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American Underdog

No one wins alone.... If you're looking for inspirational people in your world, there is no better subject than Kurt Warner. As a huge NFL fan and an attendee of the Super Bowl in which Warner brought the Cardinals to the very edge of a win (in one of the greatest Super Bowls ever played by anyone's measure), I was profoundly moved by AMERICAN UNDERDOG. Warner's sports life is certainly here, well documented and thrillingly told. Deftly intercutting new dramatized footage and actual game...

Draft Day (2014)

Any NFL fan will be hard pressed to not enjoy DRAFT DAY on some level. Your enthusiasm will vary wildly based on your forgiveness for how badly the film fumbles the ball when it gets off the field. Kevin Costner stars as fictional Cleveland Browns general manager Sonny Weaver. He has just lost his legendary father/previous Browns GM after firing him the year before. Sonny is facing a draft day that will shape his team and his career as he is truly at the controls for the first time. Denis...

I don't know a red-blooded American male that doesn't weep at the power of RUDY. Between Jerry Goldsmith's music, Sean Astin's perfect performance as a blue collar dreamer and the power of its roots in a true story, this is the sports film that makes every grown man choke up. Yep. Me too. The film immerses us in Rudy's family life in a small steel town. He's been told his entire life he's too small to play football, he's not smart enough to attend Notre Dame. Ned Beatty is terrific as his...

Friday Night Lights

Much darker than I expected and elevated by a terrific Billy Bob Thornton, FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS is a gritty look at the 1988 Permian High Panthers from Odessa, Texas. In an economically depressed community where Football may be the only way out, we watch the entire year from pre-season to Championship Game in the Astrodome. Watching these young men battle with the weight of the entire town behind them is powerful and at times, hard to watch. Thornton is excellent as Coach Gary Gaines, juggling...

BRIAN'S SONG was one of the highest rated TV movies of all-time when it hit the small screen in 1971. The winner of 5 Emmy Awards, it still holds up as one of the best true story/football films ever made more than 50 years later. Billy Dee Williams, in his first major film after a lot of TV roles, is excellent as Gale Sayers. We know that Sayers would becomes one of the greatest Chicago Bears in history, but Williams captures his rookie year. Shy and gullible, he falls for every prank thrown...

A fairly funny time capsule of 1977, SEMI-TOUGH captures a very different era of sports films and R-rated comedies. Burt Reynolds and Kris Kristofferson play two professional football players, aptly named Billy Clyde Puckett and Shake Tiller. As longtime best friends, the two have long been a trio completed by the team owner's daughter Barbara Jane, sweetly played by Jill Clayburgh. The film focuses on pro football, the oddball bunch of team players including Brian Dennehy and Carl...

The Longest Yard

One of the funniest, grittiest football movies of all time, THE LONGEST YARD is a time capsule of seventies action films, with director Robert Aldrich and star Burt Reynolds scoring a big box office hit. Reynolds plays faded football star Paul Crewe. The opening scene finds Crewe fighting with his rich girlfriend, stealing her Maserati and throwing drunken punches at arresting policemen. Upon arriving in a swampy, hot and brutal Florida prison as a result, Crewe is approached by warden...

American Underdog

No one wins alone.... If you're looking for inspirational people in your world, there is no better subject than Kurt Warner. As a huge NFL fan and an attendee of the Super Bowl in which Warner brought the Cardinals to the very edge of a win (in one of the greatest Super Bowls ever played by anyone's measure), I was profoundly moved by AMERICAN UNDERDOG. Warner's sports life is certainly here, well documented and thrillingly told. Deftly intercutting new dramatized footage and actual game...

Draft Day (2014)

Any NFL fan will be hard pressed to not enjoy DRAFT DAY on some level. Your enthusiasm will vary wildly based on your forgiveness for how badly the film fumbles the ball when it gets off the field. Kevin Costner stars as fictional Cleveland Browns general manager Sonny Weaver. He has just lost his legendary father/previous Browns GM after firing him the year before. Sonny is facing a draft day that will shape his team and his career as he is truly at the controls for the first time. Denis...

