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Are you, like me, trying to watch as much Olympics as you possibly can over the next week and a half? If you haven't already tuned into Gold Zone on Peacock, it's a total game changer. You'll watch more sports than you thought, and you might just find your new favorite that way. Structured similarly to NFL RedZone, Gold Zone is live from 7 a.m. ET ...
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If you're on the lookout for a new gambling film, Poolhall Junkies is a gritty early-aughts movie worth watching. Mars Callahan co-writes, directs, and stars in this cult favorite about a pool hustler, Johnny, forced to return to the game after his little brother ends up on the wrong side of a con with Johnny's former mentor (Chazz...
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You'll often hear people say "They don't make 'em like they used to," but in the case of Disney's Young Woman And The Sea, they very much made this one EXACTLY like they used to. And that's a good thing, especially for the oft-ignored "family film" genre. This movie, rated PG, tells the story of Gertrude Ederle (Daisy Ridley), one of the most...
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We're in the middle of the worst sports week of the year. Basketball and hockey have been over for weeks, baseball is taking its annual extended All-Star break, and football — either college or pro — doesn't start back up in earnest for well over a month. Enter HBO and Netflix, both of whom know that football fans are positively STARVING for...
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We're truly in the golden age of sports documentaries. Over the past few years, Netflix has released many interesting titles (Quarterback, the Untold series, Wrestlers), but the definitive docuseries about the historic Tom Brady/Bill Belichick-led New England Patriots is on Apple TV+. Aptly titled The Dynasty: New England Patriots, the absorbing...
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The classic "underdog sports story" genre gains a new entry with Taika Waititi's perfectly enjoyable Next Goal Wins. Based (very loosely) on the 2014 documentary of the same name, Next Goal Wins opens with real footage of a world-record setting blowout during the 2001 FIFA World Cup qualifiers — Australia 31, American Samoa 0. The movie then...
Football season is in full swing, baby! As someone who grew up with sports but never truly played one, I can wholeheartedly recommend adding Remember the Titans to your fall watchlist. The Disney film from 2000 tells the true story of a newly-integrated Virginian high school football team in the early 1970s as they learn to put race aside and...
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