THE BULLETIN • JUNE 24 - 30, 2021
TV • PAGE 25
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“Chivas: El rebaño sagrado”
This four-part documentary
series from Mexico chronicles one
memorable season with that country’s
homegrown soccer club, the Chivas of
Guadalajara, as this legendary franchise
tries to rise up from the ashes following
five consecutive losing seasons, several
off-field scandals and the death of the
team’s owner. (ORIGINAL)
BY JAY BOBBIN
“Goldfinger”
“The Offence”
“The Wind and the Lion”
“Movie: Mary J Blige’s My Life”
“Movie: Testament of Youth”
The life and career of the nine-time
Grammy-winning recording artist
and Academy Award-nominated
singer and actress are in the spotlight
in this documentary from Oscar-
winning director Vanessa Roth
(“Freeheld”), which chronicles her
many accomplishments and the demons
she wrestled with while making her
trailblazing 1994 album “My Life.”
(ORIGINAL)
From the U.K. and director James
Kent (“The Secret Diaries of Miss
Anne Lister”) comes this 2014
biographical drama that stars Oscar
winner Alicia Vikander (“The Danish
Girl”) as Vera Brittain, a young
Englishwoman who postpones her
studies to serve as a nurse during
World War I. The talented cast also
includes Kit Harington, Taron Egerton
and Emily Watson.
“Movie: The Tomorrow War”
From director Chris McKay (“The
Lego Movie”) comes this sci-fi drama
set in the year 2051, where time
travelers from 30 years in the future
warn mankind that a losing battle
against a deadly alien species is in
their future. Chris Pratt stars as a man
who teams up with a scientist and his
estranged father to try to rewrite the
planet’s fate. (ORIGINAL)
BEST SEAN CONNERY MOVIES
“Darby O’Gill and the Little People” (1959)
As much as for the movie itself, this Walt Disney
production was important in Connery’s career as a
project that got him noticed when casting was being
done later for a certain role that involved the number
007.
“Marnie” (1964) In and around his James Bond
work, Connery diversified by working with Alfred
Hitchcock on this melodrama – which Turner Classic
Movies shows Sunday, June 27 – about a businessman
with a strong interest in a troubled employee (Tippi
Hedren).
“Goldfinger” (1964) Most Bond purists concur
this is the first 007 screen adventure that has it all,
including a deftly balanced Connery performance
that blends suave charm and rugged action smoothly.
“The Hill” (1965) The long association of Connery
and director Sidney Lumet began with this grueling
drama of World War II military prisoners forced to
do hard labor.
“The Offence” (1973) Connery’s desire to get off
the “star” pedestal manifested itself in this gritty police
drama, again under Sidney Lumet’s direction, about
a London police detective whose anger goes too far
when he interrogates a suspect.
“Murder on the Orient Express” (1974) One
of many familiar faces in this great staging of the
Agatha Christie mystery, Connery makes his presence
known as one of the suspects questioned by Hercule
Poirot (Albert Finney).
“The Wind and the Lion” (1975) Connery
is superb as a Middle Eastern renegade who invites
large-scale trouble by kidnapping an American
(Candice Bergen).
“The Man Who Would Be King” (1975)
Originally envisioned for such stars as Clark Gable
and Humphrey Bogart, this John Huston-directed
Rudyard Kipling adaptation was delayed many years,
which was great news for Connery and Michael Caine
in playing soldiers of fortune in India.
“Robin and Marian” (1976) This wonderfully
mature take on the Robin Hood legend cast Connery
opposite Audrey Hepburn (who played, of course, his
true love Maid Marian).
“Outland” (1981) Pretty much “High Noon” on
another planet, this underrated sci-fi tale features
Connery as a lawman who targets a sly profiteer
(Peter Boyle).
“The Untouchables” (1987) Oscar came calling
for Connery, and deservedly so, for his portrayal of
a Chicago beat cop whose street smarts go a long
way in helping U.S. Treasury man Eliot Ness (Kevin
Costner) take down Al Capone (Robert De Niro).
“The Hunt for Red October” (1990) Connery
stepped in for the originally cast Klaus Maria
Brandauer in Tom Clancy’s tale of a Russian submarine
whose captain may be trying to defect, drawing CIA
analyst Jack Ryan (Alec Baldwin) into the matter.
“The Rock” (1996) If Connery could make such a
great secret agent, why not an equally fine criminal?
He could, as he proved in this Jerry Bruckheimer-
produced action fest in which he plays a convict
sprung to help a bookish FBI agent (Nicolas Cage)
thwart a renegade general (Ed Harris) threatening San
Francisco, using Alcatraz as a base.
“Entrapment” (1999) One of Connery’s best
later roles was supplied by this adventure about a
master criminal supposedly buying into an insurance
investigator’s (Catherine Zeta-Jones) scheme to snare
him.