Storms force cancellation of Shawnee's Red, White and Blue Celebration

Movies playing this week at the Jones Theatres.

Playing this week at Movie 6.

For a few days, a portion of downtown Oklahoma City has been transformed into 1950s Texas for the filming of an independent movie.

The way the original 1974 film's title has been condensed tells you everything you need to know about the direction "The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3" is headed. In these fast-paced, mixed-up times, it simply takes too long to spell out the numbers.

A film based on the life of prison reformer Jack Black is to begin filming in Guthrie in July.

The first week of filming in Guthrie for the film "The Killer Inside Me" is finished, with more scenes set to be shot in the coming days.

Some movie franchises never die; they just start over.

This summer brings new versions of "X-Men," ''Terminator" and "Star Trek" — each revitalized with a tested Tinseltown technique: the origin story.

We have seen the future in "Terminator Salvation," and the future is noisy.

This fourth flick in the "Terminator" saga takes place in 2018, 14 years after Judgment Day. John Connor is a rising force in the resistance against Skynet, the artificial intelligence network that started thinking for itself and eradicating humanity. He has seen destruction and listened to the recordings left by his mother that foretell his future, but he has yet to send anyone back in time in hopes of stopping it, including the man who will become his father.

Say you're immortal, and you've served in the battlefields of the Civil War and the trenches of World War I. Wouldn't you eventually want to sit out World War II and Vietnam? Yet Hugh Jackman's mutant Wolverine and his brother (Liev Schreiber) serve in all four wars during a prologue for "X-Men Origins: Wolverine."

Liam Neeson is set to begin work on his first film since the death of his wife, Natasha Richardson.

"Monsters vs. Aliens" opens with an old 3-D gag: A ball bounces directly into the audience, causing moviegoers to instinctively scoot back in their seats. But the resemblance to old-fashioned 3-D ends there.

The most charitable thing we can say about the otherwise insufferable "Observe and Report" is that it shows Seth Rogen has some range.

The Shawnee community is invited to a viewing of the film “Inside/Out” that will be shown at three family nights held at two elementary schools, Jefferson on Monday, and Horace Mann on March 26 and Shawnee Middle School March 30. All activities will start at 6:30 p.m.

Jones Theatres Inc. and Legends 1450 KGFF Radio are joining forces again to present the annual “Cans” Film Festival, a special movie showing today to collect canned goods for The Salvation Army holiday food baskets.
The movie “Kung Fu Panda,” rated PG, will be shown at the Hornbeck Theatre, 125 N. Bell in downtown Shawnee.
The showing is before the annual Christmas parade. Cost of admission is two cans of non-perishable food per person.
Doors will open at 3:45 p.m. and the movie begins at 4:15 p.m. The movie will be over by 5:45 p.m., in time for the parade at 6:30 p.m.

Befriended by famous aviator Wiley Post in the late 1920s, Pearl was performing as a barnstormer and commercial pilot by age 14.
Produced by the Chickasaw Nation, the feature-length film is based in part on Dr. Paul Lambert’s biography “Never Give Up!: The Life of Pearl Carter Scott” published by the Chickasaw Press in 2007.

He Said: I love Joel and Ethan Coen, the director brothers that recently won an Academy Award for “No Country For Old Men.”  I cannot think of one of their movies that I did not like. I used to say that “O Brother Where Art Thou” was my favorite, but now it’s “Burn After Reading.”

Independent filmmakers from across the United States will be showcasing their pieces of work at the Southern Winds Film Festival, held in Shawnee today and Saturday. Below are various summaries of films available at the film festival.

“The Dark Knight”

He Said: I am a huge Batman fan and have been waiting for this movie for what seems like forever. “The Dark Knight” delivered on all levels for me. I have seen it twice and would love to see it again. Director Chris Nolan hits it out of the park in this second installment in his “Batman” trilogy.

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Suspense filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan has formed an impressive career out self-written, produced and directed thrillers, drawing inspiration and comparisons to Hitchcockian fare. Shyamalan’s latest movie, “The Happening” is one of the grandest disaster films in years … but not in ways the filmmakers had intended. A travesty on every front, “The Happening” is a poorly written exercise chock-full of forced dialogue, ham-fisted acting from Marky Mark and his funky bunch, and hackneyed plot devices.