This Christmas my two big gifts were the Criterion Olympic Box Set and the James Bond Collection Box Set. As the world is sheltered in place, these box sets have proven themselves as perfect pass times to distract from cabin fever staying in and the grim news of the wo...

While these are both crime thrillers, there isn't a lot that is thematically common between these movies. They do both share two exceptionally suspenseful scenes of main characters trying to escape undetected. Marnie is a 1964 Alfred Hitchcock movie about a woman that...

Oh Greta, you get me.

I don't have the same intimate love of film my husband has.  Usually they serve as the background noise in my overly responsible feeling day-to-day life- a TV on in the back ground.  So when I asked Pete to watch the kids so I could see the new Lit...

This Christmas my wife gifted me the 100 Years of Olympic Films box set from Criterion Collection. I’ve been pulling out documentaries from it pretty much at random and recently I landed on Visions of Eight, the somewhat experimental documentary about the 1972 Munich s...

This year I made it a little early through the movies of five years ago for the 2009 Hindsight Awards. This is my project to watch through the movies from five and ten years ago to see what held up, what passed me by at the time and what grew stale. I’ve made a top eve...

Just about two years ago I kicked off the Hall of Good Enough with a mock Hall of Fame ballot. Two Hall of Fame classes later and six of those ten players, Vlad Guerrero, Trevor Hoffman, Chipper Jones, Edgar Martinez, Mike Mussina and Jim Thome were inducted and Fred M...

Here is a collection of the MLB players who have proven themselves to be Good Enough!

C

Moe Berg

Bill Freehan

Elston Howard

Javy Lopez

Thurman Munson

Jorge Posada

Jason Varitek

1B

Dolph Camilli

Jeff Conine

Prince Fielder

Andres Galarraga

Jason Giambi (2)

Mark Grace

Scott Hatteberg

Todd...

The Washington Nationals won the first World Series in their franchise history and the first for a DC baseball team since 1925. That's a drought that includes two different Washington Senators teams (now the Twins and Rangers), the Montreal Expos and the current team,...

This year I made it a little early through the movies of five years ago for the 2014 Hindsight Awards. This is my project to watch through the movies from five and ten years ago to see what held up, what passed me by at the time and what grew stale. I’ve made a top eve...

This month North By Northwest was showing at our local theater but my wife and I decided we would make an at home date night out of watching it while our toddler was being babysat in the other room rather than risk going out during the recent blackouts in California. L...