A sad and happy story about a boxing champ. How a bad neighborhood boy deceives fate waiting for him to become the next bully, drug dealer and hitter, number one in the list of local police office, how this boy, Mike Tyson, gets himself acquaintance with an old a pro boxing coach who find a reason to live in getting kids out of trouble through boxing. This is the happy part of the story, how the adolescent becomes a boxing machine, Champion of the World. (more…)
Otis (nice coincidence? with Michigan Offender Tracking and Information System) is a hilarious comedy around a family whose daughter gets kidnapped by a serial abductor/killer. At the very beginning I was under the impression that this is going to be a low budget bad quality film but I was patient enough to let go the first scene. On the one hand it came to my mind “Zodiac” and the Cohen Bros at the same time. (more…)
American Pit Bull is a documentary piece about this dog breed with a long history of attacks to humans in late modern history. Originally seems like this breed was created to protect humans against other animal, including other dogs while lately men transformed them into a personal legal (not in every country or state) Smith & Wesson to be used in an aleatory fashion by gang members, owners afraid of their shade and other unsocial ones. (more…)
This is the second time I watch this fine documentary about the case of 15 years old African American named Butler, who happened to be black and be found at the wrong place after someone else had committed a murder on a white old tourist at the entrance of the Ramada Inn in Florida. Corrupted police office detectives didn’t happened to be in the mood for labor at the same morning and looked for an easy victim to play the part of the killer. (more…)
Religulous is a brilliant documentary coming up with question marks to the different believers of the different creeds: is that right? A creative journey around the globe to meet and interview people from many faiths and ask them the kind of questions they don’t enjoy to answer for they seem not to have the answers to them. (more…)
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