“Angels in the Outfield” closely follows another movie about kids and baseball, “Little Big League.” Both are about how small boys control the destinies of major league teams. But while “Little Big League” is a smart movie about a kid who really understands baseball, “Angels” is a ...
Antonia's Line (1995) IMDB *** A movie about a wunderkind who becomes a mathematician. Wunderkind calculations, and a homological algebra lecture with commuting diagrams on blackboards. Clip on Oliver Knill's page. Apocalypse Now (1979) IMDB * Dennis Hopper (as the relatively sane one!) trie...
In that movie, she gave a riveting and heartbreaking performance as a drug-addicted actress who becomes increasingly disconnected from reality. That role propelled her into the elite of her country's thespians. Zech subsequently appeared in numerous high-profile German films, usually with name ...
Boeun (Moon Geun Young) is an ordinary high school girl who worries about grades and has a crush on her school's baseball team ace, Jungwoo. One day, Boeun's grandfather orders her to marry Sangmin (Kim Rae Won) because of a pact he made with Sangmin's grandfather during the Korean...
The biggest sinner in the theater crew would appear to be its eldest member, Heavy Metal Jeff. He’s a college kid who dropped out of school, moved back in with his parents and recently weaned himself off cigarettes. HMJ idolizes the kind of purity Mr. Pike represents, good old-fashioned...
You’d be hard pressed to find someone in the TV-loving world who couldn’t find something to like about this week’s Sleepy Hollow. The very strong episode has baseball, Fringe‘s John Noble and the Hug Heard ‘Round the World – aside from a new pair of pants for ol’ Ichabod, wh...
there is no doubt that the sports movie genre is full of incredible coaches. These are some of the most iconic characters in movie history, from a wise karate master from Okinawa to the general manager of a failing baseball team. Each has left their mark on the genre in one way or anot...
See Spot Runfollows David Arquette's Gordon Smith, a mailman always going toe to toe with pups. When his cute neighbor's kid needs a babysitter, he leaps at the opportunity, but he's really babysitting two. The boy, and a constantly-pooping police pup who has just scurried from his wit...
One of them is female star Mavis Washington who conceals her sexual identity to play on the team. Better than expected. King and Warren played in the NBA. Laurence Fishburne has a bit part as a street kid. The American Game (1979)… Stretch Graham, Brian Walker, Nathaniel Bellamy Jr., ...
Barbra Streisand’s song – which opens with the sparkling line, “Memories, like the corners of my mind” – was recorded for the film about the love affair between Streisand’s character and Robert Redford’s Hubbell Gardiner. Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door (Pat Garrett And Billy The Kid, ...