Golden Striker - Ron Carter

Get Carter!

Advantages: Samuel L Jackson
Disadvantages: Cliche

era. Before Barak Obama they would get their inspiration from sport, music and the movies, the basketball feel good flick atop of that particular pile at the multiplexes, and I think its fair to say there's been quite a few of those B-Ball movies over the decades, Americas foremost black acting talent only too willing to be in them, an essential part of any 'right on' brothers acting CV. The world's coolest dude, Samuel L Jackson, is one of those brothers in question here; Coach Carter earning MTV films its biggest ever opening weekend at $25 million dollars. Black Americans love basketball because it's nearly always the classic rags to riches trip and one of the very few styles of film you can have an all black cast and soundtrack to, let alone the inspiration of the sport that offers one of the few ways out of the ghetto coming over ...

thedevilinme 19.08.2009 (28.08.2009) · Read full review
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Review of Coach Carter (DVD)

Stronger - Carlene Carter

Advantages: Excellent vocals, some really catchy songs, great instruments
Disadvantages: Occasional hints of Shania Twain which scare me

The Carter-Cash family must surely be the royalty of country music. By the time June Carter married Johnny Cash she had been performing in her family band - the aptly named Carter Family - for decades. In true country style, June had a dramatic personal life, marrying three times; Johnny was her third husband. Each marriage produced a child, and Carlene Carter, whose album "Stronger" I'm reviewing here, was from her first marriage to a honky-tonk singer, Carl Smith. Carlene started out as more of a rock singer than a country singer. Like her mother she's had a quite an eventful private life with much documented problems with addiction and failed marriages (she has been married four times and her third husband was the British musician Nick Lowe). The death of three members of her family in a short space of time also profoundly ...

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Review of Stronger - Carlene Carter

Carter the life Coach

Advantages: Samuel L Jackson, Feel good movie, uplifting
Disadvantages: bits can feel manufactured, clichéd

The Movie The real life coach (Ken) Carter made the news in 1999 for closing the Gym and banning any basketball activities because several of the students in his team were not doing well in the classroom. The reason he took drastic action was because all the students on the team signed contracts that they would meet a minimum criteria which encompassed all of their education, not just the basketball side of it. Six years later in 2005 Samuel L Jackson steps into Carter's shoes for the movie where he transforms an unfit, uneducated, uncaring bunch of delinquent kids who won 4 basketball games the previous season into winners. Not only winners in terms of them being undefeated within their chosen sport, but also winners in that he instilled pride into what was until recently a mob of unruly kids. Of course the kids initially ...

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Review of Coach Carter (DVD)