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'Roll Bounce'
![Teen pictures in which kids square off in a competition form a genre unto themselves, yet the warm and wise "Roll Bounce" confounds all expectations. Writer Norman Vance Jr. and director Malcolm D. Lee dare to suggest that winning may not be everything, that a father-and-son relationship may actually be more important than a skate-off, and that it's possible to set a film in 1978 without drowning it in nostalgia and dated fads. "Roll Bounce" sports Afros and bell-bottoms yet doesn't overdo them and always has the feeling of happening in the here and now.](http://www.calendarlive.com/media/thumbnails/story/2005-09/19606119.jpg "Teen pictures in which kids square off in a competition form a genre unto themselves, yet the warm and wise "Roll Bounce\" confounds all expectations. Writer Norman Vance Jr. and director Malcolm D. Lee dare to suggest that winning may not be everything, that a father-and-son relationship may actually be more important than a skate-off, and that it's possible to set a film in 1978 without drowning it in nostalgia and dated fads. \"Roll Bounce\" sports Afros and bell-bottoms yet doesn't overdo them and always has the feeling of happening in the here and now.")
Times Staff WriterTeen pictures in which kids square off in a competition form a genre unto themselves, yet the warm and wise "Roll Bounce" confounds all expectations. Writer Norman Vance Jr. and director Malcolm D. Lee dare to suggest that winning may not be everything,...Tags: Meagan Good, Family, George Tillman, Jr., Family Vacations, Mike Epps
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'Baadasssss!'
![Back in 1971 Melvin Van Peebles, already one of the first black directors to have had a film in general release with "Watermelon Man" the year before, scorched screens across America with "Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song," a surreal odyssey in which Van Peebles played a pimp on the lam after becoming involved in the killing of a brutal cop.](http://www.calendarlive.com/media/thumbnails/story/2004-05/12809073.jpg "Back in 1971 Melvin Van Peebles, already one of the first black directors to have had a film in general release with "Watermelon Man\" the year before, scorched screens across America with \"Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song,\" a surreal odyssey in which Van Peebles played a pimp on the lam after becoming involved in the killing of a brutal cop.")
Times Staff WriterBack in 1971 Melvin Van Peebles, already one of the first black directors to have had a film in general release with "Watermelon Man" the year before, scorched screens across America with "Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song," a surreal odyssey in which Van...Tags: Vehicles, Joy Bryant, Arts and Culture, Cinema Industry, Earth, Wind & Fire (music group)
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'Holes'
Times Staff WriterHis Nobel Prize for literature notwithstanding, Yiddish author Isaac Bashevis Singer was passionate about the satisfactions of writing for young people. Children, he once explained, will not read something just because the New York Times tell them to....Tags: Patricia Arquette, Eartha Kitt, Plastic Surgeons, Shia LaBeouf, Sigourney Weaver
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Movie review: 'Walking Tall'
Tribune staff reporter2 stars (out of 4) In the movies as in life, is vigilante justice really justice? That's the question that plagued me throughout "Walking Tall," a remake of the 1973 hit movie of the same name, which spun off into two sequels and a television series....Tags: Tennessee, Tourism and Leisure, Movies, Johnny Knoxville, Casino and Gambling
Sep 23, 2005
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May 28, 2004
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Apr 18, 2003
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Apr 1, 2004
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