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The Ringer (2005)

The Ringer (2005)

The premise of The Ringer is so politically incorrect that you feel like laughing at it could easily buy you a one-way ticket to hell: go directly to hell,...

Jennifer
Ice Castles (2010)

Ice Castles (2010)

I can just about guarantee that any girl born in the early 70s has gone through the slumber-party right of passage called Ice Castles. The original 1978 movie starred...

Linda
42

42

After seeing the All-American heart-tugging baseball movie 42, I was hoping to get a good sense of the man who broke racial barriers in professional American baseball as the...

Linda
Raging Bull

Raging Bull

I always remember my favorite college professor writing the words, “Good stuff, for what it is” on the top of a story I had labored over for most of...

Jennifer
Trouble With the Curve (2012)

Trouble With the Curve (2012)

Clint Eastwood has been trying to tell us something with his movies for the past several years, and I’m finally starting to get the memo: he is old. Apparently...

Jennifer
The Blind Side

The Blind Side

This is one of those stories that would be cloying and eyeball-rolling if it were not true (or at least we’re told it is true). A hulking practically mute...

Linda
Chasing Mavericks (2012)

Chasing Mavericks (2012)

The film tells the true story of teenaged surfer Jay Moriarty (Jonny Weston), whose road to sports-world stardom was paved by chance, hardship and raw talent. Rescued from near...

Linda
Here Comes the Boom

Here Comes the Boom

James stars as high-school biology teacher Scott Voss, whose apathy towards his job and his students is rivaled only by his lack of desire to do much of anything...

Linda
Going for Gold (2012)

Going for Gold (2012)

Considering that the 2012 London Summer Olympics cost $13 billion to produce (!), imagine a city trying to throw an Olympic party a couple years after a war? That...

Linda
American Experience: Jesse Owens

American Experience: Jesse Owens

American Olympic legend Jesse Owens’ rise as a young track star began in Cleveland, where his natural talents were noticed in junior high school by a white coach who...

Linda
Chariots of Fire (1981)

Chariots of Fire (1981)

Though Chariots of Fire won the Oscar for Best Picture in 1981, it is one of those winners that probably would have slowly faded into film history as a...

Linda
The Cutting Edge (1992)

The Cutting Edge (1992)

Why is The Cutting Edge still so enjoyable? The two decades since its initial release reveals the cheesy 80’s music (in a movie made in the early 90s), the...

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