This completely absorbing three-hour documentary follows the lives of two inner-city African American teenage basketball prodigies as they move through high school with long-shot dreams of the NBA, superstardom, and an escape from the ghetto. Taking cues from such works as Michael Apted’s 35 Up, director Steve James and associates shot more than 250 hours […]
Archives for February 2024
Dark City
John Murdoch (Rufus Sewell) awakens in a hotel bathtub, suffering from amnesia. He receives a telephone call from Dr. Daniel Schreber (Kiefer Sutherland), who urges him to flee the hotel from a group of men who are after him. During the telephone conversation, John discovers the corpse of a brutalized, ritualistically murdered woman, along with […]
Whale Rider
Paikea Apirana (Keisha Castle-Hughes) is a young girl who wants to inherit what only a young make could: the right to be a whale rider, one who rides on top of a whale from Hawaiki. Her grandfather (Rawiri Paratene ) loves her, carrying her to school every day on his bicycle, but he also blames […]
Harry O: The Series
Over the years I’ve enjoyed many TV private detectives: Mannix, Rockford, Magnum, 77 Sunset Strip, SurfSide 6 and Checkmate, however none more than Harry O. Harry O was the melding of a great actor and a perfect role for that actor. The Fugitive is one of my favorite series, however I’ve always felt that he […]