Marxism · Philosophy · Politics · Sports · Theory
Bennett Miller’s 2008 film Moneyball depicts the unfolding on-screen of a contradiction. Moneyball as an idea is a theoretical understanding of how the game of baseball works (based on a[…]
Biopic · Business · Men & Masculinity · Sports
If Ferrari is arguably Mann’s most flawed protagonist, he is also one of his most tragic – fully sold to a system that requires him to develop an almost inhuman[…]
The unfinished projects to which Welles devoted his energies began in July 1961. This was exactly twenty-five years after the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, the year in which[…]
African American · Animation · Franchises & Series · Sports
The implication is that fun is what is ultimately being played for – that fun is freedom’s goal, the reason that liberty is desirable at all. Michael knows that if[…]
African American · Documentaries · Sports
Muhammad Ali was one of the great cultural figures of the 20th century, and of course, one of its most brilliant and inspiring sports figures, equally adept in the ring[…]
Film Technology & History · Sports
There was just one hitch: Rector and his camera operators had to be inside the camera. * * * On March 17, 1897, in an open-air arena in Carson City,[…]
Actors & Personalities · Interviews · Sports
“And then he said, ‘It’s like a Greek tragedy. The only problem is, I’m the subject.'”
Clint Eastwood continues to surprise and thrill
Are you ready for some rural idiocy?1
This feel-good movie doesn’t
“Invincible” Herzog does it again
