Discuss: Your Favorite Baseball Movie(s)
Posted on November 2, 2008 - Filed Under Sports | Leave a Comment
Filed under: Sports
Here’s something I’ve figured out over the last few years: Most hardcore movie geeks are NOT sports fans, and I think I know why: Watching, discussing, and (perhaps) writing about movies is pretty much a full-time hobby. It sucks a lot of hours away, believe me. Sports? Pretty much the same thing. Unless […]
Brad Pitt Takes On ‘Moneyball’, Too
Posted on October 17, 2008 - Filed Under Sports | Leave a Comment
Filed under: Sports, Casting
Brad Pitt’s got a busy schedule. Not only has he attached himself to George Miller’s outer-space adaptation of Homer’s The Odyssey, but he’s also planning to star in an adaptation of Michael Lewis’s non-fiction Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game. Moneyball is an insider account of the way Billy Beane […]
Stars in Rewind: Michael Cera Switches Goals
Posted on August 7, 2008 - Filed Under Sports | Leave a Comment
Filed under: Comedy, Sports, Trailers and Clips, Stars in Rewind
Last year, Christopher Campbell gave us a Michael Cera “rewind” from Steal This Movie. I hate to be repetitive, but there’s another clip I just have to share. Did you know that George Michael once popped up in a Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen television movie […]
Read More..>>EXCLUSIVE: Clip from ‘Bigger, Stronger, Faster’
Posted on August 7, 2008 - Filed Under Sports | Leave a Comment
Filed under: Documentary, Sports, Fandom, Movie Marketing, Cinematical Indie, Trailers and Clips
Cinematical has received this exclusive clip from the upcoming documentary Bigger, Stronger, Faster, which premiered earlier this year to very good reviews at the Sundance Film Festival. The film, which was directed by Chris Bell and comes from the producers of Bowling for Columbine […]
Read More..>>Get Ready for More Sports on the Big Screen
Posted on August 7, 2008 - Filed Under Sports | Leave a Comment
Filed under: Sports, Deals
In case you were feeling like there just wasn’t enough feel-good sports drama on the big screen, we’re about to get a whole lot more. Variety reports that John Davis has teamed up with television producer Bruce Nash to develop a collection of sports-themed films that stem from Nash’s “Amazing Sports Stories.”Davis […]
Spike Lee Preps Doc About Michael Jordan
Posted on August 7, 2008 - Filed Under Sports | Leave a Comment
Filed under: Documentary, Sports
Well, it looks like Spike Lee is busy. You’ve already learned today that the director has once again spoken out about the white-washing in Clint Eastwood’s Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima, and that he added the Coen brothers to the mix. He recently showed an 8-minute promo of […]
Catch Linklater’s Baseball Doc on ESPN This Weekend
Posted on August 7, 2008 - Filed Under Sports | Leave a Comment
Filed under: Documentary, Sports, New Releases, Home Entertainment
Filmmaker Richard Linklater’s feature films have often debuted in prestigious film festivals and venues, from Sundance to Cannes, but he’s trying something different with his first documentary feature. After a splashy premiere in Austin last week, Inning by Inning: A Portrait of a Coach will be released … […]
Read More..>>George Lucas’ Daughter Can Kick Your Ass
Posted on August 7, 2008 - Filed Under Sports | Leave a Comment
Filed under: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sports, George Lucas
Before you continue bad mouthing George Lucas for what he’s done to your childhood, first with the Star Wars prequels and now with the disappointing Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, you might want to worry that he’ll send his daughter after you. Wait, what? […]
Tribeca Review: Ball Don’t Lie
Posted on August 7, 2008 - Filed Under Sports | Leave a Comment
Filed under: Drama, Sports, Tribeca, Theatrical Reviews
And here’s another street-ballin’ flick that wants you to know how tough it is to make it in life when the only thing not lyin’ to your face is that dirty old basketball. Ball Don’t Lie had a lot of potential and some sweeet b-ball sequences, but annoying editing […]
Read More..>>Casting Bites: From ‘Magic Man’ to the ‘Damned’ Men
Posted on August 7, 2008 - Filed Under Sports | Leave a Comment
Filed under: Drama, Sports, Thrillers, Casting, Cinematical Indie
And more actors get gigs, according to Variety:
First up, there’s a little Russian/American indie thriller called Magic Man which is cooking up. It’s about a magician who might possibly be a serial killer, and it stars Alexander Nevsky, Billy Zane, Richard Tyson, Estelle Raskin, Jed Allan, and Andrew […]