Tag: basketball movie

‘Boogie’: The well-intentioned attempts don’t run up the cinematic scoreboard

Jeff Mitchell

“Boogie” – “Maybe we should start at the beginning so you can get some context.” – Melvin (Mike Moh) During the second act of writer/director Eddie Huang’s basketball film, Melvin (Moh), an aggressive sport agent, formulates a plan for Alfred ‘Boogie’ Chin (Taylor Takahashi) and utters the aforementioned statement, but this declaration serves this movie’s opening scene too. Huang’s picture starts – in 2001 – inside a modest Queens, N.Y. fortune teller’s parlor, and a young couple – clearly on edge – argue, bicker, and ponder their relationship and future. …

Despite some laughs, ‘Uncle Drew’ misses and misses

Jeff Mitchell

“Uncle Drew” – Basketball is a team sport, but one individual point guard stands out.  He stands above all others who played before and after him. Uncle Drew (Kyrie Irving). Don’t just take this critic’s word for it.  Ask NBA greats George Gervin, Dikembe Mutombo, Jerry West, David Robinson, and Steve Nash (to name a few), as they rave about Drew’s gifts on the court during the opening moments of director Charles Stone III’s (“Drumline” (2002), “Mr. 3000” (2004)) movie “Uncle Drew”.   Keep in mind that these basketball greats speak…