Space Jam: A New Legacy (2021)
“You can’t be great without putting in work.” Overlong, overblown, and emblematic of what can go wrong when a studio so obviously sees its big budget picture as a product […]
Category Archives: Sports
Summer Catch (2001)
“I’m just trying to figure out what inning you’re going to self-destruct.” Upon revisiting Summer Catch, a mediocre film I admittedly fell asleep to nearly every night during the break of 2002, […]
The Way Back (2020)
“We all have our own cross to bear.” While watching The Way Back, a poignant film about pain played out and confronted through the game of basketball, I couldn’t help but […]
Ford V Ferrari (2019)
“I had no idea.” Something tells me that Ford v Ferrari is the exact kind of film its target crowd – and those who remain curious – so desperately need right […]
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 […]
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 […]
