It's Dru III who hears his dad predict that once they feed into Buchtel High School, the local public high school, the Fab Four will have to split up because the program will put the short kid on junior varsity, and gets the rest excited about applying instead to a mostly white local Catholic high school, St. Vincent-St. Dru III is the film's breakout character, not just because McLaughlin, whose live-wire edge gives off Baby Tupac vibes, is such an exciting actor, but because the character is a real life scene-stealer: a small guy with a big heart, a warrior's nerve, and the skills to back up his bravado. ![]() It's the tale of four friends, one of whom happens to be LeBron James.īesides James, there's Sian Cotton ( Khalil Everage), whose wit as as fast as his reflexes Willie McGee (Avery Wills), a hardy ally and a bit of a daredevil and Dru Joyce III ( Caleb McLaughlin), whose thoughtful and rock-steady dad Dru II ( Wood Harris) coaches their team. The movie is not about LeBron James and everyone else. All get exciting, funny, or sorrowful moments. They call themselves the Fab Four. Their days and nights revolve around basketball: when they aren't actually on the paint, they're playing basketball video games and fantasizing about their pro ball careers. The screenwriters distribute their attention democratically among the four. They're a tight crew from a working class neighborhood. "Buzz" Kissinger (" Friday Night Lights"),"Shooting Stars" follows the "Boyz" template, giving us a prologue-so packed with detail it's practically a compacted first act-with James and his friends as elementary schoolers, then jumps ahead to follow them through four years of high school. ![]() Flowers, Tony Rettenmaier and Juel Taylor from the bestseller by James and H.G. It's about what happens to a group of close friends when one of them turns out to be so great at his favorite thing that it would be a sin not to let him move on in life and keep doing it at the level his talent deserves. This is one of the great films about young male friendship, right up there with "I Vitelloni," " Boyz N the Hood," " Mean Streets," "Cooley High," " The Wood," and "Stand By Me."ĭirected by Chris Robinson, who helmed the Netflix movie " Beats" and came up through TV ads, and adapted by Frank E. Throw in Hugh Grant as a smarmy love-rat, Colin Firth as a bumbling gentleman and a script co-written by Richard Curtis, and you’ve got romcom royalty.But it's ultimately not about basketball, or even sports. Zellweger’s performance – British accent and all – is just highly believable her Bridget is one of us (although how an assistant at a publishing house can afford to live alone in a one-bedroom flat in London Bridge requires a little suspension of disbelief). ![]() That being said, it remains a charming and deeply relatable film, thanks mostly to double-Oscar-winner Renée Zellweger, who injects a lovable charm into her portrayal of the almost perennially unlucky-in-love Bridget. ‘Bridget Jones, wanton sex goddess, with a very bad man between her thighs…’īased on Helen Fielding’s newspaper-column-turned-bestselling-book about a loveable but perpetually single thirtysomething living in London, Bridget Jones’s Diary is very much a product of its time (hopefully today, we wouldn’t dare consider Bridget overweight or the fact that she’s single in her thirties a problem). □ The 100 best romantic films of all-time Written by Dave Calhoun, Cath Clarke, Tom Huddleston, Kate Lloyd, Andy Kryza, Phil de Semlyen, Alim Kheraj & Matthew Singer Even if you’re one of those people who pretends not to like romcoms, you’ll surely find something to love here. We considered all of it when compiling this list of the best romcoms of all time. Some are cynical, while others are just straight-up silly. Some are sophisticated, others saccharine. But as they say, love is a many-splendoured thing, and so are romcoms. ![]() Anyone who’s ever been in love, or wished to be in love, knows the odd things it can do to a person – there’s no emotion quite like it. In the privacy of their homes, though, those same snobs are surely drawing the blinds and silencing their phones whenever happening across a Nancy Meyers or Nora Ephron movie on cable during a lazy weekend afternoon.ĭo away with cinematic pretensions and it’s not hard to understand the enduring appeal of the romcom. Who doesn’t love a great romantic comedy? Sure, plenty of filmgoers stick their noses up at the genre, claiming they’d never degrade their highfalutin sensibilities by sitting through an insipid ‘chick flick’.
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