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Week of July 19, 2013
I can't see Caucasians when they wear white. First up…
42
Steroids in baseball are the result of white players trying to compete with their drug-free, non-white counterparts.
Thankfully, this biography takes place before integration, so there’s no juicing.
In 1946, Montreal Royals first baseman Jackie Robison (Chadwick Boseman) breaks minor league baseball’s colour barrier.
In 1947, he does the same to the MLB.
Despite opposition from his players, Brooklyn Dodgers’ general manager, Branch Rickey (Harrison Ford), signs Robinson to play second base.
On a national stage, Jackie must keep his anger in check as he performs amid racial slurs from fans and chin music from pitchers.
Thankfully, he has his pregnant wife (Nicole Beharie) to keep him focused on winning.
Based on true events, 42 portrays Robinson’s historic first season to satisfaction, but fails to expand to his other career accomplishments.
And eventually white fans did stop racially taunting African-American baseball players and moved onto racially taunting African-American hockey players. 0
Evil Dead
When reading the Book of the Dead it’s probably not a good idea to lick your finger before turning the page.
Mind you, the pages of the tome in this horror movie shouldn’t be turned at all.
David (Shiloh Fernandez), his girlfriend (Elizabeth Blackmore) and their friends Eric (Lou Taylor Pucci) and Olivia (Jessica Lucas) arrive at the isolated cabin where they will assist with his drug-addled sister Mia’s (Jane Levy) withdrawal.
In the basement of the cottage, Eric unearths a barbed wire bound book that he liberates from its bindings and reads.
His words invoke a demon that takes possession of Mia and threatens the lives of the others in the cabin.
A re-make of The Evil Dead, this contemporary take has the production value to amp up the gore but not the scares to surpass its ancestor.
Besides, books in the wild should only be used to start campfires. 0
Bullet to the Head
Teaming a hitman with a cop is likely to only result in heated augments over who gets more room in the gun cabinet.
Thankfully, the odd coupling in this action movie are not roommates.
When an assassin (Jason Momoa) murders his partner (Jon Seda), after they just completed a hit on a corrupt cop, hired gun Bobo (Sylvester Stallone) believes he’s next.
Meanwhile, Det. Kwon (Sung Kang) tempts to solve the officer’s death but is impeded by a businessman (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje) intent on developing a poor area of town.
In order to close the case, Kwon must side with Bobo. But doing so means partnering with the criminal element. Something Kwon isn’t comfortable doing.
With bad acting, antiquated action, and a banal script, a real bullet to the head would be more gratifying than this pap.
Incidentally, wouldn’t it be easier to just hire the hitman to kill them self? 0
***Banter Up***
Cobb
You would think that in a sport where teams carry around baseball bats that its players wouldn’t so blatantly insult each other.
However, the outfielder in this biography ran his mouth as much as his feet.
Hiring famed sportswriter Al Stump (Robert Wuhl), the cantankerous Ty Cobb (Tommy Lee Jones) hopes to whitewash his blemished baseball reputation with a glowing autobiography.
While staying with the 72-year-old alcoholic at his home in Lake Tahoe, Stump, himself, experiences the legendary irritability of the Hall of Famer.
Over the many months and miles he spends with Cobb, Stump must decide if he’s going to pen a sanitized memoir or his own tell all.
Based on Stump’s book, Tommy Lee Jones’ performance is certainly a homerun, however, the story revels too much in Cobb’s senility and deep-seated racism.
Furthermore, portraying baseball players as racists is insulting to those players who are just degenerate gamblers.
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