Bend It Like Beckham (2003, DVD)

Bend It Like Beckham tells a simple tale of a young Indian girl named Jess who enjoys playing football with the guys. Sadly her parents are not to keen on the idea of her playing football, but grudgingly allow her to continue playing in the park until a young white girl sees her and asks her to join the local girls team. They refuse, but following her dreams she pretends to have a job at HMV, signs up with the girls team and takes up training. While this happens she finds herself developing an attraction to the local coach, who, being a white man, would be totally rejected by her parents. It..

WHAT IS THE BIG DEAL WITH DAVID BECKHAM?! Being an avid supporter of Beckham's former rival team (Arsenal), it makes me wonder even more as to why he is so special. Sure, he can bend a ball like crazy. But there are many footballers who can do that. Sure, he can create brilliant crosses. But other footballers can do that as well. He may look attractive to many girls. But other footballers do as well. So, I was immediately curious as to why the film Bend it Like Beckham was so well-revered. I was guessing this film would praise Beckham as if he were a God. I was glad the film proved my...

World, meet Jess (Parminder Nagra) -- short for Jesminder -- a young teen girl in the suburbs of London. In her traditional Sikh family, she's a bit of a rebel, thinking of football (soccer for us Yanks), and one day making it big. Enough so that she daydreams of playing alongside champion David Beckham. Even to the point where she has conversations with the player's photo over her bed at night. Alas, Jess's family isn't quite so bending. Her long-suffering father, Mr. Bhamra (Anuper Kher) is an airline pilot, more or less trying to keep peace in the home by yielding to his wife's (Shaheen...

One of the downsides of living in the middle of nowhere (Odessa, Texas is 300 miles from any large city) is that our movie theatres don t always screen movies that are a little out of the ordinary . This category includes almost every foreign film and almost every art film. To give you an example of how backwards some of our local video people are, I once asked a clerk where the foreign films were in the video store and received the following question in reply: Farm films? I don t think we have any of those. I repeated the word foreign and her reply this time was: You mean where they speak...