IMAX 3D documentary about animals whose destiny is to exist in the wild, narrated by Morgan Freeman. Opens wide on April 8.

TV executive, producer and talk show host David Susskind will be the focus of the next edition of TV CONFIDENTIAL on Monday, Apr. 11, 8 pm CST. The show will also be available as a podcast. Links in GroupBlog 324.

Jon Heder is the star of a movie now in production: "Buddy Holly is Alive and Well on Ganymede". Plot recap: All TV channels worldwide show a noninterruptible live performance by Buddy Holly originating from a Jovian moon. Oliver Vale is the apparent object of the broadcasts. Story elements relevant to TTM include TV, a drive-in theater, 60s/70s/80s pop music and culture, and the Kansas/Oklahoma setting (book only). YouTube and links in GroupBlog 324.

Robert Redford's relevant, thought-provoking film about the immediate aftermath of the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. Stars James McAvoy, Robin Wright and Tom Wilkinson. Opens wide on April 15.

As part of a general discussion with veteran Tulsa projectionist Scott Linder about Tulsa theaters and equipment, we see a photo of the webmaster as Audio Visual guy in 1967 or 8 at Lewis and Clark jr. high in GroupBlog 325.

Take a heaping helping of 1956's "Trapeze", mix in mid-30s Gable/Harlow movies, and add a soupcon of 1955's "Picnic", and you have something much like this new movie starring Robert Pattinson and Reese Witherspoon. Opens wide on April 23.

Best Foreign Language Oscar winner for 2011. Danish director Susanne Bier and screenwriter Anders Thomas Jensen tell a stoic story about two upper-middle class Danish families, one just stricken with the natural death of the mother, the other slipping from estrangement into divorce. Each has a boy about 11 years old. Chew calls it grounded and uplifting, despite the strife, pain and disillusionment. Now in limited release, opens at Tulsa's Circle Cinema on 5/20.

Will Ferrell is Nick, recently-fired regional VP of sales and backsliding alcoholic whose wife put his ass out in the grass. Rebecca Hall is Samantha, newly moved in across the street from Nick, pregnant and awaiting her husband's arrival to settle down to Arizona living. Laura Dern is Delilah, divorced former high school bud of Nick's, living in the area with her two kids. She and Nick haven't seen each since graduation. Opens at the Circle Cinema 5/13.

Depressing, maudlin, creepier than "Mulholland Drive", but then again, Mel Gibson's character is seen talking to Jon Stewart with a stuffed beaver on his fist. Opens wide on May 20.

Director Terrence Malick creates a realistic, but dreamlike tale, spinning from a routine life in Waco of the mid-Fifties to an urban present. Stars Brad Pitt and Sean Penn. In limited release May 27.

Woody Allen's new movie has Owen Wilson escaping his Hollywood present to early 20th Century Paris. A better time to live a life? With Rachel McAdams, now in limited release.

A tender, funny, coming-of-age yarn starring Freddie Highmore, Emma Roberts, Alicia Silverstone, Blair Underwood and Rita Wilson. Opens wide June 17.

Thirtysomething Oliver has just struggled his way past the event of the death of his eccentric mother. Not long after, his father announces: "I'm gay. And I've known it since before I married your mother." Stars Ewan McGregor and Christopher Plummer. Now in limited release.

Plenty of laughs in this R-rated, extremely rude flick. Jason Bateman, Jason Sedeikus and Charlie Day are the aggrieved employees; Kevin Spacey, Colin Farrell and Jennifer Aniston are the horrible bosses. Opens wide Friday.

Henry Mancini's great tune "Dreamsville" is heard in the background as Peter Gunn (Craig Stevens) and his girlfriend Edie (Lola Albright) cook Swedish meatballs on a hibachi in Pete's apartment. Their idyl is broken by a phone call. Lola Albright recorded the tune on her album "Dreamsville", orchestra conducted by Mancini.

Gary Chew says FwB is really, really quite bad. But on the brighter side, it does feature Mila Kunis, Justin Timberlake, Woody Harrelson, Patricia Clarkson, Jenna Elfman and Richard Jenkins. Opens wide July 22.

Daniel Craig can't remember a thing when he wakes up in the Old West with a high-tech wristwatch thing attached to his arm. It's just what he'll need in this new-fashioned shoot-em-up with Harrison Ford and Olivia Wilde. Opens wide July 29.

A double of Earth has been behind the sun for eons... until now. A young woman's life changes at the instant its synchronicity with Earth One is broken. Starring Brit Marling and William Mapother, coming soon to a theater near you.

New reader Karl H asks about Consumers. Beryl Ford photos and a link in GroupBlog 330.

