Leadership and sport (Coach Carter)

Posted Under: drama, sport

The inspiring basketball movies, starred by top veteran movie star, Samuel L. Jackson. Story start from Coach Ken Carter who took over an unruly team of Richmond, California basketball teams. Unlike other coach, Carter teaches them how to play and behave like a champions, inside and outside of the field. He forced them increase their [...]

The Losers

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The Losers

A B-minus edition of “The A-Team,” the comic-book adaptation “The Losers” drags you down to its level at gunpoint with its drooling fetishization of weaponry, its focus on Zoe Saldana in wee shorts, various and sundry assassinations designed with gamers in mind, and more rabid mistrust of the U.S. government and its freedom-destroying institutions [...]

The Spy Next Door

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The Spy Next Door

Does anyone else miss the days of Rumble in the Bronx? Police Story? You know, when Jackie Chan could, or was, allowed to still do stunts? I thought so. Unfortunately, those days are long since passed, and now Jackie Chan movies are just lame hollow shells of something that can never be [...]

Robin Hood

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Robin Hood

You can dress it up or throw mud in its eye, but the enduring appeal of the Robin Hood legend is simple: treachery bested by archery.
The other night, Turner Classic Movies aired the evergreen 1938 classic “The Adventures of Robin Hood” (Errol Flynn in staggering three-strip Technicolor, directed by Michael Curtiz and William [...]

MacGruber

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MacGruber

The yearlong ’80s flashback that is 2010 continues with “MacGruber,” a comedy that summons up memories of mullets, “MacGyver” and Mike Myers.
A blood-spattered, hit-or-miss, “out there” character comedy of the “Wayne’s World”/”Austin Powers” school, it manages to be nostalgic and profane in equal measures, a movie that’s retro and yet retrofitted [...]

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