![]() ![]() He's her childhood swim coach, a driving taskmaster, who she hasn't seen in awhile and who has stopped showing up at her swim meets. There's also some side plots about her parents' divorce, issues between her and her older sister, Beth (Morfydd Anderson), who calls to ask her to check on their dad, and Haley and her father's estrangement. That turns out to be important since she spends most of the film submerged. ![]() We meet our protagonist during her college swim practice, letting us know that Haley has skills in the water. While Crawl isn't going to win any awards, it's a masterful example of tension-filled action, and its claustrophobic setting adds to the thrills. When she arrives, however, the hurricane is the least of her problems as massive alligators make their escape increasingly unlikely. SURVIVE During a hurricane, Haley Keller (Kaya Scodelario, right) returns home to save her father, Dave (Barry Pepper), and the family dog but discovers floodwaters are infested with alligators, in Crawl.Īlexandre Aja ( The Hills Have Eyes (2006), Piranha 3D, Horns) directs this action-horror film about Haley Keller (Kaya Scodelario), who during a Category 5 hurricane returns to her family home to save her father, Dave (Barry Pepper), who's trapped in his flooding basement.With all her challenges, Hamilton greeted them with a smile and headstrong determination. Aside from her life in the water, on land she also faced the challenge of growing up, married life, and motherhood. Instead Hamilton focused on challenges in her professional life that she wouldn't give up on, she learned to swim with one arm and tackled professional-level surfing skills such as barrel riding and aerials. The documentary doesn't linger on the shark attack, as Hamilton didn't, although we see much of her career throughout her teenage years was centered on it. But multiple home videos of her time in the hospital showed that her positive spirit never faltered, and her ambition to get back in the water was larger than her loss. She and her best friend Alana Blanchard, another future pro surfer, were out surfing one morning when Hamilton was attacked. It's a consensus that Hamilton was a natural surfer who loved a challenge and-let's face it-was better than the boys in her competing level. We're immediately plunged into home videos and interviews with her family and childhood friends in her hometown of Kauai, Hawaii. She's in a boat with her husband in Maui, sizing up her toughest challenge yet, riding a section of treacherous waves dubbed "Jaws." The challenge is one of many that Hamilton faces throughout her life. The film opens up 16 years after Hamilton survived a shark attack that left her without her left arm. The only thing I wouldn't see is the breathtaking surf shots and aerial views of the ocean. I think if I Googled her past interviews with Oprah, I'd be pretty caught up with her current life. While we get a glimpse of Hamilton's triumphs and current adult life, it feels limited. Lieber show's the audience that she's more than just the 13-year-old girl who lost her arm to a tiger shark back in 2003. GET RAD! Bethany Hamilton may have lost her arm to a tiger shark attack, but that didn't stop her from becoming a pro surfer, chronicled in the new documentary Bethany Hamilton: Unstoppable, screening exclusively at The Palm.Ĭo-writer and director Aaron Lieber ( The Pursuit, Lakey Peterson: Zero to 100) helms this documentary about a side of Bethany Hamilton's life that we rarely see.In Apollo 11, we're watching the real thing, and it's just as gripping.ĭirector Miller allows the archival footage and newscaster narration to tell the story, but when the voiceover alludes to the psychological baggage each astronaut takes into a dangerous space mission with him, we see photos and home movies of their families and test flights that led up to penetrating space-all that came before and all that could be lost. Putting a man on the moon was a monumental undertaking, which First Man (2018), starring Ryan Gosling as Neil Armstrong, did a terrific job of fictionalizing. The film opens hours before countdown, and we see the astronauts being fitted in their suits, technicians working on a leaking valve, and monitors lined with men-and a couple women-keeping track of the various systems. Neil Armstrong and pilots Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins on their amazing eight-day mission to the moon and back. Using archival footage, you'll witness Cmdr. Todd Douglas Miller ( Dinosaur 13) directs this documentary about the historic 1969 mission to land on the moon. landing on the moon, Downtown Centre Cinemas will screen the documentary Apollo 11 on July 20. SPACE, MAN To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the U.S. ![]()
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