The Blind Side

The Blind side is a movie about Michael Oher who was homeless and was pretty much functionally illiterate. And got put in a private school and was found by a rich white family who takes him in and treats him like a family member he starts to play football. Struggles to play football does not know the game that well till his adapted mother goes and gives him a motivational speech about protecting his teammates blind side. He excels in football and College offers start to flow in he picks Ole Miss which is where his family went to college people start to think they took him in to just get him to go to Ole Miss. But he sees how much they really love him and he goes to Ole Miss. Michael Oher is the 23rd pick of the NFL draft and is selected by the Baltimore Ravens where he still plays the game he has grown to love football. A true rags to riches story where all he needed is one real chance. Sandra Bullock Leigh Anne Tuohy the mother of the family who takes him in plays an amazing part and is really phenomenal in her part. The movie has allot long emotional shots that are great and help the movie allot it is just a really intresting movie and a good example of the human spirit.
Director: John Lee Hancock
Writer: John Lee Hancock ( written by) Michael Lewis (Book)
Release Date: Nov 21 2009 (USA)
Genre: Documentary Sport Drama

Academy Awards, USA
Year	Result	Award	Category/Recipient(s)
2010	Won	Oscar	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role Sandra Bullock
	Nominated	Oscar	Best Motion Picture of the Year Gil Netter Andrew A. Kosove Broderick Johnson
Black Reel Awards
Year	Result	Award	Category/Recipient(s)
2010	Nominated	Black Reel	Best Actor Quinton Aaron
			Best Breakthrough Performance Quinton Aaron
			Best Film
			Best Screenplay, Original or Adapted John Lee Hancock
Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards
Year	Result	Award	Category/Recipient(s)
2010	Won	Critics Choice Award	Best Actress Sandra Bullock Tied with Meryl Streep for Julie & Julia (2009).
	Nominated	Critics Choice Award	Best Young Actor/Actress Jae Head
Golden Globes, USA
Year	Result	Award	Category/Recipient(s)
2010	Won	Golden Globe	Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama Sandra Bullock
Image Awards
Year	Result	Award	Category/Recipient(s)
2010	Nominated	Image Award	Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture Quinton Aaron
			Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture Sandra Bullock
			Outstanding Motion Picture
			Outstanding Writing in a Motion Picture (Theatrical or Television) John Lee Hancock
Phoenix Film Critics Society Awards
Year	Result	Award	Category/Recipient(s)
2009	Won	PFCS Award	Best Performance by a Youth - Male Jae Head
Screen Actors Guild Awards
Year	Result	Award	Category/Recipient(s)
2010	Won	Actor	Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role Sandra Bullock
Washington DC Area Film Critics Association Awards
Year	Result	Award	Category/Recipient(s)
2009	Nominated	WAFCA Award	Best Actress Sandra Bullock
			Best Screenplay, Adapted John Lee Hancock

Cast

(Cast overview, first billed only)

	Sandra Bullock	...	Leigh Anne Tuohy
	Tim McGraw	...	Sean Tuohy
	Quinton Aaron	...	Michael Oher
	Jae Head	...	S.J. Tuohy
	Lily Collins	...	Collins Tuohy
	Ray McKinnon	...	Coach Burt Cotton
	Kim Dickens	...	Mrs. Boswell
	Adriane Lenox	...	Denise Oher
	Kathy Bates	...	Miss Sue
	Catherine Dyer	...	Mrs. Smith
	Andy Stahl	...	Principal Sandstrom
	Tom Nowicki	...	Literature Teacher
	Libby Whittemore	...	Sarcastic Teacher
	Brian Hollan	...	Jay Collins
	Melody Weintraub	...	History Teacher

Fidel The Untold Story

A movie about Fidel Castro the dictator of Cuba. From his childhood of sugarcane farmer to his studies as a student and his imprisonment from trying to overthrow the US sanctioned dictator Batista. Leaving Cuba for Mexico to gain support for the overthrow of Batista to actually doing it and what he has done for Cuban people. The relationship with Soviet Union during the cold war and the bay of pigs disaster to overthrow him and the Elian Gonzalez times.The movie is very powerful in both ways of the good and bad of Fidel Castro what the blockade of the U.S.A has done to Cuba and how Fidel set up agreements with Canada and other European and African countries such as South Africa and Namibia which he helped liberate during Apartheid. He went to Harlem during a trip to the United Nations and met Malcolm X and the Actors and others from America that have met him.Castro is a man who has stood by his convictions as a revelatory and a socialist for over 51 years and still stands by them. The movie is very well put together with opinions from both sides and the footage of Fidel is very powerful in some parts. Edited really well to fit the story at certain times the Director made a very good argument on both sides and stayed neutral it seems throughout the movie.....
Director: Estela Bravo
Genre: Documentary History

Urbanworld Film Festival
Year	Result	Award	Category/Recipient(s)
2001	Won	Honorable Mention	Best Documentary Estela Bravo For distinguished achievement for excellence in documentary filmmaking.

