PAGE 8 • TV
THE BULLETIN • APRIL 8 - 14, 2021
What’s Available NOW On
“Big Shot” (April 16)
David E. Kelley (“Big Little Lies,” “The
Undoing”) is among the creative forces
behind this fish-out-of-water dramedy
about a college basketball coach (John
Stamos, “Fuller House”) forced to take a
gig with an elite girls private high school
after his hot temper got him dropped from
his previous job. Jessalyn Gilsig (“Glee”)
and Yvette Nicole Brown (“Community”)
also star. (ORIGINAL)
BY GEORGE DICKIE
“The Kid Who Would Be King”
Writer-director Joe Cornish’s 2019
British-American fantasy stars Louis
Ashbourne Serkis (son of actor Andy
Serkis) as 12-year-old Alex, who struggles
with bullies and other adolescent woes
when he stumbles across an old sword at
a construction site. The blade turns out
to be Excalibur, King Arthur’s legendary
weapon, and Alex is destined to protect the
world from Morgana (Rebecca Ferguson),
an evil enchantress.
“Earth Moods” (April 16)
Get ready to mellow out. From the
folks at National Geographic comes this
documentary series that takes viewers
on what the streaming service calls “the
ultimate retreat” — to glaciers, deserts,
rainforests, metropolises and other colorful
and calming corners of the world in an
escape from the cacophony of everyday
life. (ORIGINAL)
“Rio” (April 16)
This colorful 2011 animated fantasy
reunites — vocally, anyway — Anne
Hathaway and Jesse Eisenberg, who played
siblings on “Get Real” before their movie
fame. A macaw (voice by Eisenberg) is
taken to Brazil, potentially to mate with
another of the last of their kind (voice by
Hathaway). As might be expected, it’s not
that simple. George Lopez, Jane Lynch and
Jamie Foxx are also heard.
Emilio Estevez
OF ‘THE MIGHTY DUCKS: GAME CHANGERS’ ON DISNEY+
After all these years of working
behind the camera, how has it
affected your acting?
I’m very patient with myself ... and
directors. You know, I’ve been very
fortunate to be able to work on both
sides of the camera. And I think as
having directed primarily for the
past 25 years, I think that I have a
different appreciation now as an
actor. When I show up on set, I’m
aware of what the director is going
through and all the steps that have
been taken to make sure that you
are successful on any particular day.
And so I find that I am probably now
a director’s best friend on set and
closest ally because I know to what
great detail directors have to go
through on any given day on set. So
I think it’s informed how I operate on
a daily basis as an actor.
And I’ll tell you, Danny DeVito once
said, “Directing is like death by a
thousand questions.” And so on this
particular project, it was great to
not have to be in the director’s chair,
especially during the time of COVID.
Why do you think the “Mighty
Ducks” franchise has endured
for so long, and what do you
think the stories have to say
about the people of the Upper
Midwest and their values?
There’s just nothing like it and the
Midwest in general. I mean, my
dad’s from Ohio, Dayton. My mom’s
from Cinci. So I feel so at home in
the Midwest, probably more so than
I do in either coast. And I think the
show speaks to that.