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Friday, August 7th, 2009The Babe is a biopic of George Herman ‘Babe’ Ruth. The film follows his seemingly bi-polar life from being abandoned by his father at an orphanage, to the discovery of his tremendous home-run hitting ability and finally to his later days. Several items from his legend are included: His calling of of a home run, […]
61*
Tuesday, August 4th, 2009Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle are on pace to break the most hallowed record in U.S. sports, Babe Ruth’s single-season 60 home runs. Any record set after 154 games of the new 162-game schedule will have an asterisk. The film follows the boys of summer, on and off the field: their friendship, the stresses […]
The Match
Thursday, July 16th, 2009The Match is a contemporary romantic comedy, set in the idyllic Highland village of Inverdoune. Wullie Smith, still carrying the physical and emotional scars of the childhood death of his younger brother, is the village milkman. A young man whose potential is concealed his gently diffident exterior, Wullie is locally known for his remarkable T.F.R. […]
The Cup
Sunday, July 12th, 2009While the soccer World Cup is being played in France, two young Tibetan refugees arrive at a monastery/boarding school in exile in India. Its atmosphere of serene contemplation is somewhat disrupted by soccer fever, the chief instigator being a young student, the soccer enthusiast Orgyen. Prevented by various circumstances from seeing the Cup finals on […]
The Football Factory
Friday, July 10th, 2009The Football Factory is more than just a study of the English obsession with football violence, its about men looking for armies to join, wars to fight and places to belong. A forgotten culture of Anglo Saxon males fed up with being told they’re not good enough and using their fists as a drug they […]
Bend It Like Beckham
Wednesday, July 8th, 2009Of East Indian origin of the Sikh faith, the Bhamra family have been settled in Great Britain for several years. They have two daughters, Pinky and Jessminder. While Pinky is in the process of getting married, Jessminder is preparing to play football - which is not acceptable to her parents. But Jessminder knows she is […]
Shaolin Soccer
Monday, July 6th, 2009Sing is a skilled Shaolin kung fu devotee whose amazing “leg of steel” catches the eye of a soccer coach. Together they assemble a squad of Sing’s former Shaolin brothers inspired by the big-money prize in a national soccer competition. Using an unlikely mix of martial arts and new found soccer skills, it seems an […]
Mystery, Alaska
Saturday, June 13th, 2009Starring Russell Crowe and Burt Reynolds, Mystery, Alaska is a hockey movie that will win hockey fans over. When Mystery, Alaska’s amateur hockey team accepts a challenge to play against the New York Rangers, the entire population must put their petty differences aside and pull together as their small town becomes the center of a […]
Les Boys
Thursday, June 11th, 2009Les Boys is a 1997 Quebec-made comedy film directed by Louis Saia. It has spawned three sequels and is the most successful Quebec made film series of all time, and one of the most successful Canadian-made film series of all time. This light- hearted comedy explores the male world through an amateur hockey team.
Surf’s Up
Tuesday, June 9th, 2009This animated surfing move follows a teenage penguin named Cody Maverick from his hometown of Shiverpool, Antarctica, where all of the other penguins think he’s nothing but a surfing fool, to the “Big Z Memorial Surf Off” on Pen Gu Island. Surfer pengui Cody is determined to win the most important competition in the world […]
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