Emma and Dexter are college students who have an overnight fling just after graduation. They decide to meet up same time each year to see what's up with their friendship. With Jim Sturgess, Anne Hathaway and Patricia Clarkson. Opens wide Friday.

In the 1990s, three former Mossad agents try to work out what went wrong during their mid-60s mission in East Berlin to kidnap and bring to justice a very evil man. With Helen Mirren, Tom Wilkinson and Jessica Chastain. Now playing.

Actress Vera Farmiga makes her directorial debut in this contemporary story of a thirtysomething married woman and mother dealing with her faith. Now playing.

Remake of Sam Peckinpah's 1971 classic is important, and in its strange and unsettling way, approaches cinematic art. Stars James Marsden and Kate Bosworth. Now playing.

This low-key Brad Pitt vehicle, a cerebral baseball story, may not be to everyone's taste, including Oscar's. Also stars Jonah Hill and Philip Seymour Hoffman. Opens today.

Pretty entertaining for a templated rom-com. The number in question is how many persons with whom one has shared intimate moments. Stars Anna Faris, Chris Evans, Ari Graynor and Blythe Danner. Opens today.

Stellar cast in a drama portraying an Ohio presidential primary scheduled on what proved to be a bad hair day for Julius Caesar. With Ryan Gosling, George Clooney, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Paul Giamatti, Evan Rachel Wood, Marisa Tomei, Jeffrey Wright and Gregory Itzin. Opens today.

An age-appropriate "Harold and Maude" with a shading of "Love Story": Mia Wasikowska and Henry Hopper meet, then go to funerals of people they don't know. Now playing.

"Margin Call" is a fictionalized account of the meltdowns of Merrill Lynch, Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers and AIG in September 2008. The Halloween scare is just how close the financial world came to the brink of chaos. Stars Kevin Spacey, Jeremy Irons, Stanley Tucci, Simon Baker and Demi Moore. Opens 11/4 at the Circle Cinema in Tulsa.

This cinematic version of Hunter Thompson's first novel is set in 1960 Puerto Rico at a slow-dying multilingual newspaper. Johnny Depp gets involved with predatory capitalism at the beginning of the Castro era. Now playing.

Biopic starring Leonardo DiCaprio as the iconic FBI chief with Judi Dench, Annie Hoover. Naomi Watts, Helen Gandy and Armie Hammer. Now playing.

George Clooney is a soon-to-be widower who is part of a multi-generational Hawaiian family. Will he and his extended family sell the virgin coastal land on Kauai they've owned for generations? Opens today.

A new Steven Spielberg film that astounds your visual senses. Opens Christmas Day.

A ill-starred science fiction convention was one of the last events held at the Camelot Inn on 51st and Peoria in 1992.

I captured a YouTube video of an odd glitch on the Wii while playing Gottlieb Hall of Fame pinball.

Radio interview with Morgan Woodward on the 2nd hour of TV Confidential, Wed 9/26 at 7pm on WROMRadio.net. Podcast available next week.

All these amusement parks of Tulsa past can be seen tonight on RSU-TV's final encore of "Green Country People and Places", 7:30 pm, Thur, 10/3. Producer/director Bryan Crain contributed photos of Skyline and Lakeview to TTM. Lowell Burch's Skyline Park home movie is included. Broadcast channel 35.1, Cox 109 or 793.

On the TTM YouTube Channel: my onscreen bit about the camera supplied by Chris Sloan to the RSUTV "UHF" telethon last Saturday.

From the TTM Channel on YouTube.

All on the main page today: Emily Elliott's video of the Weird Al UHF tour we co-hosted, that video being featured on Good Day Tulsa, and a "joint" appearance by Al and Emily's arm on KTUL.

The company that hosts the GroupBlog, Pathfinder, may have terminated the service. Not sure yet. I have archived the Google cached copy of the most recent GB 341, so nothing was lost. For the time being, the TTM Facebook site can stand in for it (click the Facebook icon on the main page).

The TTM webmaster was interviewed by Janna Clark of Fox23 about the poor condition of the pond in James C. Leake Park, 5 pm Tuesday 8/26 on KOKI Channel 23. Now added to the TTM Channel

Jimmie Tramel wrote an article about KTUL's Plenty Scary Movie in Monday's Tulsa World.

One of the attributed sources for Jimmie Tramel's article.

From the OK Historical Society. Shot in OKC in 1972, starring Robert Lansing ('Gary Seven'), Marj Dusay ('Brain and brain, what is brain' from 'Spock's Brain'), and Peter Hardt of Fantastic Theater. Now on the main page, and favorited on the TTM YouTube Channel.

Here is the video of investigative reporter Janna Clark's FOX23 News report yesterday with my interview.

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