Cast

(Credited cast)

	Fidel Castro	...	Himself
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
	Muhammad Ali	...	Himself
	Harry Belafonte	...	Himself
	Angela Davis	...	Herself
	Elián González	...	Himself
	Nelson Mandela	...	Himself
	Ted Turner	...	Himself
	Vlasta Vrana	...	Narrator (voice)
	Alice Walker	...	Herself

Slap Shot

A classic Cult sports movie that is built around a hockey team the Charlestown Chiefs. The chiefs are a bad team that is about to fold where the owner wants nothing to do with them. Paul Newman who is Reggie in this movie is the coach and a player on the team. The mill in the city is closing so they cant survive in Charlestown anymore. Reggie comes up with the Idea to play goon hockey and just try to beat everyone up to put butts in the seats. To keep his players moral up he feeds some false information about the sell of the Chiefs to a retirement community in Florida. The chiefs start winning with this new style. The Chiefs make the championship but after talking to his best player who refuses to fight he wants a good clean old fashion hockey game. Well the team they are playing the Syracuse Bulldogs have other ideas and bring back a bunch of old goons and try to get chiefs to fight first half they will not fight the second half they come out and start fighting the Bulldogs have to forfeit the game after the chiefs best player Ned Braden who refuses to fight comes out to center ice and starts to strip one of the goons from the Bulldogs starts to push and pull on a referee who actually makes the Bulldogs forfeit the game.
Director: George Roy Hill
Writer: Nancy Dowd
Release Date: Feb 25th 1977 (USA)
Genre: Sport Comedy Drama

Awards of the Japanese Academy
Year	Result	Award	Category/Recipient(s)
1978	Nominated	Award of the Japanese Academy	Best Foreign Language Film
Hochi Film Awards
Year	Result	Award	Category/Recipient(s)
1977	Won	Hochi Film Award	Best Foreign Language Film George Roy Hill
Writers Guild of America, USA
Year	Result	Award	Category/Recipient(s)
1978	Nominated	WGA Award (Screen)	Best Comedy Written Directly for the Screen Nancy Dowd

Cast

(Cast overview, first billed only)

	Paul Newman	...	Reggie 'Reg' Dunlop
	Strother Martin	...	Joe McGrath
	Michael Ontkean	...	Ned Braden
	Jennifer Warren	...	Francine Dunlop
	Lindsay Crouse	...	Lily Braden
	Jerry Houser	...	Dave 'Killer' Carlson
	Andrew Duncan	...	Jim Carr
	Jeff Carlson	...	Jeff Hanson
	Steve Carlson	...	Steve Hanson
	David Hanson	...	Jack Hanson
	Yvon Barrette	...	Denis Lemieux
	Allan F. Nicholls	...	Johnny Upton (as Allan Nicholls)
	Brad Sullivan	...	Morris 'Mo' Wanchuk
	Stephen Mendillo	...	Jim Ahern

CSA: Confederate States of America

This movie is about what could of really happened if the south would of won the civil war. With slaves today and some commricals and infomricals of what we might see on tv today. Like Abe Lincoln would of been jailed and exiled to Canada and the USA and Canada having a cold war and there own Berlin wall type wall put up between the 2 countries as Canada would refuse to give the slaves back to America. The CSA taking over Mexico and going into South America taking over the worlds Cotton. Or just going to war with Japan and the CSA bombing Japan first instead of them getting the United States Involved or Endorsing Hitler in WW2 instead of fighting against Germany. One of the CSA politcans runs for president and there is parody on Clinton's problems only he is accused of having black blood which cost him the election and then he commits sucide and DNA results find out he does not have any black in him. The movie is a muckmentry which is really gruesome and could very well actually have turned out to be true if the south would of won.
Director: Kevin Willmott
Writer: Kevin Willmott (screenplay)
Release Date: Jan 2004 USA SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL
Genre: Comedy Drama Mockumentry

BendFilm Festival
Year	Result	Award	Category/Recipient(s)
2005	Won	Special Jury Prize	Kevin Willmott
Fantasporto
Year	Result	Award	Category/Recipient(s)
2005	Nominated	International Fantasy Film Award	Best Film Kevin Willmott

Cast

(Cast overview, first billed only)

	Greg Kirsch	...	Confederate Family Dad
	Renee Patrick	...	Confederate Family Mom
	Molly Graham	...	Confederate Family Child
	William Willmott	...	Confederate Family Slave / Frederick Douglas (voice) (as Will Willmott)
	Rupert Pate	...	Sherman Hoyle
	Evamarii Johnson	...	Patricia Johnson
	Greg Hurd	...	Mr. Johnson
	Ryan L. Carroll	...	Bobby
	Don Carlton	...	Colonel Bloodhound
	Kevin McKinney	...	Blackface Abraham Lincoln
	Will Averill	...	Blackface Harriet Tubman
	Arlo Kasper	...	Old Abraham Lincoln
	Joe Bugni	...	Car Guy No. 1
	Troy Moore	...	Car Guy No. 2
	Jennifer Coville	...	Daisie