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Fasten your seatbelts and prepare for the race of your life! Super Speedway puts you in the driver's seat of an Indy-type race car tearing asphalt at speeds of over 230 mph. Follow the excitement and drama of championship auto racing with narrator and celebrated actor Paul Newman, and join racing star Michael Andretti and his legendary father, Mario, as craft a state-of-the-art race car. Then follow the pulse beat of action at high speed Michael pursuit of victory, because it pushes the boundaries of the new car at the PPG CART World Series. Then, start the engine - Super Speedway is about to begin! PLUS: Are you ever wondered: "How they do that?" "The Making of 'Super Speedway" (47 min.) Filmed in high-definition video, which takes place behind the scenes.…
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Based on the perennial best-selling book by HG Bissinger, Friday Night Lights looks at high school football in the harsh light of reality, finding heart and hardness while stirring our emotions. Actor and director Peter Berg (Very Bad Things, The shading) is Bissinger's cousin, who knows the subject, and how the obsession with the school is transformed into a victory darker, more pressure gladiators - expendable soldiers in a community war against sin and darkness. The fact-based story of 1988 is focused on football season Odessa-Permian high school in West Texas, and like a fast sports movie, Berg offers products with a wonderful, frantic style crowd pleaser. But there is darkness in this tale de las disadvantaged, including an abusive father (also played by country music star Tim McGraw), threatening the inhabitants, an injured star running back (Derek Luke), fourth tormented (Lucas Black ), and the melancholy coach (Billy Bob Thornton), which…
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Any Given Sunday, Oliver Stone's salute-cum-exposé of pro football, belabors some pretty clear night for about three hours, but between the frenetic editing, the flying beats rap music, shows and more flashy, it's certainly never boring. Al Pacino, coach of the fictional Miami Sharks (the NFL declined involvement in this production), struggles with most of the time-honored of sports movie dilemmas: what to do with the old friend who has spent his first couple and the sample, that could save the franchise, but must first learn what it means to be a team player is. Comedian Jamie Foxx is a marvelous dramatic turn as the fourth rookie in me and the talent are equally impressive, while Pacino seems more at ease in Oliver Stone Land of any actor since regular James Woods (on hand and a sleazy team doctor). Wandering margin, spitting, shouting orders as paint, taking in almost physical pain when a game goes in the wrong direction, it is also, shamelessly, Pacino…
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Thank you for the lovely Dana Brown, Step into Liquid, the surfing scene in Sheboygan, Wisconsin should have a good push. That's because Brown, in the tradition of his father, director Bruce Brown (The Endless Summer), has captured dazzling images of surfers riding curls in some of the world's most exotic - and sometimes not - places. In addition to actions on Lake Michigan, Brown leads us in Costa Rica, where the senior elite (including Summer star Robert August) prove they still have the shots, and the north shore of Oahu, where the legendary Pipeline inspires this quote: " It's so scary, it could be a po 'morire. "The most fun is a segment in County Donegal, where the American Malloy brothers surprise people and meet their Irish counterparts on ocean grayest imaginable. Great stories, including the history of Northern California Dale Webster, who has never missed a day for the air in 30 years. - Tom Keogh From the creators of ENDLESS…
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In the air above Switzerland, on the pure rock and ice wall known as the Eiger, an American climber is about to undertake the most dangerous and meaningful ascent he has ever undertaken: an attempt to scale the legendary mountain that took his renowned father of life. In an environment of great natural beauty, the Alto Adige is a real life story of extraordinary courage. And 'the intensely personal journey of a man who has every reason to climb the deadly Eiger North Face (the most difficult climb in Europe), but should climb. With some of the most spectacular images seen giantscreen, the film celebrates the incomparable beauty of the Alps and the indomitable spirit of the people who live there.…
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