Dusty Somers
Dusty Somers is a journalism senior from Seattle. He likes movies with words at the bottom of the screen.
Recent Stories
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December 13, 2010The Daily’s Life & Arts staff voted on the best films of 2010. Some expected contenders for the list, including “Black Swan” and “True Grit” ...
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December 2, 2010Brian Regan has built a career on pointing out the ridiculousness inherent in everyday life, from the overly specific directions on Pop-Tarts packaging to the ...
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November 3, 2010Oklahoma voters overwhelmingly rejected State Question 744, a ballot initiative that would have required the Legislature to increase funding for public education. The measure failed ...
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October 25, 2010Oklahoma State Question 744 is a proposed constitutional amendment that, if passed, will require the Oklahoma State legislature to increase funding for public education. If ...
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October 23, 2010Republican state Rep. Ken Miller and Democrat Stephen E. Covert are facing each other in the race for state treasurer. Miller, who defeated former state ...
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October 23, 2010Democrat Emily Virgin and Republican Kent Hunt face each other in the race for the House District 44 seat. District 44 encompasses the heart of ...
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October 22, 2010For most of us, the airport is a necessary evil. A gateway to better things. A holding pattern until we’re at the place we really ...
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October 18, 2010The delightfully weird sheen of Richard O’Brien’s “The Rocky Horror Show” hasn’t dulled with age, and nearly 40 years after its London premiere, the show ...
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October 15, 2010“Never Let Me Go” looks a lot more like Merchant Ivory than Philip K. Dick, but make no mistake, this is a science fiction film, ...
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October 4, 2010My expectations of "The Social Network" changed immediately upon viewing its first theatrical trailer — a haunting, melancholy piece scored with a Belgian female choir ...
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September 27, 2010In this age of irony, what’s a show like “Rent,” with all of its unabashed earnestness, to do? Four Tony Awards, a Pulitzer Prize and ...
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August 27, 2010Singer-songwriter Ben Kweller has been making music since he was 12, first performing with the band Radish, and later building a solo career that has ...
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May 7, 2010It couldn’t have taken long for the “Iron Man 2” assembly line to get fired up after the surprise success of the first film, which ...
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May 3, 2010Hopes and dreams coalesce with fear and rejection in “A Chorus Line,” the Pulitzer- and Tony Award-winning musical that remains as potent today as it ...
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April 30, 2010It’s a cutthroat world for performers of musical theater, where rejection is often just another audition away. That’s the way it is for the characters ...
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April 28, 2010One of Alfred Hitchcock’s early British films gets re-imagined in a stage adaptation that pumps up the comedy while thinning down the cast, and the ...
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April 23, 2010Paul Stuart is a self-professed musical theater lover, but despite his high school experience in a number of musicals, he never was cast in one ...
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April 20, 2010Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the basis for a Best Picture Oscar-winning film, “Driving Miss Daisy” owes a great deal to its pervading niceness. ...
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April 16, 2010Summer comes early for college students and movies alike. Forget the solstice — the beginning of May means summer at the box office.
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April 14, 2010Wayne Rawley knows what it’s like to work a dead-end job behind a counter — the boredom, the interminability, the soul-crushing weight of mediocrity.
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April 9, 2010Life in a Shaker community sure is a paradise.
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April 9, 2010At its best when it’s flaunting a grimy, down-in-the-dirt rock ’n’ roll attitude, “The Runaways” is half unhinged, maniacal fun and half treacly biopic convention.
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April 2, 2010The modern, traditional, elegant and whimsical converge in Oklahoma Festival Ballet, now on stage at the Rupel Jones Theatre through April 11.
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March 29, 2010The façade of American suburban placidity comes crumbling down in Arthur Miller’s masterwork, “All My Sons,” now on stage at Carpenter Square Theatre in Oklahoma ...
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March 26, 2010“Hot Tub Time Machine” gets points for its fearlessly blunt title; too bad it oversells the fun quotient by about a mile.
