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Champions, Game night and The Samuel Project

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  Hello everyone from rainy south Texas.  It was a perfect day to watch a movie but I watched a few this weekend so let's get started.   First, we have the film Champions.                                                           Champions is a new Woody Harrelson film that takes place in Des Moines, Iowa.  He plays a coach named Marcus.  He is a coach with a minor league basketball league and pushes his coach loses his job and also hits a police car while he is drunk.   When he appears in court the judge orders him to coach a special needs basketball team.  What ensues is mayhem, comedy, and an inspirational story that will melt your heart.  I have a special needs son, so this story is important to me.  It also has a love story and many emotional moments throughout the film.  This is directed by Bobby Farrelly if you have seen the other films by the Farrelly brothers then you know what kind of film this is.  It is a silly comedy with a great story.  It has language throughout the

April 9th review

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Hello everyone this is not my normal Easter review blog, but I thought I would change it up this year.  Here are 4 movies I will be reviewing this week.   Let's start with Air, I saw this film with my daughter this past week and it is an amazing film that chronicles the signing of Michael Jordan to his first shoe deal Sonny Vaccaro.   Sonny who is played by Matt Damon is well-acted and very entertaining.  It is good to see Chris Tucker come back to movie theaters in this film and he really nails the role as Howard White who is one of the only African American agents at NIKE at the time.  Ben Affleck plays Phil Knight the notorious CEO of NIKE.   Overall the film is excellent I am just surprised it wasn't put in the December films because this could be a film that may be up for awards by the end of the year.  I would highly recommend it,  but if you are going to watch it with your family, I wouldn't because of the language throughout the film.  But for film critics, it is an