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Balls of Fury
“Stop! This is Boring! Kill them Both!” I’m pissed off. A few hours have now passed since I finished watching 2007′s Balls of Fury, and I’m still angry about how bad was it. And that’s really saying...
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Pentathlon
“It’s the attack of the killer… athlete!” Modern Pentathlon is a ridiculous sport and that’s what makes it fantastic. The only event specifically created for the modern Olympic games it combines...
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Champions
“It is our duty to make a contribution.” For today’s selection I’m once again taking sip from the well of East Asian cinema, unlike last time, today I’m left with a bit of a bad taste in my mouth....
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Personal Best
“They are all dressed up, with nowhere to Released in 1982, today’s movie Personal Best chronicles the journey of a confused young track star, from failure at the 1976 Olympic trials, through to the...
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Goldengirl
“Everything about me is phoney.” Behold I bring you Goldengirl! She was made to be the best! She was programmed to do the impossible! She was the subject of a pretty damned mediocre movie. Honestly,...
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Walk, Don’t Run
“You say all you have to do is place an advertisement on the bulletin board?” I’m not generally a fan of romantic comedies. If I’m able to maintain this blog for a while, you’ll see that very few even...
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Lifting King Kong
“If you try your best and don’t give up, your life itself will be a gold medal.” Generally speaking, there are two kinds of sports movies that I enjoy: goofball comedies, and inspirational stories....
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Going for Gold
“Nobody would be the least surprised if we called it off.” After watching this movie, I realized that it was not actually a theatrical release, nevertheless here is the review. I may endeavor to get...
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Quick Take: Jim Thorpe– All American
“We regret that we allowed Jim Thorpe to compete” Jim Thorpe may well have been the greatest athlete in modern history. An All-American football player, he would go on to be a co-founder and first...
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Olympic Film Festival – Seventeen days in Review
See you in Sochi… maybe. Well the games in London have come and gone, and so has the One Movie Each Day Olympic Film Festival. While the last seventeen days have seen the greatest athletes in the world...
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