To celebrate baseball season we are wondering who your top fictional diamond screen star is? Remember Tab Hunter as Joe Hardy in Damn Yankees and Charlie Sheen as “Wild Thing” Vaughn in Major League?
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Tee Up Some Rare Footage of Golf Pros and Movie Stars
It’s a green day for golf and nostalgia fans with Golf Mania!, the latest in the fine line of archival short films in the series Lost & Rare Films and TV series from Festival Films. This smorgasbord of rarely seen…
Read more →Lost & Rare, Vol. 2: Sports Immortals: Classic Sports Films
And they’re off! Fore! Batter up! Fans of nostalgia and sports should have a field day with Lost & Rare, Vol. 2: Sports Immortals, a collection of vintage shorts and featurettes centering on athletic greats from the earlier-to-middle part of…
Read more →Get a Handle on Hollywood Rides a Bike
Movie stars on bicycles? Who would have thunk it? Well, there has been a book on movies stars in bathtubs, so why not? Steven Rea, film critic for The Philadelphia Inquirer, decided to marry his two obsessions—films and biking—into one…
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Miracle
You know the drill. Below is a classic movie photo with Jason’s caption. You’re encouraged to leave your own suggestion in the comment section below! “Scotty Bowman used watercolors when designing plays. Toe Blake preferred oils and even acrylics. Me? I like…
Read more →Hockey in Non-Hockey Films
With the road to the Stanley Cup commencing for the NHL it seems like as good a time as any to review how this sport has fared in Hollywood. But instead of travelling the well-worn path of such great hockey…
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Movie Poll: What’s Your Favorite Kurt Russell Role
Batter Up: Memorable Baseball Moments from Non-Baseball Movies
“The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It’s been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt, and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game;…
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