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THE BAD NEWS BEARS

By | October 2000

PART 2 OF OUR TRIBUTE TO THE MLB PLAYOFFS! Film Threat celebrates the MLB playoff games with classic baseball movie reviews…some definite home runs, and a few bunts. ENJOY! I coached little league baseball for four years and the truth is, kids swear. You’re not supposed to encourage it, but it’s pretty damn amusing when it happens…

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THE BAD NEWS BEARS

I coached little league baseball for four years and the truth is, kids swear. You're not supposed to encourage it, but it's pretty damn amusing when it...

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FIELD OF DREAMS

"Field of Dreams" is based on a novel by W.P. Kinsella that I thought to be practically unfilmable. It's about Ray Kinsella (Kevin Costner), a '60s...

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MAJOR LEAGUE

There is nothing wrong with grade-A prime aged Angus beef, but sometimes all you really want is a McDonald's hamburger. "Major League" is the quarter...

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A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN

This was probably supposed to be a feminist manifesto, but the men steal the picture. Jon Lovitz plays the wonderfully weasely baseball scout Ernie...

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EIGHT MEN OUT

It's hard to believe now that baseball players were ever underpaid and mistreated, but in the early part of the century players took what they were...

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ED

There's a 1949 movie starring Ray Milland called "It Happens Every Spring". Milland plays a college professor who invents a concoction of some sort that,...

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GET CARTER

Every time Hollywood decides to remake a treasured classic, you have to ask yourself why. The original "Get Carter" from 1971 may only be a cult film in...

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TRAGOS

During the 1990s, Berkeley-based filmmaker Antero Alli created a series of challenging features, shorts and documentaries that dissected (with alternating...

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INCISION

Perhaps the best way to approach this compilation of three, quarter century-old surreal short films by Pegarty Long is from a philosophical perspective; a...

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BURNING PASSION

Old wives' tales warn of a wide variety of horrible calamities which would befall adolescent men who indulged in masturbation. Hairy palms. Going blind....

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