Baseball Movies · Films: B · Reviews: B
Trouble with the Curve
To a batter, a great curveball is so obvious and so frustrating at the same time. Robert Lorenz’s Trouble with the Curve is much the same.
Category: Films: B
Bullhead
Roskam shows the most confidence when things are unsettling and different from the genre underworld in which the plot resides.
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Blood Simple
Blood Simple is the start of something great: the Coen Brothers.
Baseball Movies · Films: B · Reviews: B
The Busher
A fascinating look at early baseball films and an un-perfected spin on something that has since gone on to be repeated countless times since.
Baseball Movies · Films: B · Reviews: B
Bottom of the Ninth
Although it might be a love story to baseball and the competitive spirit to win, it’s also redundant as a film when like footage and story lines can be found on any station that airs even a little bit of baseball.
The Boys: The Sherman Brothers’ Story
A fascinating behind-the-scenes documentary that charts not only a story of tremendous success but sibling rivalry as well.
Brewster McCloud
There is something delightful in the absurdity and chaos of the movie that kept my interest even as I struggled to pinpoint exactly what it was that I was watching.
Baseball Movies · Films: B · Reviews: B
Ball of Wax
In Daniel Kraus’ dark baseball film Ball of Wax, life on the diamond is clearly no longer a sport. It’s something sinister, like a virus refusing to let go of its host.
Baseball Movies · Films: B · Reviews: B · Sucky Sequels
The Bad News Bears Go to Japan
So how much more can they get out of cussing kiddies playing baseball? Apparently an additional 91 minutes – 91 painful, horrendous, baseball-bat-to-the-crotch-three-times minutes.
Baseball Movies · Films: B · Reviews: B · Sucky Sequels
The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training
The comedic value of kids talking like a bitter pirate with hemorrhoids and smoking [was] played out mid-way through the first film.
