Release date: 2011Friday Night Lights accomplishes something that few television dramas are able to do: It betters the 2004 film (starring Billy Bob Thornton) on which the series is based. Set in Dillon, Texas, where football–even on the high school level–is everything, Friday Night Lights is a compelling drama with a football subplot. Poignantly and […]
O.J.: Made in America
ESPN 30 for 30 O.J.:Made in America is a very different show from FX’s American Crime Story which just played a short while ago. That was a very well done step by step rendition of his trial for the murder of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson. This, by contrast, is a documentary about every facet […]
The Legend of Bagger Vance
The Legend of Bagger Vance doesn’t break any new ground, but with Steven Pressfield’s inspirational novel to guide them, director Robert Redford and screenwriter Jeremy Leven have tilled fertile soil with a graceful touch. Redford does for golf what A River Runs Through It did for fly-fishing: the sport is a conduit for a philosophy […]
Cutting Edge
As far as ice-skating movies go or those that prominently feature the cold-bladed sport, this romantic movie is one of the best, thanks to utterly charming performances by underrated actors D. B. Sweeney and Moira Kelly. The couple play, respectively, a washed-up hockey player and a prima-donna skater who end up in doubles figure skating […]