• October 29, 2016
• At Home, Drama

As it stands, I don’t mind football, but I don’t think I have the rabid, all-consuming obsession with the sport that might be required to get the most from...

• July 12, 2016
• At Home, Comedy, Drama

The reason there are formulas in movie plots is because they are tried and true, and they really work. If you’ve seen or enjoyed any–and I mean ANY sports-themed...

• July 12, 2016
• At Home, Drama

The always excellent Joseph Gordon-Levitt stars as the free-spirited Petit, but is unfortunately saddled with a seriously tragic – and hugely distracting – wig, an even more wobbly French...

• March 4, 2016
• At Home, Drama

For some reason I found it sort of impossible to believe that Sylvester Stallone is actually IN Creed. I figured it was just a cameo that he so totally...

• June 6, 2015
• At Home, Drama

I have to admit, years ago I dismissed Kevin Costner as being one of the dullest, most generic, white-bread actors around. But dammit if he didn’t start to slowly...

• December 9, 2014
• At Home, Drama

Based on the true story of the Concord, Calif., De La Salle Spartans football team – who made sports history with a 16-year winning streak of a whopping 151...

• September 24, 2014
• At Home, Drama

Now, I enjoy football as much as the next gal (Go, Seahawks!), but I also know it is a game and it isn’t the end-all/be-all of the New World...

• August 11, 2014
• At Home, Documentary

In a curious case of coincidence, I had been chatting with co-workers next to a map of the world, and one of us noticed a tiny island in the...

• July 25, 2014
• At Home, Comedy

Vince Vaughn stars as Peter La Fleur, an aimless but contented slacker who runs Average Joe’s gymnasium – a sort of haven for the geeky, the unathletic and the...

• April 8, 2014
• At Home, Drama

Balls, unsurprisingly, feature prominently in this movie about the manliest of American professional sports: Football. Kevin Costner plays Sonny Weaver, the general manager of the sucky, ever-struggling Cleveland Browns....

• February 24, 2014
• At Home, Drama

I remember seeing Million Dollar Baby in the theater with a group of girlfriends. Hey, it’s an empowering story about a female boxer, is critically acclaimed, and won the...

• November 25, 2013
• At Home, Drama, Science Fiction

Set in the not-too-distant future, the film stars Hugh Jackman as Charlie Kenton, a one-time boxer, who’s traded in his gloves for a remote in order to fight it...