The Dawn Wall (2018)
“Why are you doing this?” As the lesser known of last year’s rock-climbing docs, The Dawn Wall takes a drastically different approach compared to 2018’s Best Documentary Feature winner Free […]
Category Archives: Sports
Fighting with My Family (2019)
“Wrestling’s in your blood.” As commercialized and accessible as Fighting with My Family might seem on the surface level, I’m fairly certain that I’ve never seen anything exactly like this movie […]
Free Solo (2018)
“There’s no margin for error.” A part of me almost wishes Free Solo didn’t exist. That this historic human feat dodged the media hoopla and the camera lights and relied on […]
High Flying Bird (2019)
“When I get hungry, I get mean.” As an examination of the modern era’s game behind the game, with it being the busied business of basketball in this David vs. […]
Creed II (2018)
“It’s just another fight.” Best described as the repetitive, unoriginal, blood sport birth child of 2015’s Creed and 1985’s Rocky IV, Creed II forever fuses two separate franchises together into one combative entity, like a dying […]
The Miracle Season (2018)
“There’s no end to the ifs.” The nuanced language of real life is extremely tough to translate into a good film, and despite its best and most adamant intentions, The Miracle […]
The Top 50 Films of 2016
What a year for the movies. It seems like I’m always having to defend the integrity and the quality of what’s actually available out there to curious family members and […]
Battle of the Sexes (2017)
“The men are simply more exciting to watch.” Even some 40+ years after the infamous tennis match between a sprite Billie Jean King and an aged Bobby Riggs, so many […]
Bleed for This (2016)
“He’s an animal.” Here’s a film that wants us to believe in miracles. Think Kirk Gibson’s hobbled and hunched over ’88 World Series game winning home run was an act of […]
Queen of Katwe (2016)
“In chess, the small one can become the big one.” The more I read about world affairs and watch the news and study foreign cinema, the more I discount […]
