Road to the Big Leagues

The Dominican Republic produces more professional baseball players than any country other than the USA. Most MLB teams have entire camps set up in DR farming players to play ball full time in hopes of finding the next star.

CT 8/10

Please Vote For Me

Luo Lei, Cheng Cheng, and Xu Xiafei run democratically for third-grade class monitor in Wuhan, China.

CT 10/10
TL 10/10

JR 9/10

Last Days

What did Kurt Cobain do on his last two days alive?

CT 10/10
TL 10/10

After The Wedding

The director of an orphanage in Bangalore, India returns to his home country Denmark to raise money.

CT 8.5/10

JR- 8/10

Searching for Angela Shelton

The filmmaker named Angela Shelton seeks out other women in the United States with the same name. She discovers that over half of the 40 women who agree to be interviewed have been sexually assaulted, victims of incest or victims of domestic violence. (Not on Netflix yet but I can get a copy).

HW 8/10

Temple Grandin

A woman with autism aspires to design slaughterhouses. The period piece art direction is fun, but the good-guy/bad-guy roles over-simplify a story that surely was anything but.

CT 7/10

Towelhead

I haven't seen anything great in a while so I figured I'd post some garbage... Towelhead is awful. It's like a diverse, poorly-lit Juno. I kept waiting for it to get so bad it became funny, but instead it just ended with me wanting gin and a shower.

CT 3/10

Prom Night in Mississippi

Actor Morgan Freeman works to integrate prom at a high school in Mississippi. He offers to pay for prom if they integrate and parents are not happy. Some white parents still organize a separate white prom and refuse to talk on camera. The documentary follows seniors and some parents as they prepare for prom.

HW 9/10
TL 8/10

Encounters at the End of the World

A beautiful, weird adventure to the South Pole to meet the few-dozen scientists working and living there.

Ct 9/10

jr 9/10

Goodbye Solo

A cab driver from Senegal wants to be friends with everyone, including an old man that isn't interested.

CT 9/10

Chalk

An inside look at a fictitious high school in Austin. I laughed out loud several times.

This film is what I think life would be like if I actually got my education degree.

TL 8.5/10.0

Off the Grid: Life on the Mesa

Gulf War Veterans, Teenage Runaways & social misfits form a community in the desert of New Mexico where they shoot guns, light cars on fire, and farm in the search for their vision of the American Dream.

TL 6/10

Netflix is about to get a whole let better

http://mashable.com/2010/02/01/netflix-watch-instantly-indie/