I saw it at the Toronto Film Fest. It was good. Rourke can act. I liked JCVD too if you can catch it. Van Damme can act. Whodathunkit? Sadly, the most entertaining part of another movie I saw, Miracle at St. Anna's, was sitting two rows behind Danny Glover and seeing Alicia Keys swept in by security. She's finer in person - which is amazing to me.
I can't wait for it. Aronofsky's a beast, Rourke seems to have been born to play this role even more so than "Marv" in Sin City, And as a kid who wrote Hulk Hogan a get well card after seeing Earthquake sit on his chest, I am absolutely psysed to see this jont.
It's a very, very, fine movie and as much a departure for Aronofsky as for Rourke. It's a very quiet, very subdued, very staid film that lives in extremely (sometimes painfully so) long takes and reactions.
It's not only masterfully made it, sadly, could be autobiography for dozens (if not hundreds) of idols of my childhood.
Big thumbs up all around from my group, most of whom have no previous knowledge (or professed interest) in professional wrestling.
It was by far one of the standouts of my Toronto Film Festival this year.
Here's a piece no one cared about. Meh, whatever, probably the most enjoyable article I did during my stint at TIME. Premiered a month before I got laid-off. The nail in the coffin? Ya think?
Here's me going after Al. I didn't so much have a problem with him, as I had a problem with media acting like this dude was the go-to guy for everything black.
This was my first real story at time. I was writing for the Business section, a real change of direction for me. At any rate, it's about Wal-Mart's attempts to colonize the inner-city. As much as I enjoyed this piece, I mostly enjoyed going out to Chicago, which is a beautiful, beautiful city.
This a piece I did about the cops just outside our nation capitol, in Prince George's County, a few years back. I wanted to offer a counter to the dumb, conventional wisdom that if you paint your police force black, you could eradicate police brutality. In fact, Prince George's--one of the richest, blackest counties in the country--also had one of the most brutal police force's in the country.
The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons, and an Unlikely Road to Manhood 
I saw it at the Toronto Film Fest. It was good. Rourke can act. I liked JCVD too if you can catch it. Van Damme can act. Whodathunkit? Sadly, the most entertaining part of another movie I saw, Miracle at St. Anna's, was sitting two rows behind Danny Glover and seeing Alicia Keys swept in by security. She's finer in person - which is amazing to me.
I can't wait for it. Aronofsky's a beast, Rourke seems to have been born to play this role even more so than "Marv" in Sin City, And as a kid who wrote Hulk Hogan a get well card after seeing Earthquake sit on his chest, I am absolutely psysed to see this jont.
There's a nice story about Rourke and 'The Wrestler' in LA Weekly:
http://www.laweekly.com/2008-09-25/film-tv/year-of-the-ram/
It's a very, very, fine movie and as much a departure for Aronofsky as for Rourke. It's a very quiet, very subdued, very staid film that lives in extremely (sometimes painfully so) long takes and reactions.
It's not only masterfully made it, sadly, could be autobiography for dozens (if not hundreds) of idols of my childhood.
Big thumbs up all around from my group, most of whom have no previous knowledge (or professed interest) in professional wrestling.
It was by far one of the standouts of my Toronto Film Festival this year.