Tin Cup is unique. It’s about a sport that I would wager most people find pretty uneventful. It’s a comedy, but it isn’t slapstick like Caddyshack or The Longest Yard. Most of all, our hero doesn’t win in the end;…
Sports
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DocumentaryReviews
Melbourne Documentary Film Festival 2021 Review: ‘By Rook or Left Hook: The Story of Chessboxing’
It’s hard to deny the title has some punch to it. The peculiar world of chessboxing, a sport determined to find the smartest toughest guy. The art of chessboxing is finding the balance between two…
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DramaReviews
‘Final Set’ Has Enthralling Drama, Both On and Off the Court
by Sean Coatesby Sean CoatesIt’s a tale as old as sport itself and one that is forever etched into sporting history; the comeback. Once successful athletes who are down and out that come from the clouds, like a phoenix…
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DocumentaryReviews
International Film Festival Rotterdam 2021 Review: ‘The Witches of the Orient’
by Liam Trumpby Liam TrumpSports movies can provide great insight into foreign cultures. Almost every country in the world weaves sports into its culture to some degree, even relying on them greatly to present a strong national image to…
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Okay, wow. What did I just watch? This movie was…something. Rad, directed by Hal Needham, is a movie about an amateur BMX rider, Cru Jones (Bill Allen), who tries to enter a promoter’s race for…
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Conducting a therapy session by way of moviemaking is something I’m intensely interested in…if done correctly. It feeds into our fascination with celebrity, and the films themselves take on deeper meanings than what’s on the…
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It seems like there are far too many sports biopics that focus on a player, team, or organization, but there’s hardly any biopics on athletes from sports entertainment. With the help of The Rock, the time has…
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Retrospectives
After 20 Years, ‘Varsity Blues’ is a Little More Complicated But Still Fun
by Aubrey McKayby Aubrey McKayIt’s a Friday night in West Texas and the town is empty. Stores are closed; nobody is home and the streets abandoned. An eerie drive through the small town will show not much more than…
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Darren Aronofsky is one of the great trickster gods of the modern cinema world. His modus operandi as a filmmaker is to shock, to provoke thought, to search the human psyche, to obliterate his audience’s expectations…
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As a lifelong Rocky fan, it’s always an exciting time when a new film in the franchise is set to debut. The pressure is high for Creed II as it is following the exceptional Creed.…
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Time to celebrate Rookie of the Year’s 25th anniversary! I’ll be honest — Rookie of the Year (1993) will never be near as good as The Sandlot (1993), but it’s sure funny. The lovable film stars Thomas Ian Nicholas as Henry…
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The gruelling sport of boxing has given us a library of true stories revolved around the sweet science. As well as that, the sheer impossibility of such a tough, damaging game has inspired many fictional narratives.…
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For whatever reason, there just aren’t many sports movies released these days. I, Tonya broke through with an awards push last fall, but it seems as if there’s a disproportionate amount of films centering around the…
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Can you believe that it’s been 25 years since we first learned how to make a perfect s’more, how to get a cute lifeguard to kiss you, or how to retrieve a priceless baseball —…
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Rankings
80’s Movies March Madness: The Finals — Vote for Your Favorite 80’s Movies!
by Trey Davisby Trey DavisWe’ve made it to the finals of 80’s Movies March Madness! MovieBabble has created a March Madness-style bracket to determine the best 80’s movies with the release of Ready Player One this past month to determine which film best encapsulates…
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With Brad Pitt starring in several films like James Gray’s Ad Astra and Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood coming out on the horizon, I thought it would be a good time to…
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Now that the NFL is back in full force, football is on the minds of millions of people all across the United States. Over the years, Hollywood has shared this fascination of the country’s most…
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Sports movies have the ability to enthrall us while also making us feel really great. With the Super Bowl festivities winding down, I thought it be a good idea to take a look at the…