With Carson Lund’s ‘Eephus’ — about the final game in an amateur league of aging players — hitting the big screen, a THR film critic ranks 10 other movies that took viewers out to the ballgame.
By Jordan Mintzer Baseball movies are more than a mere subgenre of sports movies; they’re a whole genre unto themselves. With nearly 200 feature-length titles, both fiction and documentary ...
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CHICAGO – Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com audio film review for the new film “Eephus,” a baseball film with an odd title, which refers to a slow curve pitch designed to disrupt the timing of ...
As an old guy, I play a lot of old-guy sports ... of any sport—will feel warm affection for the ambling, amiable baseball ...
A baseball movie will often spin a yarn about a band ... approach puts them in opposition to the team’s irritable old school manager (Philip Seymour Hoffman) and the craggy scouts who rely ...
A raffish old coot rounds the dugout at one point ... “Eephus” belongs with the great baseball movies not because of any major league ambitions but because it understands what the game ...
The old film studios had house styles ... farewell game with all the sentiment and ceremony it demands. In most baseball movies, the sport is just a part of some bigger drama off the field ...
In "Eephus," a group of middle-aged men gather to play one last game on their hometown baseball field before ... keeps track of balls and strikes on an old-school score card.