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April 10, 2009 News Post by Fernie Martinez
California Split Is the Raging Bull of Poker Movies
AFS double bill pairs Altman film with Ron Mann's biographical doc
"...A great poker film comes around as infrequently as a straight flush..."
Jan. 8, 2015 Screens Post by Fernie Martinez
'World Series of Poker 2008: Battle for the Bracelets'
"...Is poker still a viable game when there’s no actual money..."
Oct. 18, 2007 Sports Post by James Renovitch
The World Series of Poker Is Back
The betting and bluffing begins Tuesday July 28
"...It's time to set those DVR's, poker fans. Starting Tuesday, July 28, the World Series of..."
July 23, 2009 Sports Post by Fernie Martinez
Poker Face
The life cycle of man as deadpan farce in 'Somebody Up There Likes Me'
March 9, 2012 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt
Cowboy Poker
When Bush Marches on Washington, the Deck Gets Shuffled. Our Predictions:
"...Click here to view a larger PDF file (i.e.,..."
Oct. 27, 2000 News Feature by Robert Bryce
Know When to Hold 'Em
When Jay Rosenkrantz's poker doc got shuffled up, he got creative
"...Fold. It was a straightforward documentary, examining the online poker boom of the Aughties through the ups and downs..."
Dec. 27, 2013 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker
The Grand
There's some truly hilarious material (though not nearly enough) in this partially improvised movie about characters competing in a Las Vegas championship poker tournament.
"...characters who are competing in a Las Vegas championship poker tournament. A 20-minute package of those funny bits would..."
April 4, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Lucky You
This romantic drama is set against a Las Vegas background and stars Eric Bana and Drew Barrymore, but it rolls snake eyes all the way.
"...like Huck Cheever (Bana). Born into a family of poker royalty and, by all accounts, blessed with an uncanny..."
May 11, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt
Molly's Game
Aaron Sorkin's directorial debut plays a high stakes game with Jessica Chastain
"...her rise and fall as a runner of high-stakes poker games in the late Aughts, Sorkin seems to have..."
Dec. 22, 2017 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki
Phil Ivey Makes the 2009 WSOP November Nine
Ali in Zaire, Phelps in Beijing, Hendrix at Woodstock, and now Ivey in Vegas
"...already impressive performance at this years World Series of Poker, Phil Ivey has battled through a field of 6,494..."
July 16, 2009 Sports Post by Fernie Martinez
Rounders
"...engaging look at New York's underground world of high-stakes poker games, Rounders is hardly the straight flush we've been..."
Sept. 11, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
The Other Side of Hope
Searching for a better tomorrow in Aki Kaurismäki's droll tale of immigrants and restaurants
"...failing business, and gambles the proceeds in a high-stakes poker game for the money to purchase a run-down restaurant..."
Jan. 5, 2018 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Kevin Hart: What Now?
Comic plays to record crowd in Philadelphia
"...Ed Helms, Don Cheadle, and others at a high-stakes poker game. The wraparounds are directed by Tim Story, and..."
Oct. 21, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Runner Runner
A Princeton student and online gambler gets entangled with the operation's devious mastermind in Costa Rica.
"...Furst, a Princeton grad student who turns to online poker to pull himself out of ruinous debt. When his..."
Oct. 11, 2013 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones
City Island
This manic family comedy starring Andy Garcia and Julianna Margulies has a basic goodness of heart that is counteracted by clunky mechanics.
"...acting classes in the city under the cover of poker night with the boys. His haranguing wife, Joyce (Margulies,..."
April 16, 2010 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones
Teen Patti
In this Bollywood film, a reclusive math genius has an equation that could revolutionize probability theory and puts it into practice in the gambling dens of Mumbai.
"...mathematician tries to put it into practice in the poker games called teen patti played in the gambling dens..."
Feb. 26, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Fanboys
This shaggy comedy is an earnest, sweetly geeked tribute to fandom.
"...Huntington and Marquette, share a laconic acting style and poker-face resemblance, and their characters' rift isn't terribly interesting. But..."
Feb. 6, 2009 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones
Holly
Ron Livingston plays a lost soul in Cambodia who rescues a 12-year-old Vietnamese girl, who has been sold as a prostitute by her parents.
"...American expatriate in Cambodia stumbling his way from underground poker game to seedy bar in search of the perfect..."
Nov. 30, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt
The Music of Chance
"...leads the two into an unlikely partnership for a poker game with a pair of eccentric millionaires, Flower (Durning)..."
Sept. 17, 1993 Movie Review by Robert Faires
American Heart
"...the emotions of both. Furlong plays him with a poker face, one which ever so rarely flashes the child's..."
Aug. 13, 1993 Movie Review by Robert Faires
Playback: Red River Optimist John Wickham
Red River poker king John Wickham remains optimistic, Nazis stab concertgoers at Trailer Space, and Fun Fun Fun Fest gets its acre at Auditorium Shores
"...one block. I've got to be optimistic. You play poker? I'm all in." Nazis Clash with Concertgoers at Trailer..."
Aug. 14, 2015 Music Column by Kevin Curtin
Game Reviews
"...World Series of Poker 2008Activision $49.99..."
Oct. 19, 2007 Screens Feature by James Renovitch
Many Unanswered Questions in Officers' Deaths
A fatal motorcycle accident was preceded by a long afternoon of barhopping
"...was scheduled to be the last stop on a "poker run," a popular charity event during which motorcyclists make..."
Dec. 17, 2004 News Feature by Jordan Smith
Texas State Hold 'Em (Updated)
Will poker become taxable income in Texas?
"...(but don't deal 'em yet), because letting people play poker for money and taking a share for the house..."
May 2, 2007 News Post by Richard Whittaker
You Be the Judge
Sex, lies, and politics in the 331st District Court
"...asked the boy to teach her how to play poker. After 30 minutes she asked to play strip poker,..."
March 2, 2018 News Feature by Nina Hernandez
Lit-urday: The Noble Hustle
Colson Whitehead's latest is an underachiever
"...The Noble Hustle: Poker, Beef Jerky, and Death..."
Sept. 13, 2014 Books Post by Amy Kamp
The Common Law
Are the Texas Hold 'Em poker tournaments that I host in my home illegal?
"...Are the Texas Hold 'Em poker tournaments that I host in my home illegal?..."
July 1, 2005 Column by Luke Ellis
Free Will Astrology
Your weekly horoscope, September 8-14
"...Kasparov says war is "more like a game of poker than chess. On a chess board, the pieces are..."
Sept. 8, 2023 Column by Rob Brezsny
Blood Aces: The Wild Ride of Benny Binion, the Texas Gangster Who Created Vegas Poker
This biography of the gambling, murdering Binion captures his wild character without trying to make him likable
"...of Benny Binion, the Texas Gangster Who Created Vegas Pokerby Doug J. Swanson Viking, 368 pp., $27.95..."
