Poker movie news
If there's one thing I love as much as poker, it's movies. Seriously, if I'm watching TV, it's either poker or something on one of the countless movie channels I get with my Dish Network "every damn channel they make" package. I try to be picky about the movies I watch (I am proud to say that to this day, I still I have not seen Footloose), but if I find my self watching a real stinker, I still have to watch it until the end. Just something about me that wants to see how it all winds up.
Anyway, the best of both worlds is the poker movie. The only problem is that there just aren't very many of them. I absolutely loved Rounders, and I'm ashamed to say I still haven't seen The Cincinnati Kid. I've also caught Shade, which doesn't really have much to do with poker, in my opinion, and what little it has is very unrealistic, and The Big Blind, which was made by a poker player with his poker winnings (it's a decent, albeit amateurish film about the world surrounding poker, but it could have been much better if it had incorporated more of the drama that comes with the turn of the cards). Still, for all its flaws, Rounders is the best in my book, but there is one movie which could rival it. High Roller (formerly titled Stuey) is a biopic about the legendary Stu Ungar that has made it to a few film festivals but has been otherwise unseen. But word came this week that it is finally going to get the wide audience it deserves.
High Roller will premiere on the Starz channel on Jan. 30, and I am so glad I get that channel. I have been very impatiently waiting to see this film, mostly because I really want to know more about Stu Ungar. If you don't get Starz, you can still get your chance to see it when it is released on DVD March 15.
For more info, you can see the story about the Starz airing, there's a story at Poker Gazette. You can find it by clicking here.
You can also read the New Line Cinema press release about the DVD here.
Anyway, the best of both worlds is the poker movie. The only problem is that there just aren't very many of them. I absolutely loved Rounders, and I'm ashamed to say I still haven't seen The Cincinnati Kid. I've also caught Shade, which doesn't really have much to do with poker, in my opinion, and what little it has is very unrealistic, and The Big Blind, which was made by a poker player with his poker winnings (it's a decent, albeit amateurish film about the world surrounding poker, but it could have been much better if it had incorporated more of the drama that comes with the turn of the cards). Still, for all its flaws, Rounders is the best in my book, but there is one movie which could rival it. High Roller (formerly titled Stuey) is a biopic about the legendary Stu Ungar that has made it to a few film festivals but has been otherwise unseen. But word came this week that it is finally going to get the wide audience it deserves.
High Roller will premiere on the Starz channel on Jan. 30, and I am so glad I get that channel. I have been very impatiently waiting to see this film, mostly because I really want to know more about Stu Ungar. If you don't get Starz, you can still get your chance to see it when it is released on DVD March 15.
For more info, you can see the story about the Starz airing, there's a story at Poker Gazette. You can find it by clicking here.
You can also read the New Line Cinema press release about the DVD here.
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