, and organizers expect more than 10,000 film fans to help celebrate the event's 10th year. There's more than 100 movies screening today through Sunda...
Jonah Hill and Russell Brand join forces for a near-perfect comedy in 'Get Him to the Greek'
Music
Mike Robertson
Sequels usually maintain a certain consistency from their source material. Even if it isn't a direct continuation of the original story, the characters and their places within the fictional universe a...
