Tag: sports
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The Cut: Orlando Bloom’s unnamed fighter claws toward redemption in Sean Ellis’s brutal boxing drama, where the real opponent is the body itself.
Orlando Bloom’s unnamed fighter descends into obsession and bodily sacrifice in Sean Ellis’s The Cut—a brutal, poetic boxing drama that trades punches for pain and glory for hunger.
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The Smashing Machine: The Ring Is Not a Home
A mixed-to-positive review of Benny Safdie’s The Smashing Machine, starring Dwayne Johnson as MMA fighter Mark Kerr. The film avoids fight-movie clichés, focusing on emotional aftermath, toxic relationships, and the loneliness of a man trying to keep violence confined to the ring.
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Moon: The Body Knows Before the Mind
In Moon, Kurdwin Ayub directs with a quiet pulse, letting the body speak before the mouth does, letting silence stretch across gilded rooms and dusty training mats. Florentina Holzinger’s Sarah is a woman of muscle and memory, a fighter who has lost her fight, now wandering through a world that doesn’t know what to do…
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Happy Gilmore: A Swing at Comic Legacy
Released in 1996, *Happy Gilmore* is more than just a fun sports comedy; it really changed the way we think about golf and Adam Sandler’s unique style of humor. Directed by Dennis Dugan and co-written by Sandler and his buddy Tim Herlihy, the movie follows the hilarious misadventures of Happy Gilmore, a hot-headed hockey player…
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Eephus: Last Licks at Adler’s Field
In Eephus, director Carson Lund paints baseball not as spectacle but as ritual—fleeting, dusty, and tender. The film unfolds like the final breath of summer in a small Massachusetts town, where Adler’s Paint faces down the Riverdogs in one last showdown before bulldozers claim their field for a school. What emerges isn’t your typical sports…
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F1: Fuel in His Veins, Ghosts on the Track
Joseph Kosinski’s F1 barrels down the tarmac with chrome-bright ambition and fire in its gears. At its best, it’s a cinematic rush—an ode to velocity, reinvention, and the strange poetry of rubber peeling off asphalt at 200 miles per hour. But under the hood, not everything purrs as smoothly as the film hopes. While Brad…
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The Karate Kid: Legends- Wax On, Wax Off… Again?
The Karate Kid franchise has thrived on the underdog narrative, the poetic symmetry of a well-placed roundhouse kick, and the wisdom of a mentor who speaks in riddles. *Karate Kid: Legends* attempts to honor this tradition while stitching together two disparate branches of the Miyagi-verse—Ralph Macchio’s Daniel LaRusso and Jackie Chan’s Mr. Han—into one cohesive…
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Slamdance 2025: Racewalkers: A Lighthearted Journey
Movie Info: Will could never compete in the sport he’s always loved: racewalking. While struggling to find respect as a coach, Will’s fortunes change when he spots a burnout pitcher with the most impeccable racewalking stride he’s ever seen. Together, Will and Matt team up, face the challenges of a sport that doesn’t want them,…
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The Fire Inside: A Heartwarming Tale of Resilience and Hope”
MOVIE INFO: THE FIRE INSIDE is the inspirational true story of Claressa Shields, arguably the greatest female boxer of all time. Claressa, a high school Junior from Flint, Michigan, aided by her tough-love coach, Jason Crutchfield, pushes past all limitations to become the first American woman to win an Olympic gold medal in boxing. But…
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Rez Ball: A Heartfelt Journey Through Navajo Basketball Dreams”
MOVIE INFO: In the heart of Chuska, New Mexico, the Chuska Warriors, a high school basketball team rich in Native American heritage, face their greatest challenge. After the loss of their star player, the team must unite like never before to keep their dreams of a state championship alive. This is more than just a…
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The Long Game : Raising the Game for Minority Equality
MOVIE INFO: In 1956, JB Peña and his wife moved to the small town of Del Rio, TX, partly for a job as a school superintendent, but mostly to fulfill JB’s dream of joining the prestigious, all-white Del Rio Country Club. So when JB is rejected on the basis of his skin color, he is…
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Challengers: Set, Match, Love Me or Love Me Not
MOVIE INFO: From visionary filmmaker Luca Guadagnino, Challengers stars Zendaya as Tashi Duncan, a former tennis prodigy turned coach and a force of nature who makes no apologies for her game on and off the court. Married to a champion on a losing streak (Mike Faist – West Side Story), Tashi’s strategy for her husband’s…
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The Boys in the Boat: Manning the Oars
MOVIE INFO VIA ROTTEN TOMATOES: The Boys in the Boat is a sports drama based on the #1 New York Times bestselling non-fiction novel written by Daniel James Brown. The film, directed by George Clooney, is about the 1936 University of Washington rowing team that competed for gold at the Summer Olympics in Berlin. This…
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The Beautiful Game: A Different Kind of World Cup Goal
MOVIE INFO VIA ROTTEN TOMATOES: Mal (Bill Nighy, Living, About Time) is the manager of England’s homeless football team, taking his players to Rome with the hope of being crowned champions of the Homeless World Cup, a global street soccer tournament. At the last minute he decides to bring with them a talented striker Vinny…
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Next Goal Wins: A Winning Strategy
MOVIE INFO VIA ROTTEN TOMATOES: Directed by Academy Award Winner Taika Waititi (Jojo Rabbit, Thor: Ragnarok), NEXT GOAL WINS follows the American Samoa soccer team, infamous for their brutal 31-0 FIFA loss in 2001. With the World Cup Qualifiers approaching, the team hires down-on-his-luck, maverick coach Thomas Rongen (Michael Fassbender) hoping he will turn the…
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80 for Brady: Making Me Hate Tom Brady Even More
Plot via IMDB: A group of friends made it their life-long mission to go to the Super Bowl and meet NFL superstar Tom Brady. I’m a Miami Dolphins fan and I unequivocally hate Tom Brady. I hate all the stupid Brady to the Dolphins rumors. I hate his greatness. I hate that he lives in…
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Air: Game Changer
Plot via IMDB: Follows the history of shoe salesman Sonny Vaccaro, and how he led Nike in its pursuit of the greatest athlete in the history of basketball, Michael Jordan. Ben Affleck has proven that he can find drama in the details of negotiation. Air, a sports drama about how Nike not only developed the…