I don't know a red-blooded American male that doesn't weep at the power of RUDY. Between Jerry Goldsmith's music, Sean Astin's perfect performance as a blue collar dreamer and the power of its roots in a true story, this is the sports film that makes every grown man choke up. Yep. Me too. The film immerses us in Rudy's family life in a small steel town. He's been told his entire life he's too small to play football, he's not smart enough to attend Notre Dame. Ned Beatty is terrific as his...

Friday Night Lights

Much darker than I expected and elevated by a terrific Billy Bob Thornton, FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS is a gritty look at the 1988 Permian High Panthers from Odessa, Texas. In an economically depressed community where Football may be the only way out, we watch the entire year from pre-season to Championship Game in the Astrodome. Watching these young men battle with the weight of the entire town behind them is powerful and at times, hard to watch. Thornton is excellent as Coach Gary Gaines, juggling...

BRIAN'S SONG was one of the highest rated TV movies of all-time when it hit the small screen in 1971. The winner of 5 Emmy Awards, it still holds up as one of the best true story/football films ever made more than 50 years later. Billy Dee Williams, in his first major film after a lot of TV roles, is excellent as Gale Sayers. We know that Sayers would becomes one of the greatest Chicago Bears in history, but Williams captures his rookie year. Shy and gullible, he falls for every prank thrown...

A fairly funny time capsule of 1977, SEMI-TOUGH captures a very different era of sports films and R-rated comedies. Burt Reynolds and Kris Kristofferson play two professional football players, aptly named Billy Clyde Puckett and Shake Tiller. As longtime best friends, the two have long been a trio completed by the team owner's daughter Barbara Jane, sweetly played by Jill Clayburgh. The film focuses on pro football, the oddball bunch of team players including Brian Dennehy and Carl...

The Longest Yard

One of the funniest, grittiest football movies of all time, THE LONGEST YARD is a time capsule of seventies action films, with director Robert Aldrich and star Burt Reynolds scoring a big box office hit. Reynolds plays faded football star Paul Crewe. The opening scene finds Crewe fighting with his rich girlfriend, stealing her Maserati and throwing drunken punches at arresting policemen. Upon arriving in a swampy, hot and brutal Florida prison as a result, Crewe is approached by warden...

American Underdog

No one wins alone.... If you're looking for inspirational people in your world, there is no better subject than Kurt Warner. As a huge NFL fan and an attendee of the Super Bowl in which Warner brought the Cardinals to the very edge of a win (in one of the greatest Super Bowls ever played by anyone's measure), I was profoundly moved by AMERICAN UNDERDOG. Warner's sports life is certainly here, well documented and thrillingly told. Deftly intercutting new dramatized footage and actual game...

Draft Day (2014)

Any NFL fan will be hard pressed to not enjoy DRAFT DAY on some level. Your enthusiasm will vary wildly based on your forgiveness for how badly the film fumbles the ball when it gets off the field. Kevin Costner stars as fictional Cleveland Browns general manager Sonny Weaver. He has just lost his legendary father/previous Browns GM after firing him the year before. Sonny is facing a draft day that will shape his team and his career as he is truly at the controls for the first time. Denis...

I don't know a red-blooded American male that doesn't weep at the power of RUDY. Between Jerry Goldsmith's music, Sean Astin's perfect performance as a blue collar dreamer and the power of its roots in a true story, this is the sports film that makes every grown man choke up. Yep. Me too. The film immerses us in Rudy's family life in a small steel town. He's been told his entire life he's too small to play football, he's not smart enough to attend Notre Dame. Ned Beatty is terrific as his...

Friday Night Lights

Much darker than I expected and elevated by a terrific Billy Bob Thornton, FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS is a gritty look at the 1988 Permian High Panthers from Odessa, Texas. In an economically depressed community where Football may be the only way out, we watch the entire year from pre-season to Championship Game in the Astrodome. Watching these young men battle with the weight of the entire town behind them is powerful and at times, hard to watch. Thornton is excellent as Coach Gary Gaines, juggling...

