Tag: Sports

  • American Made / Battle of the Sexes / Stronger

    American Made / Battle of the Sexes / Stronger

    Welcome to another edition of Mini-Review Roundup where we present smaller reviews of several movies at once. Up this month: American Made, Battle of the Sexes, and Stronger.   American Made   Scientology may be a made-up religion, but they’ve clearly found the cure for aging. Tom Cruise hasn’t had a birthday in 30 years.…

  • Downhill Racer

    Downhill Racer

    In junior high, I was given the most fantastic textbook. That might seem an oxymoron to you and maybe I had low standards at the time, but it was an English textbook, and what I remember are the short stories, several of which among the best I’ve ever read. One of them, published in 1980,…

  • True/False Film Festival 2017 Day 3

    True/False Film Festival 2017 Day 3

    It always takes me a day or two to adjust to a film festival schedule: wake up early to sit in a theater; cram meals in during short breaks; stay late at Q&A sessions; then go to bed even later writing about what you saw. Unfortunately, I’m usually only adjusted during the third and fourth…