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The Best Sports Films (not about boxing)

Posted 2 years ago

W​ith Creed III hitting movie screens and the spring weather finally about to bring people outside again, everyone begins thinking about sports. What will we play? What will we watch? It’s everyone’s favorite time of the year. The world of...

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Darren Aronofsky wants to make a musical

Posted 2 years ago

Darren Aronofsky has made 16mm thrillers, big-budget biblical epics, sports dramas, and psychological horrors. But there’s one genre he’s hoping to tackle soon, and it’s an unexpected one: the musical. Darren Aronofsky recently sat down with The A.V. Club to...

The Good, The Bad & the Badass: Mickey Rourke

Posted 10 years ago

Last week, we took a look at the career of the late, great Mike Nichols. This week, we turn our gaze to an actor who's hard his share of ups and downs, but it still capable of great work when...

Movie Jail: This week’s defendant is…Mickey Rourke!

Posted 11 years ago

This is Movie Jail, a unique maximum security prison that houses some of the worst writers, directors, actors and producers from Hollywood and beyond. Their crimes? The offenses vary from convict to convict but most of these inmates have contributed...

Dissecting Director Darren Aronofsky!

Posted 11 years ago

DIRECTOR DARREN ARONOFSKY! It's safe to say Darren Aronofsky has become one of the best visual storytellers in the world of cinema today. He really has. As a self described "average" writer, it's clear Aronofsky has become more comfortable and...

The UnPopular Opinion: The Wrestler

Posted 11 years ago

THE UNPOPULAR OPINION is an ongoing column featuring different takes on films that either the writer HATED, but that the majority of film fans LOVED, or that the writer LOVED, but that most others LOATHED. We're hoping this column will...

Hulk Hogan says he wants a part in Expendables 3, and then fibs about the lead in The Wrestler

Posted 13 years ago

Now this is interesting… Childhood wrestling icon, Hulk Hogan did an interview with Howard Stern as part of his national press tour, which came about because of his recently released sex tape (gross). Well, his camp may not say that,...

C’mon Hollywood: We need more quality sports films!

Posted 13 years ago

Seeing as the 2012 Summer Olympics was the most watched TV event in US history, there’s obviously more than a little interest in seeing people perform some really cool (and really weird) athletic feats.   For the first time in my...

Grindhouse Wrestler

Posted 16 years ago

   As much as I loved the fake trailers for Tarantino & Rodriguez’s GRINDHOUSE, looking at this thing down there kinda makes me feel that’s exactly what they should’ve done – take well-known movies and turn them into gritty 70s-ploitation...

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