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Written by Linda December 26, 2008
The first 20 minutes or so of Murderball were exactly what I expected from the advertising campaign. This was a sports movie, with MTV-like fast-paced editing, and a metal soundtrack...
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Written by Linda December 26, 2008
A solid enough documentary, Muhammad Ali: Through the Eyes of the World is literally that.: The film features interviews with ex-boxers that fought Ali, as well as family members, historians,...
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Written by Linda December 24, 2008
I may have been only 9 at the time of the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York, but I was conscious enough to remember that a certain USA...
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Written by Linda December 24, 2008
Seattle's local alternative weekly The Stranger probably put it best when they said, "Canadians are the funniest Americans." The US has absorbed so much talent from north of the border,...
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Written by Linda December 06, 2008
After the credits rolled at the screening of Beautiful Boxer at the Seattle Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, I heard a couple of people solemnly exclaim to each other, "That...
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Written by Linda December 02, 2008
In a year full of remakes of classic (and not-so-classic) films and TV shows, I wouldn't be surprised if The Longest Yard ends up standing proudly at the top of...
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Written by Linda December 02, 2008
This extremely entertaining documentary portrays quite literally the "first ladies of wrestling." Spanning the 1940s to the present, Lipstick & Dynamite is a dynamite time capsule of a sport that...
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Written by Linda November 30, 2008
Before showing up to the screening of Annapolis, I made sure I was good n' buzzed. With a nice strong margarita making me mentally fuzzy and relaxed, I thought that...
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Written by Linda November 30, 2008
You gotta be suspicious of a movie that has supposedly been mothballed by its studio for two years, eternally on the release schedule, but repeatedly held at the last minute...
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