Category — Film

It took me a long time to corner Gucci Mane for an interview, but I finally caught up with the elusive, enigmatic Atlanta trap rapper and it was worth the chase. The Spring Breakers star talked about working with Harmony Korine, his unlikely friendship with NASCAR driver Denny Hamlin, his thoughts as a Falcons fan on the Michael Vick saga and why he thinks college athletes shouldn’t be paid.

Here’s my write-up of Win Win for the Year in Sports Media package in this week’s SI.

Spoke with Christian Bale about playing ex-contender Dickie Eklund in David O. Russell’s The Fighter in a Q&A for SI.com.

I tuned in with great interest to Kanye West’s 35-minute art film Runaway when it debuted Saturday via zone-flooding simulcast on MTV, BET, VH1, MTV2, MTV.com, BET.com and VH1.com. A big-ticket music video in the tradition of long-form clips like Moonwalker and Thriller and thematic musical films like The Wall and Purple Rain, the Kanye-directed piece is a culmination of several weeks of leaked tracks from the forthcoming My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy LP. The film’s teaser trailer (above), like any good teaser trailer, revealed little but promised much: it might be awesome or it might be awful, but it was certain to be spectacular in the literal sense. All bets were off, really. [Read more →]

I wrote about the best sports movies, TV shows, books and blogs of the past decade for SI.com’s Best of the 2000s package.

My review of James Toback’s new documentary on Mike Tyson for this week’s Sports Illustrated.