A quarter-century ago, Kevin Costner hit a double-play, following up "Bull Durham" with "Field of Dreams" and becoming king of the sports movie. Twenty-five years later, as "Field of Dreams" marks its 25th anniversary (it was released on April 21, 1989), Costner is back with "Draft Day." The movie's about football, not baseball, and Costner's character plays in the executive suite, not on the field, but his mere presence still offers a reminder of great sports movies past.
And after all, isn't nostalgia a key element of sports movies? "Field of Dreams" makes this explicit -- we long for the sports heroes of our childhood, for a supposed long-gone golden age of our preferred sport, as a way of connecting with our past and bridging the generational divide that separates us as adults from our parents. Sports movies offer more than just the drama of winners and losers, or the journey from dream to achievement,...
And after all, isn't nostalgia a key element of sports movies? "Field of Dreams" makes this explicit -- we long for the sports heroes of our childhood, for a supposed long-gone golden age of our preferred sport, as a way of connecting with our past and bridging the generational divide that separates us as adults from our parents. Sports movies offer more than just the drama of winners and losers, or the journey from dream to achievement,...
- 4/20/2014
- by Gary Susman
- Moviefone
Betty ate the children! April Fools! No seriously, was this Matthew Weiner's idea of an April Fool's joke? If so, it was pretty good. It has gotta be said, the wildest thing this show does is the way they throw around fat makeup. It's hilarious that this is how Mw wrote in January Jones's pregnancy -- you think you can get pregnant on his show and get away with it?! I know it's wrong to laugh because she could've been sick, but fat-suited January Jones is like watching fat-suited Gwyneth Paltrow in Shallow Hal: laugh-out-loud funny and a gift to jealous women everywhere.
That said, I had to immediately re-watch because she was so big I couldn't see anything else the first time around. Two side notes: Mw has said he thinks people aren't sympathetic with Betty's character because of January's beauty. Is this his way of testing us?...
That said, I had to immediately re-watch because she was so big I couldn't see anything else the first time around. Two side notes: Mw has said he thinks people aren't sympathetic with Betty's character because of January's beauty. Is this his way of testing us?...
- 4/3/2012
- by Samantha Zalaznick
- Aol TV.
I was shocked to see that some readers called Mad Men "un-gay" last week. Are we watching the same show? Mad Men is about trembling white-collar tools on the cusp of social change, and the homosexuals of 2012 should be laughing at them. If these dudes had our intuition and capacity for understanding, they'd be much better off. As such, I find the show to be a suspenseful exercise in fretful inevitability, and an aesthetically pleasing one, to boot. Who is supposed to appreciate Joan's knowing smirk except gays? What about Peggy's weariness? Roger's Donkey Kong sophistication? Exactly. To me they're little candies. Welcoming, delightful, and sorta sinful.
It was a grim episode for Ms. Betty Francis last night, who returned to Mad Men sporting extra poundage, a tumor, and a hat full of misery. But still a fabulous episode for us! Here are the five faaaaabbest moments from "Tea Leaves,...
It was a grim episode for Ms. Betty Francis last night, who returned to Mad Men sporting extra poundage, a tumor, and a hat full of misery. But still a fabulous episode for us! Here are the five faaaaabbest moments from "Tea Leaves,...
- 4/2/2012
- by virtel
- The Backlot
This is a Recap of Boardwalk Empire Season 1, Episode 6, entitled “Nights In Ballygran”. There were midgets dressed as leprechauns dancing around with pots of gold. You’ll want to read on. The definition of meta: A subplot about a bunch of midgets who demand a pay raise to degradingly dress up like leprechauns and dance at Nucky’s St. Patrick’s Day banquet, but in real life, the Boardwalk Empire producers have to hire midget actors to play the characters who don’t want to degradingly dress up like leprechauns but eventually do. Kind of awkward, right? Like, the whole time I was watching Shallow Hal, I couldn’t pay attention to the movie because I felt too bad for the actresses they cast as the “ugly” girls that Hal kept seeing, and for the producers who had to hold casting calls for “ugly girls” and tell a select few of them “congratulations,...
- 10/19/2010
- by Dan Hopper
- BestWeekEver
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