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"Blind"-sided

11/24/2009 5:14 PM

For two weeks, I kept seeing ads during football games for “The Blind Side,” the movie based on the true story of NFL player Michael Oher and the family that helped this ...

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See "The Cove," and watch for more Oscar docs

11/23/2009 5:58 PM

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences produced its short list of documentaries, whittling down 89 entries to 15 that will now be considered for the ultimate five ...

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First look at "The Killer Inside Me"

11/11/2009 4:56 PM

There are a few still photographs from the film “The Killer Inside Me,” the Casey Affleck-Jessica Alba-Kate Hudson movie that shot in Oklahoma (and in Tulsa for one day), ...

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Todd Lincoln attracts a "Twilight" star

11/6/2009 4:35 PM

Tulsa native and now Los Angeles-based filmmaker Todd Lincoln seems to have his most promising film project to date lined up with the news that one of the stars of 'Twilight' ...

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This just in on "This is It"

11/2/2009 3:42 PM

When the Michael Jackson documentary 'This is It' opened last week, I didn't bother to note anywhere that it would play in cinemas for only two weeks, as it was promoted, ...

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“I was born a poor, black child” … not me, actually, but Steve Martin’s character in the “The Jerk.” That absurd opening line is just one of the absurd number of film facts, quotes and minutiae contained in movie critic Michael Smith’s brain, at his disposal to toss out on a moment’s notice. It’s a key requirement as Tulsa World film critic to know these things. Michael learned a few other life facts along the way (seven years as a Crystal’s Pizza & Spaghetti manager) before attempting journalism and joining the Tulsa World in 1996, where he’s covered everything from a school shooting in Fort Gibson to a tornado in Stroud to witnessing an execution. A little community theater coverage was sprinkled in there, too. Movies engender many of his happiest memories, from standing in line for “Star Wars” and “Grease” at the Southroads Cinema to the James Bond and Pink Panther movies that always premiered at the enormous Continental Theater.

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Past Articles By Michael Smith

2/16/2013		Broken Arrow movie theater moves to discount showings
2/15/2013		Review: 'Amour'
2/15/2013		Review: 'A Good Day to Die Hard'
2/15/2013		Review: 'Beautiful Creatures'
2/14/2013		Review: 'Quartet'
2/14/2013		Shirley MacLaine to speak at Osage Casino
2/14/2013		Weekly rewind: February 14
2/14/2013		REVIEW: 'Beautiful Creatures'
2/12/2013		Belgian best picture hopeful 'Amour' opens in Tulsa on Friday
2/10/2013		'Die Hard' marathon at AMC Southroads on Wednesday ends with new film
2/9/2013		Review: 'Identity Thief' a stupid movie from stupid idea
2/8/2013		Oscar audit: Critics choices for best picture hold up over time

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