Baseball's Two-Sport Stars
The biggest star in the history of baseball, Babe Ruth, was known for drinking, smoking, and competitive eating level of consumption of...
Hot Fuzz and To Catch a Thief
This month I watched an old favorite from Edgar Wright, Hot Fuzz (2007) and an old movie I had never seen before from Alfred Hitchcock,...
The Bobby Grich-verse
The second base position is one of the least represented in the Hall of Good Enough. It’s the one position that has the least expectation...
Fantasy Movie Making in the MCU Part 1
Around the time that Stan Lee died Filmstruck posted a short documentary about his relationship with french director Alain Resnais whose...
Catching Up With 2018
Last year was a great year for movies, however, for the most part the movies that I like the most missed out on awards and nominations...
The Darjeeling Limited and Strangers on a Train
Strangers on a Train (1951) is one of the first movies in this batch that I had not seen before it came up as a movie of the month so I...
The Lefty Knuckleballer
This Saturday I put the White Sox/Blue Jays game to see that the Blue Jays were starting a left hander who throws a knuckleball, Ryan...
Ghost Dog and Rashomon
Recently, I was checking off my list of reviewed Jim Jarmusch movies on Letterboxd and had a little trouble finding a streaming option...
The Reds' Curse
I’ve always loved opening day for the pageantry and optimism around the league. For decades, the very first game of Opening Day was given...
Inception and Spellbound
Alfred Hitchcock was fascinated by the subconscious. In the 1940’s books about Freud were on the coffee tables everywhere in Los Angeles....
