Tue, Apr 30, 2019
A portrait of the Dominican immigrants of New York in the '80s and '90s, as seen through a loving family whose youngest son, Felipe Lopez, became the top ranked high school basketball player in the nation and was hailed as 'The Dominican Michael Jordan'. Lopez's prospects seemed limitless. Embraced as an immigrant hero, then cast aside as an American failure when he did not live up to the enormous expectations, Felipe Lopez would eventually find happiness not as a basketball player, but as the man he was always meant to be.
Tue, Jul 2, 2019
The eye and mouth-opening tale of Takeru Kobayashi, the native of Nagano, Japan, who won the Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest six consecutive times, and Joey Chestnut, the American who emerged to dethrone the Japanese legend in 2007 and become the face of the sport. It's a story that's at turns outrageous and poignant, exploring the origins of the careers of Kobayashi and Chestnut, every bite of their head-to-head battles, as well as the no-holds-barred promotional efforts of Major League Eating, the organization that oversees the contest. It may well be a sport like no other - but as the film reveals, the competition was as real as anything you'll ever see on a field of play.