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Posted by on Nov 15, 2013 in Blog, Movie Reviews | 1 comment

Movie Review: About Time

 

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What if you could go back in time.  Would you?

If given the opportunity, I suppose most of us would choose to rewind and relive certain events in our lives over again.  We’d try to fix what we messed up.  Correct mistakes we made.  Take back something we said.

Then again — would our lives actually turn out any better if we could do them over and over until we finally got it right?  What about the lives of those around us?  Wouldn’t their lives be disrupted too and turn out differently?  What if everyone else is perfectly happy with how things turned out the first time around?  Do they get to voice an opinion?  These are a few of the serious questions worth pondering in the new film “About Time.”

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Posted by on Oct 18, 2013 in Blog | 2 comments

Thoughts on Sneak Preview of “Ultimatebeat: Too Much to Lose” (Documentary About the UltimateBet Poker Scandal)

 

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Last night I joined a select group of Las Vegas poker players who were invited to preview a rough cut of the explosive film documentary called Ultimatebeat:  Too Much to Lose.

The film gets its title from some wordplay on the Ultimatebet scandal, which rocked the industry at the tail end of the poker boom.  According to investigators, the unsuspecting high-stakes poker-playing victims were defrauded out of tens of millions of dollars.

So, where did all that money go and who got away with the crimes?

That’s what Ultimatebeat:  Too Much to Lose seeks to answer, in painstaking detail.

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