Also ranks #2 on The Best MMA Movies Of All Time 8 Moneyball Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill, Philip Seymour Hoffman 147 votes Based on a true story, this sports drama centers around Oakland Athletics general manager Billy Beane (Brad Pitt) as he attempts to transform his underfunded baseball team in...
A movie about a seemingly unstoppable government operative, Haywire was actually born out of defeat. Soderbergh had just parted ways with Sony over its adaptation of Moneyball, and in the midst of his funk, the dejected director happened to catch MMA fighter Gina Carano on TV. “She had just...
and also the meaning of death—which sort of seems like the same thing. AFAIK, death itself is nothing; what seems to matter is the life one misses out on and/or the impact of death on the lives of your loved ones. Let’s put aside the loved ones for a moment...
Moneyball Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill, Philip Seymour Hoffman 699 votes Moneyball is a sports drama that dives into the world of American baseball. Billy Beane (Brad Pitt) is the general manager of the Oakland Athletics, a team struggling with financial constraints. With his conventional methods failing...
What is the cultural impact of the film? How strong are the rest of its innards – the acting, the writing, the way its shot, edited, etc? While this represents to large majority of how I compiled my list, I also felt it was important to consider… ...
in December (!). I have only read 7 books in 2013 (“Thinking Fast and Slow”, “Calico Joe”, “Born to Run”, “Les Cow-boys d’Airbus”, “Personal Memoirs of US Grant”, “Moneyball”and “The Art of War”for a second time). I think I will soon write a post about them...
a business venture that will have major ripple effects across the entire NBA hierarchy of power. From director Steven Soderbergh,High Flying Birdcombines the ingenuity of richly scripted sports dramas likeMoneyballand infuses the narrative with energies that only a Soderbergh film can deliver. This ...
Here’s the thing, though: This debate actually ended a long time ago in baseball. Every front office has people who mine advanced stats and try to value players objectively. Some front offices give it more weight than others, but all of them understand the value of the Moneyball approach ...
Remember: my project is to go down into the darkness of my inner self and find that raw, creative impulse. News publications focus on social tensions, explanations of current events, cultural trends, laws, politics and, when talking about art, how it relates to those things. Good journalism...
, many folks thought that nobody cared about Avatar, that the first movie had no cultural impact, and that the success of the first movie was a fluke that wouldn't be repeated. But this is a situation that James Cameron has found himself in repeatedly, both with the first Avatar as ...