Category: SPORTS
Heleno (2011)
By: Joel Olivo (Four Beers) - We sit (or stand vomiting profusely depending on your understanding of fly behavior.) a mere fly on the wall through the life of the world’s first soccer superstar, Heleno de Freitas. Before Pele, soccer superstars, the world bore witness to Heleno, The women wanted him, the men wanted to
42 (2013)
By :Matt Conway (Two Beers) - Jackie Robinson is a true legend. Even people who never watch baseball know of him, because his achievements went past the sport itself, he broke the racial barrier baseball had, which was a huge step towards ending the segregation in America during the 1950′s and 60′s. With such a great story, its a
Knuckleball! (2012)
By: Henry J. Fromage (Two Beers) – Spring is right around the corner, which means only one thing if you’re me, or people who hope to be as cool as me: Baseball. Where I’m at now it’s difficult to catch spring training games, so I have to content myself with baseball flicks, which I’m in
D2: The Mighty Ducks (1994)
By: The Cinephiliac (Five Beers) - It hurts when you discover your favorite childhood film is actually an uncovered piece of turd baking in the sun. Rock-a-doodle was great when you were a kid? Good luck watching that again today. Good Burger was hilarious back in the day? Try getting through it not and not wanted to
The Mighty Ducks (1992)
By: The Cinephiliac (Three Beers) - Sports was never my thing. In fact, it wasn’t until Wayne Gretsky gained popularity in the early 1990′s and The Mighty Ducks came out that I was even aware that playing hooky and hockey were two different things. Like most kids weaned on 90s culture, The Mighty Ducks trilogy was
The Sandlot (1993)
By: Oberst Von Berauscht (Three Beers) - Young Scott Smalls moves with his mother and stepmom into a new neighborhood in the summer of 1962. One day, Scott comes across a group of boys playing baseball in a makeshift backyard field and tries to join him. Initially rejected by many of the boys due to
Any Given Sunday (1999)
By: The Cinephiliac (Two Beers) - For most of my life I’ve abhorred football. I’ve considered it a boring sport played by neanderthals that pushed the male stereotype of brawn over brains. I was that rebel in high school that never went to a football game because organized sports were fascist. That is until my
Hoop Dreams (1994)
By: Abby Olcese (A Toast) - It seems appropriate to write about Hoop Dreams at the start of March Madness, especially when you live, like I do, in a town where basketball features prominently in local history (James Naismith coached here, and is buried here). We in Kansas idolize our basketball players. We think of
The Replacements (2000)
By: Kingsley Crabtree (Three Beers) - March is the worst month of my sports year because the ultimate Battle of Badassery (The Superbowl) just took place and for the next 2/3rds of the calendar I’m stuck with basketball, baseball and, shudder, golf. The only thing that should have eighteen holes and take that much time out
The Longest Yard (2005)
By: Katherine Balestrini (Three Beers) - Another remake of a classic tale, called The Longest Yard/Mean Machine, this time with Adam Sandler. Love him or hate him, he will keep making movies and we will keep hoping they are stupid, funny and he has cast his mates. This film ticks all of those boxes. It starts, if
