One of my favorite blogs, Buzzfeed, has an entry about the movie Rocket Science.

Rocket Science will be released on August 10.

NPR’s Day to Day has a story about the debate documentary, Resolved.

Filmmaker Greg Whitely’s new documentary, Resolved, enters the fast-talking world of high-school debate teams. Whitely and one of the debaters featured in the documentary, Louis Blackwell, discuss the film.

Blackwell and his coach challenge the rules of high school debate, saying that the institution is racist and elitist.

The Long Beach Press Telegram has an in-depth background article about Resolved.

There are apparently two movies looking for distribution with the same title. This is the one that profiles the team from Highland Park High School in Texas.

A trailer is available on the movie’s website.

[via Global Debate Blog]

Variety has a review of Resolved which premiered at the Los Angeles Film Festival this past weekend.

Previous Mentions
“Resolved” Movie Trailer
Resolved: Another Debate Documentary

[via Victory Briefs Daily]

A trailer for the debate movie Resolved is now online. The world premiere of the movie is today at the Los Angeles Film Festival.

We mentioned Resolved in an earlier post.

[via Global Debate Blog]

The Rocket Science trailer is available on YouTube.

[via Movie Marketing Madness]

The debate movie Rocket Science is scheduled to be released on August 10. The new movie poster is a major improvement over the poster that was being displayed for Sundance.

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Rocket Science: The Reviews Are In
Rocket Science Update 1-17-2007
Rocket Science Update 12-1-2006
Debate and Rocket Science

The Great Debaters has been in pre-production for a long-time. Production is scheduled to begin May and the film is starting to get some press.

The film is being produced by Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo Productions. Denzel Washington is the director and will portray the debate coach, Melvin B. Tolson. Forest Whitaker is in negotiations to join the cast. Here is the plot outline from Hollywood.com:

True story of professor Melvin B. Tolson who formed a debate team at a small, African American college in the 1930s. The team went on to beat Harvard in the national debate championships.

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Back-to-Back Helming

Victory Briefs Daily has a story about another debate movie: Thanks To Gravity. Here is the plot summary from Rotten Tomatoes:

Set amidst the eccentric intellectual world of debate, a Jewish Latin-American girl struggles with questions of identity, culture, tradition, and love to find out for herself if a woman can really have it all.

The Polly Staffle website has a more in-depth summary and review.

Thanks To Gravity will be shown this Saturday at the Newport Beach Film Festival.