Town Center movies captivate city’s families

Mary Whitfill Staff Writer The City of Coppell recently hosted outdoor movie nights for local families, showing child-friendly movies on Friday nights. With free admission and popcorn, families with children of all ages crowded into the Coppell Town Center Plaza to enjoy the show. Families brought blankets, lawn chairs and various forms of dinner to the small area behind Town Center. Complete with a popcorn stand, small area of picnic tables, and a moderately sized viewing screen, the event captured the feel of a drive-in movie, including the wide open spaces for children to run around in before and after the showing. For the last four weeks, Coppell has shown The Blind Side, Land of…

Sidekick predicts Oscar winners

Video by Chris Nguyen Features Editor This year’ s Academy Awards has gotten more buzz than ever before with big   blockbuster films, including Avatar, Up and The Blind Side, finally earning a huge number of nominations with an expanded nominations list. Ironically enough, the film looking to sweep most of the major categories is The Hurt Locker, a small-budget film that was quietly released in August. Oscar predicting is quite the complex science, which requires taking into account voters’ true movie favorites and their need to make big statements and repressing one’s own desired winners to think like an Academy member. But The Sidekick’ s Chris Nguyen will try anyways with his predictions for…

“The Blind Side” movie review

By Rebecca Fowler Staff Writer There are few movies able to accurately portray a true story while maintaining powerful, touching morals.  The Blind Side, however, does just this. The Blind Side, starring Sandra Bullock, Tim McGraw and Kathy Bates, is an amazing on-screen version of Michael Lewis’ The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game, published in 2006.  Though the movie is taken from the book, both are based on the true story of Michael Oher (Quinton Aaron), whose journey has become an inspiration to prospective NFL players and destitute youth throughout the country. Both versions of Oher’s story tell of his poor beginnings in the care of various foster families and his drug-addicted mother.  He…