Veronica Santiago and Niel Estep take a look at Blades of Glory in this episode of FilmCrunch.
Perhaps nowhere in sports is the marriage of athleticism and grace more evident than in the arena of world champion pairs figure skating—the lifts, the jumps, the routines. It’s an elegant world, a rarefied universe, a noble place populated by the crème de la crème of skating elite. Well, it used to be. When the macho, swaggering Chazz Michael Michaels takes to the rink, he is the rock star of the arena, leaving a trail of thrashed ice and shrieking female fans in his wake. The only competitor who can match Michaels’ scores is the driven former child prodigy, Jimmy MacElroy. Spotted as a youth executing triple lutzes on the frozen pond of an orphanage, MacElroy was whisked away to days of endless training, and now stands as the picture of poise, the personification of the highest ideals of the men’s sport. Michaels and MacElroy have met in finals rounds before, but their latest head-to-head at the World Championships—when they tie for first—is more than either one can bear, and their longstanding rivalry erupts into a no-holds-barred fight. The ensuing brawl not only sets fire to the World Championship’s helpless mascot, but lands both athletes in hot water: Chazz and Jimmy are called before the sport’s governing board, stripped of their gold medals and banned from the sport for life. Now, three-and-a-half years later, both men are still trying to find their way in a world without competitive skating. Michaels has devolved into a drunken party machine, skating as a costumed evil wizard in a kiddie ice review, and MacElroy has been banished to the shoe department of a chain sporting goods store. But then, inspiration (in the form of an over-friendly, former stalker of Jimmy’s) strikes, and a loophole emerges. To skate again, all Chazz and Jimmy have to do is set aside their long festering hatred of one another and join forces—as the first male/male figure skating pair to compete in the history of the sport.
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In this episode of FilmCrunch, Veronica santiago and Neil Estep review Hairspray, along with the DVD release of Premonition. Neil also hits us with a 60 second review of I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry.
Veronica Santiago and Neil Estep review The Number 23 in this episode of FilmCrunch. Spiraling into a dark obsession with the number 23, Walter Sparrow twists his once idyllic life into an inferno of psychological torture that could possibly lead to his death as well as the deaths of his loved ones. Spurred on by a mysterious novel, The Number 23, that he doesn’t dare put down, Walter is forced to unlock the secrets of his past before he can continue his future with his wife, Agatha, and teenage son, Robin.
Thoughts?
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Ah, but it’s not too late to turn things around, and there’s probably no better place to cure Singh of what ails him than TPC Boston, the venue for the Deutsche Bank Championship, which begins Friday. In five appearances here, Singh has two wins - including last year - a second, and a fourth.
The annual stop in Norton could serve as Singh’s ultimate slump-buster.
“I’ve always played well in Boston, I like playing there,’’ Singh said.
He almost didn’t make it here this year. Singh missed his sixth cut of the season last week at The Barclays, jeopardizing his spot in the FedEx Cup standings inside the top 100, which is the number who qualify for the second playoff event. Singh has slipped to 78th on the points list, and will need a positive
showing here to advance to next week’s BMW Championship, reserved for the top 70. The Tour Championship follows, a tournament only the top 30 make. It’s an event Singh has missed just once (1994) in his previous 16 full seasons on tour.
He’s dealt with his share of controversy and might not have the biggest fan club, but this much is indisputable: Singh is known for one of the best work ethics on tour, and he’s been a title-taking, money-making machine. Since joining the tour in 1993, he’s only had three seasons in which he didn’t win a tour event (1994, 1996, 2001), and he’s finished lower than 17th on the money list just once, racking up more than $60 million in career earnings. A strong case can be made that this decade, Singh has been the best player in the world not named Tiger Woods. Since 2000, he’s won more tournaments and more money than Phil Mickelson, and his average finish on the season-ending money list is 2.67, including three money titles. Mickelson never has won a PGA Tour money title, and his average money list finish since 2000 is 6.78.
Before this year, Singh has dazzled since turning 40. His 22 victories (out of 34) are the most in tour history by an over-40 player, five more than Sam Snead’s 17. The last of Singh’s three majors, the 2004 PGA Championship, also came in his 40s.
How to explain this year, then? The money (more than $1.2 million) is nice, but Singh only has three top-10 finishes, nothing higher than a tie for sixth. He’s also dropped to No. 14 in the world rankings - this time last year, he was third.
]]>Neil Estep reviews the theatrical release of TMNT - with one minute on the clock - in this FilmCrunch movie review.
]]>Veronica Santiago and Neil Estep review the theatrical release of Spider-Man 3, the DVD release of Music & Lyrics, and also talk about who they would want to play them if a movie was made about their lives - and then hit the street to ask the masses.
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