S.K.o.S.

We had a documentary festival here in Toronto that wrapped up yesterday. I saw a bunch of stuff, nothing amazing, but some of it was decent. 112 Weddings - A guy who shoots wedding videos decides to check back in on all the couples to see how they're doing now, and the movie covers about ten couples. Admittedly I was looking for some train wreck stuff, and two of the couples here are no longer together, but I ended up feeling bad for wanting to see it. Pretty painful to watch. I think my favorite segment was this couple where the wife ended up fighting clinical depression and didn't leave the house for over a year, which is obviously really bad, and even here she's still really down on herself, but it's clear that her husband still loves her and wants to make it work. The message that keeps coming up over and over is "we had no idea what we were getting ourselves into," even from the happy couples. Everything Will Be - This was about Vancouver's Chinatown. It focuses on about six or seven people - old woman who sells newspapers out on the street, security guy who shoos away homeless people, white guy who owns a cheese store that's been in his family for two generations, woman who owns a tea store, young artist who's gotten together enough money to be able to rent a store for one year, and a bunch of others. There was this interesting bar where they made drinks incorporating Chinese medicinal principles or something. Like hitting tuning forks and holding them against the glass so the water molecules can "absorb the energy". The whole idea is that this neighborhood is on its way out and condos are on their way in, and in a few decades it might not exist any more, so the movie is kind of a historical document. Meet The Patels - East Indian guy in his early 30s gets out of a relationship and decides to let his parents play matchmaker for him. The movie's shot by his younger sister. The family lives in the U.S., I think it was West Coast somewhere, but he ends up going on dates all over North America. Did you know in the modern Indian culture, they actually have resume-style documents that they pass around for this kind of thing? The guy's actually a comedian, and they don't make the movie into one big stand-up routine or anything, but he has an engaging personality (in spite of not doing too well on most of his dates) and there's a healthy dose of humor. Rich Hill - Won a grand jury prize at Sundance. This is about three kids growing up in a small, poor town. None of them are especially smart (there's some juggalo stuff - sorry to any juggalos who may be reading), their houses are in bad shape, and these kids probably don't have much of a future, but they're clearly good people, have families that love them, and everything is very beautifully shot and scored. Great example of making a potentially ugly, depressing subject into something that's at least a little uplifting. Judgment In Hungary - About the murder trial of four neo-Nazis accused of killing a bunch of Romanian gypsies in Hungary, including children. The judicial system is such that one judge hears everything and makes the final decision on his own, same as the Oscar Pistorius trial. The hook is that some of the authorities seem to feel the same way as the accused, so there are police reports that are incomplete or very poorly filled out (there's one where the cause of death is listed as "smoke inhalation" for someone who had a bullet wound in their head) and the camera even catches people sharing smiles with the defendants when they're supposed to be impartial. To be honest, though, I found it pretty slow.

I was confused by the Air Jordan logos on Batista's boots. Not sure if Nike actually makes wrestling boots or if he was wearing sneakers with some kind of leather slip-on over top of them.

Couple of things on the camera work in the 6-man: Liked that they didn't show Rollins setting up his dives, so he seemed to fly in from out of nowhere both times. Did not like that they cut back to the ring for a bit during the crowd brawl, which reminded us that Batista and Reigns were lying there doing nothing for a very, very long time.

Next month at Payback, Cena vs. Little Johnny. "Cena is literally beating sense into this child!"

Spoilering just in case:

3 things that need fixing: - you need a tiebreaker - you can't have Amazing Spider-Man 2 on your lists any more, since it was released today - your Rotten Tomatoes list has 22 Jump Street at #7 and #10

Nah. Some people in other countries could've seen it in theatres before the US release date too, right?

So the recording wasn't illegal after all, and it sounds like Stiviano wanted to take down Sterling for being a racist while still staying in his good graces as much as possible to keep receiving exorbitant gifts, but was not terribly smart about it.

Sure, as long as you don't touch the lists.

Amazing Spider-Man 2 is now off the table for list inclusion. I'll let Paco's entry slide.

If it helps, there's gonna be this movie called Tammy coming out too.

If you've seen the documentary Head Games, there's this part where Nowitski is doing a talk on concussions and completely eviscerates this high school coach who is trying to say they're not a big deal. Something like "I don't want to say what I'm actually thinking, because I'm concerned that you might lose your job." Wrestlers finding success outside of wrestling just makes me so happy for some reason. I felt the same way when Brock won his UFC title, actually.

Even a 5-game Miami-Toronto series would be a moral victory since Miami has never lost to Toronto since Lebron joined the team.

They'd all get stomped by Transformers anyway... probably.

Honest reason is that I looked up the info on it one time, and from then on I got it into my head that it starred Rebel Wilson and therefore never gave it serious consideration.

"Household debt skyrockets as box office records fall"

Mike, you only need 15 movies on each list. You can pull out the 5 that you feel least confident about from each.

Okay, just so no one can nitpick later - I'm taking this as $188 million. $188,000,000 million is $188 trillion.

That's pretty glaringly inconsistent, unless there was absolutely zero credible evidence in those two lawsuits.

Yep. Magic Johnson and the Guggenheim Group have already said they wanna buy it. Ha, if Magic Johnson ends up as the new owner, the conspiracy theorists are gonna have a field day. edit: If Alfredo's right, then never mind.

So is "the league will attempt to force a sale of the Clippers" just a blustery way of saying "the league will ask Sterling to sell the Clippers" or can they actually force him to sell? Would it be based on that three-quarters owners vote that was mentioned before?

DreamBroken was entrant #18. Add GIMME THE LOOT to the prizes.

Lots of people didn't know he was a racist until this past weekend. I know I didn't.

Also, a "league insider" in Kuetsar's ESPN link says: The reason that so many people know he's a racist is that his private conversation was illegally taped, but the court of public opinion doesn't care as much about that part. I think he's got to be able to have some legal recourse against whoever taped the conversation or whoever released it - assuming it can be proven who those people are - but it doesn't sound like that's going to get him out of whatever the NBA decides the punishment should be.

I'm wondering how much more difficult it becomes for the NBA to do anything if Sterling just says that's not him on the recording.