When I first got into tennis fandom and learned about the Billie Jean King-Bobby Riggs Battle of the Sexes of the 1970s, I assumed it was some sort of novelty sideshow. After all, when Agassi […]
Available via streaming and Redbox, “Chuck” was quietly in and out of theaters in 2017. The biopic’s titular character, Chuck Wepner (Liev Schreiber), is also under the radar: He was a local legend in Bayonne, […]
My “Million Dollar Baby” review, Brainerd Dispatch, Feb. 3, 2005
My “Dodgeball” review, Brainerd Dispatch, June 24, 2004
My “Bend It Like Beckham” review, Brainerd Dispatch, Aug. 7, 2003
“The Waterboy” – A waterboy-turned-linebacker teaches people to stop making fun of him, even though “there’s something wrong with his medulla oblongata.” It stars Adam Sandler and employs the always-effective revenge theme; how could it […]
