Doppelganger: Actor Robert Forster
Read MoreRobert Forster is one of those familiar character actors you’ve seen many times in the movies, but probably don’t know his name.
Thoughts on Sneak Preview of “Ultimatebeat: Too Much to Lose” (Documentary About the UltimateBet Poker Scandal)
Read MoreLast 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.
“56 Up” — The Greatest Documentary Film Series of Our Time
Imagine a movie nearly 50 years in the making.
Next, imagine an unscripted story where no one knows what’s going to happen, or what the actors are going to do or say.
Read MoreThe Powerful Force of “Gravity” (Movie Review)
Read MoreGravity is an extraordinary movie and arguably the year’s best film.
A visual and technical marvel and sensory tour de force, this new film written and directed by Mexican-born Alfonso Cuaron (Y Tu Mama Tambien, Children of Men) is a quantum leap forward from all previous space movies, undoubtedly raising the creative bar to unprecedented new heights — a few hundred miles above planet earth to be more precise. Future movies within this genre are likely to be compared against Gravity as a new benchmark, most unfortunately destined to crash land far short of their target.
Did the 2007 Academy Awards Kill the Stu Ungar Movie?
Executive Producer Graham King at the 2007 Academy Awards, accepting the Best Picture Oscar
Read MoreAnyone who’s aware of the Stu Ungar story knows there’s a great movie to be made about his life. Yes, I’m biased since I co-wrote Ungar’s biography with Peter Alson titled One of a Kind: The Rise and Fall of Stuey ‘the Kid’ Ungar.
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