The Friday Article Roundup: Taking Our Cue
This Week We’ve Racked Up: a middle-aged movie a middle-aged music genre a new cartoon…
The Friday Article Roundup Cheers Up
Three cheers for the FAR! For sports, for misheard song lyrics, for cheering itself! Cheer…
Sports Movies: A National Obsession
The Wikipedia list of sports movies is very badly curated. Okay, they specifically reject the…
Taco Break: Games Afoot!
One of the appeals of competition is its instant narrative. The rules, boundaries and histories…
Lunch Link: Errol Morris’s “Most Valuable Whatever”
“Most Valuable Whatever” (2015) dir. Errol Morris One of Errol Morris’s chief preoccupations is obsession. So…
Film on the Television (7/15/15): BULL DURHAM on MoMAX
Funny, profane, deeply sweet-natured, and with a cast full of walking charisma bombs (Susan Sarandon,…