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March 26, 2010DreamWorks Animation sets itself a new benchmark with “How to Train Your Dragon,” a disarmingly fun and exciting romp in a world of dueling Vikings ...
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March 23, 2010When some distant civilization discovers cultural artifacts from this decade, we can only hope they don’t find “The Bounty Hunter.”
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March 12, 2010“Remember Me” is a film drunk on its own self-seriousness, but somehow, that seems to matter less and less and it progresses.
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March 9, 2010“That’s what she said” jokes may not be very mature, but man, can they be funny. Such is the case with “Lysistrata,” an update by ...
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March 5, 2010“Brooklyn’s Finest” is an epic tragedy of basic cable proportions. It feels like it belongs within the confines of your home screen, with the remote ...
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March 3, 2010Emotions run high and the hair even higher in “Steel Magnolias,” the weepy drama about the joy and sorrow of friendship in 1980s small-town Louisiana. ...
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February 19, 2010Rob Lake didn’t get an acceptance letter from Hogwarts on his 11th birthday, so he had to make his own magic.
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February 19, 2010For film fans, a Martin Scorsese picture released in the middle of February is like manna straight from heaven.
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February 15, 2010Despite the familiarity of its story, “To Kill a Mockingbird” is no less engrossing at the hands of University Theatre, which is staging the play ...
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February 12, 2010For director Tom Huston Orr, staging “To Kill a Mockingbird” presented a number of challenges. The biggest — a six-letter word that starts with “n.” ...
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February 8, 2010The varied and extensive songs of Grammy and Academy Award-winner Stephen Schwartz come together in “Snapshots,” an apt title that accurately describes the way in ...
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February 8, 2010The key to writing a good song for Stephen Schwartz is thinking like an actor, he said Saturday after a performance of his latest musical, ...
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February 5, 2010Hankies will be in abundance at movie theaters this weekend with the opening of “Dear John,” the latest weeper based on a Nicholas Sparks novel, ...
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February 3, 2010The Academy Awards took another step toward foregone conclusions Tuesday, announcing the list of nominees in yet another year where there aren’t likely to be ...
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January 29, 2010Life’s rough for Bad Blake, the erstwhile country music star Jeff Bridges plays in “Crazy Heart” — he’s got a quartet of divorces, very few ...
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January 28, 2010Students in the School of Dance will see their creations come alive tonight at the opening of the Young Choreographers’ Showcase, a blend of ballet ...
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January 22, 20102009 wasn’t an especially bountiful year for cinema, but audiences lapped up the slop that Hollywood plunked down into theaters all the same, with the ...
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January 20, 2010The world of stamp collecting doesn’t offer a very deep pit to mine theatrical gold from, but “Mauritius” digs deep and finds enough material of ...
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December 11, 200950. “The Dark Knight” (Christopher Nolan, 2008) 49. “Waking Life” (Richard Linklater, 2001) 48. “Rachel Getting Married” (Jonathan Demme, 2008)
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December 9, 200915. “Andy Richter Controls the Universe” (FOX, 2002-2003) 14. How I Met Your Mother (CBS, 2005-Present) 13. “This American Life” (Showtime, 2007-2008)
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December 4, 2009It’s been a rough decade for Robert De Niro. The two-time Oscar winner and star of American classics like “Taxi Driver,” “The Deer Hunter” and ...
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November 30, 2009Fast-paced, but only intermittently funny, Carpenter Square Theatre’s production of “Tom, Dick and Harry” has a laughs-to-jokes ratio that is positively woeful. Proof positive that ...
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November 24, 2009There’s a common criticism of Wes Anderson’s films — that they’re all hopelessly twee mope-fests filled with characters who get by on their ironic self-referential ...
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November 24, 2009Nearly 45 years after the culturally indelible Beatles concert that christened Shea Stadium in New York City, Paul McCartney returned for the inaugural concert at ...
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November 23, 2009One of a series of plays about life in fictional small town Tuna, Texas, “A Tuna Christmas,” has been a holiday regional theater staple for ...
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