For decades now, Dwayne Johnson – the artist formally known as The Rock – has been something of a poster boy for the modern, blockbuster
Tag: Sports Movie
Him (2025) – Review
One place where the horror film has rarely set its cloven hoof is within that of the world of sports. Oh sure, Jason Voorhees sported
Happy Gilmore (1996) – Review
I have to confess, I never really got the Sandman for a while. Being that we never really got SNL over here and I was
F1 (2025) – Review
Back in 1990, Jerry Bruckheimer had a can’t lose idea – what if he took all the basics from the smash hit fighter jet movie,
Rush (2013) – Review
There are seemingly two ways to properly come at a sports movie (we won’t count the third which are parodies like Baseketball and Dodgeball); the
Driven (2001) – Review
Why is it that plots for sports movies are just so interchangeable? Most, if not all, throw at us a choice between a cocky youngster
Redline (2009) – Review
The beauty of Anime is that you can present a world effortlessly more exagerated than the ones we usually see in live action. Any sense
Karate Kid: Legends (2025) – Review
Over the last few months, my journey through the Karate Kid franchise has taken to some far stranger places than Encino or Bejing. I am
The Karate Kid (2010) – Review
80s fashions, nutzoid Vietnam vets, weird cultural appropriation, Joe Esposito’s “You’re The Best” blaring on the soundtrack – for a lot of people, The Karate
The Next Karate Kid (1994) – Review
Every now and then, a film series will deliver an entry that proves to be something called a franchise killer – an installment so despised
The Karate Kid Part III (1989) – Review
Just how much mileage can you get out of a young Karate student and his bond with this aging mentor? Well, if you’re John G.
The Karate Kid Part II (1986) – Review
While I’ve always found The Karate Kid to be too twee for my personal tastes, I have to say I do get why the high-kicking
The Karate Kid (1984) – Review
It had to happen sooner or later…There comes a time when every diligent movie blogger finds when they’ve no choice but to have to sit
For Love Of The Game (1999) – Review
After a career that begun with a bunch of Detroit film students hurling both a camera and each other around a cabin in Tennessee, the
Challengers (2024) – Review
Two opponents stand opposite each other, separated only by distance and a single net. One of them serves and the two embark on an intense
No Holds Barred (1989) – Review
Certain sports are kind of hard to capture correctly on film when compared to other – I mean compare how many boxing and racing movies
Next Goal Wins (2023) – Review
Is it me, or has legendary Kiwi cut-up Taika Watiti lost his edge a bit? I only ask because after a string of heartfelt, indie
The Iron Claw (2024) – Review
Anyone even remotely familar with the world of wrestling knows that it’s a life that can cause way more damage than a stiff clothesline or
The Wrestler (2008) – Review
Until Darren Aronofsky’s The Wrestler stepped through the ropes to worldwide acclaim back in 2008, transferring the weird world of “Sports Entertainment” to the silver
Ferrari (2023) – Review
Sports biopics about cars seem to be a prevailing sub-genre these days, but even among the throng of revving engines and actual happenings, an entry
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