Every Sunday during football season, I wake up early, make some coffee, and then spend like 12 hours on my couch yelling at the television. It's one of the best feelings in the world. So when my ...
The baseball-movie canon is ample and largely agreed-upon, but the best football movies have less consensus behind them. That’s not to say there aren’t some well-acknowledged sports-movie classics ...
Way before Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce became the pop-culture crossover power couple of the moment, movies and football partnered up to birth the best of all sports-film subgenres. Just think of the ...
Movies about football can be hard to rank, if only because it depends on which flavor of football film you want. After all, we all have our favorites, and we all have our biases for what we want ...
The film follows the 1988 Permian High School Panthers football team, the expectations for which are sky-high. Set in Odessa, Texas, the film follows Coach Gary Gaines (Thornton), who enters the ...
I understand that this is subjective, and there’s plenty of classic (even great) football movies such as Friday Night Lights, The Replacements, Remember the Titans, The Waterboy and more, and I want ...
Stories about athletes striving for greatness have always made for compelling cinematic experiences. So it goes with all sports films, which — at their worst — can be conventional and formulaic ...
For about as long as movies have been around, Hollywood has been churning out patriotic American movies that make the country, and some of its most notable figures, look like larger than life icons.
Produced by Jordan Peele, this genre hybrid is too dull and diluted to offer any serious critique of American sports culture. Self-evident as that concept might be to anyone who’s ever heard of ...