BRIAN'S SONG was one of the highest rated TV movies of all-time when it hit the small screen in 1971. The winner of 5 Emmy Awards, it still holds up as one of the best true story/football films ever made more than 50 years later. Billy Dee Williams, in his first major film after a lot of TV roles, is excellent as Gale Sayers. We know that Sayers would becomes one of the greatest Chicago Bears in history, but Williams captures his rookie year. Shy and gullible, he falls for every prank thrown...

A fairly funny time capsule of 1977, SEMI-TOUGH captures a very different era of sports films and R-rated comedies. Burt Reynolds and Kris Kristofferson play two professional football players, aptly named Billy Clyde Puckett and Shake Tiller. As longtime best friends, the two have long been a trio completed by the team owner's daughter Barbara Jane, sweetly played by Jill Clayburgh. The film focuses on pro football, the oddball bunch of team players including Brian Dennehy and Carl...

The Longest Yard

One of the funniest, grittiest football movies of all time, THE LONGEST YARD is a time capsule of seventies action films, with director Robert Aldrich and star Burt Reynolds scoring a big box office hit. Reynolds plays faded football star Paul Crewe. The opening scene finds Crewe fighting with his rich girlfriend, stealing her Maserati and throwing drunken punches at arresting policemen. Upon arriving in a swampy, hot and brutal Florida prison as a result, Crewe is approached by warden...

American Underdog

No one wins alone.... If you're looking for inspirational people in your world, there is no better subject than Kurt Warner. As a huge NFL fan and an attendee of the Super Bowl in which Warner brought the Cardinals to the very edge of a win (in one of the greatest Super Bowls ever played by anyone's measure), I was profoundly moved by AMERICAN UNDERDOG. Warner's sports life is certainly here, well documented and thrillingly told. Deftly intercutting new dramatized footage and actual game...

Draft Day (2014)

Any NFL fan will be hard pressed to not enjoy DRAFT DAY on some level. Your enthusiasm will vary wildly based on your forgiveness for how badly the film fumbles the ball when it gets off the field. Kevin Costner stars as fictional Cleveland Browns general manager Sonny Weaver. He has just lost his legendary father/previous Browns GM after firing him the year before. Sonny is facing a draft day that will shape his team and his career as he is truly at the controls for the first time. Denis...

I don't know a red-blooded American male that doesn't weep at the power of RUDY. Between Jerry Goldsmith's music, Sean Astin's perfect performance as a blue collar dreamer and the power of its roots in a true story, this is the sports film that makes every grown man choke up. Yep. Me too. The film immerses us in Rudy's family life in a small steel town. He's been told his entire life he's too small to play football, he's not smart enough to attend Notre Dame. Ned Beatty is terrific as his...

Friday Night Lights

Much darker than I expected and elevated by a terrific Billy Bob Thornton, FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS is a gritty look at the 1988 Permian High Panthers from Odessa, Texas. In an economically depressed community where Football may be the only way out, we watch the entire year from pre-season to Championship Game in the Astrodome. Watching these young men battle with the weight of the entire town behind them is powerful and at times, hard to watch. Thornton is excellent as Coach Gary Gaines, juggling...

BRIAN'S SONG was one of the highest rated TV movies of all-time when it hit the small screen in 1971. The winner of 5 Emmy Awards, it still holds up as one of the best true story/football films ever made more than 50 years later. Billy Dee Williams, in his first major film after a lot of TV roles, is excellent as Gale Sayers. We know that Sayers would becomes one of the greatest Chicago Bears in history, but Williams captures his rookie year. Shy and gullible, he falls for every prank thrown...

