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Jamal Wallace
Nov 19, 2014
Published in
The Athletes
This one almost escaped us. From the brilliant Gus Van Sant film, “Finding Forrester” we have a film about friendship when a reclusive writer Sean Connery) befriends an inner city kid (Rob Brown) who is adept at poetry as he is in Basketball.
Jamal Wallace (Brown) has a chance to receive a full scholarship based on both his academics and hoops skills and through his new friendship with Forrester (Connery) they learn from each other. Realistically, Basketball plays a small role here, but this is a great film to watch.
Jimmy Grimble
Nov 17, 2014
Published in
The Athletes
Sure, “There’s Only One Jimmy Grimble” is predictable, but it is done so well that you don’t care if you know what is coming at every turn. Newcomer, Lewis McKenzie is perfect in what we think was his only role as Jimmy Grimble, a diehard Manchester City fan in a school of Manchester United fans, whose awkward nature makes him a natural target for bullying. This changes when he receives a pair of shoes once worn by a former Man City star, and confidence soars for young Grimble on the pitch. Again, very predictable, but you can’t help but cheer for him all the way!
Jake Huard
Nov 17, 2014
Published in
The Athletes
You don’t normally think of James Franco in an athletic role, nor if you saw the trailer for Annapolis, would you think of it as a boxing film, but despite the poor reviews and formulaic plot, Franco as James Huard, a cadet at Annapolis does not do a bad job. For us, we were content to fast forward through most of the film with the exception of the boxing, where Huard using the sport to gain respect from his peers and father. Ah, sports teaching us lessons again!
Herbie
Nov 17, 2014
Published in
The Athletes
If we can include Clyde the Orangutan and the Gopher from Caddyshack (both of which made the semi-finals in the Contributor section in the site’s opening year) than we have to have Herbie the Love Bug, the racing car that comes “alive” and can drive itself when necessary. As laughable as it sounds, this generated multiple movies for Disney and made them millions. Saying that, do you really that a Volkswagen Beetle is winning race, mind of its or not? Let’s see it beat KITT in a race!