A fairly funny time capsule of 1977, SEMI-TOUGH captures a very different era of sports films and R-rated comedies. Burt Reynolds and Kris Kristofferson play two professional football players, aptly named Billy Clyde Puckett and Shake Tiller. As longtime best friends, the two have long been a trio completed by the team owner's daughter Barbara Jane, sweetly played by Jill Clayburgh. The film focuses on pro football, the oddball bunch of team players including Brian Dennehy and Carl...

The Longest Yard

One of the funniest, grittiest football movies of all time, THE LONGEST YARD is a time capsule of seventies action films, with director Robert Aldrich and star Burt Reynolds scoring a big box office hit. Reynolds plays faded football star Paul Crewe. The opening scene finds Crewe fighting with his rich girlfriend, stealing her Maserati and throwing drunken punches at arresting policemen. Upon arriving in a swampy, hot and brutal Florida prison as a result, Crewe is approached by warden...

American Underdog

No one wins alone.... If you're looking for inspirational people in your world, there is no better subject than Kurt Warner. As a huge NFL fan and an attendee of the Super Bowl in which Warner brought the Cardinals to the very edge of a win (in one of the greatest Super Bowls ever played by anyone's measure), I was profoundly moved by AMERICAN UNDERDOG. Warner's sports life is certainly here, well documented and thrillingly told. Deftly intercutting new dramatized footage and actual game...

Draft Day (2014)

Any NFL fan will be hard pressed to not enjoy DRAFT DAY on some level. Your enthusiasm will vary wildly based on your forgiveness for how badly the film fumbles the ball when it gets off the field. Kevin Costner stars as fictional Cleveland Browns general manager Sonny Weaver. He has just lost his legendary father/previous Browns GM after firing him the year before. Sonny is facing a draft day that will shape his team and his career as he is truly at the controls for the first time. Denis...

I don't know a red-blooded American male that doesn't weep at the power of RUDY. Between Jerry Goldsmith's music, Sean Astin's perfect performance as a blue collar dreamer and the power of its roots in a true story, this is the sports film that makes every grown man choke up. Yep. Me too. The film immerses us in Rudy's family life in a small steel town. He's been told his entire life he's too small to play football, he's not smart enough to attend Notre Dame. Ned Beatty is terrific as his...

Friday Night Lights

Much darker than I expected and elevated by a terrific Billy Bob Thornton, FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS is a gritty look at the 1988 Permian High Panthers from Odessa, Texas. In an economically depressed community where Football may be the only way out, we watch the entire year from pre-season to Championship Game in the Astrodome. Watching these young men battle with the weight of the entire town behind them is powerful and at times, hard to watch. Thornton is excellent as Coach Gary Gaines, juggling...

BRIAN'S SONG was one of the highest rated TV movies of all-time when it hit the small screen in 1971. The winner of 5 Emmy Awards, it still holds up as one of the best true story/football films ever made more than 50 years later. Billy Dee Williams, in his first major film after a lot of TV roles, is excellent as Gale Sayers. We know that Sayers would becomes one of the greatest Chicago Bears in history, but Williams captures his rookie year. Shy and gullible, he falls for every prank thrown...

A fairly funny time capsule of 1977, SEMI-TOUGH captures a very different era of sports films and R-rated comedies. Burt Reynolds and Kris Kristofferson play two professional football players, aptly named Billy Clyde Puckett and Shake Tiller. As longtime best friends, the two have long been a trio completed by the team owner's daughter Barbara Jane, sweetly played by Jill Clayburgh. The film focuses on pro football, the oddball bunch of team players including Brian Dennehy and Carl...

The Longest Yard

One of the funniest, grittiest football movies of all time, THE LONGEST YARD is a time capsule of seventies action films, with director Robert Aldrich and star Burt Reynolds scoring a big box office hit. Reynolds plays faded football star Paul Crewe. The opening scene finds Crewe fighting with his rich girlfriend, stealing her Maserati and throwing drunken punches at arresting policemen. Upon arriving in a swampy, hot and brutal Florida prison as a result, Crewe is approached by warden...

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