⚾ Baseball movie faves

Baseball is cinemaApril It s official the Braves are back in Atlanta They may not be winning but they are back Despite the frankly dire way we ve started the season there is nothing I love more than baseball Except maybe baseball movies I m headed to see Eephus the newest addition to the baseball canon at the Tara next week and in the run-up I ve been thinking about my favorite baseball movies I ve come down to three options all with different aims If I want to feel smart and cry a little bit Moneyball If I want to have fun and laugh Everybody Wants A few If I want to pour one out for the girls A League of Their Own yes it counts In honor of the true start of spring I would love to hear about specific of your favorite baseball movies Shoot me an email here Without further ado Action The Georgia premiere of the film Saffron Kingdom made in Georgia by filmmaker Arfat Sheikh will take place at Dahlberg Theatre Hall on April Individual tickets for the Atlanta Film Festival are now on sale In honor of National Poetry Month Soul Cinema Sundays is hosting a screening of Marc Levin s film Slam which put poet Saul Williams on the map The screening will take place on April at the Plaza Theatre Nielsen records for February shows that viewers are more likely to choose YouTube over a streaming system like Disney or Netflix The actor Val Kilmer known for his roles in films like Top Gun and Tombstone has passed away He was years old This week s newsletter includes a conversation with the very young filmmaking squad behind Hell of a Summer and two movie reviews The Friend and We Want the Funk Plus a new episode of Crash Zoom and specific reading and listening recommendations for your lunch break Thanks for reading Sammie Join Move For Grady on April With three cycling distances and two run walk options there s something for everyone Then celebrate your accomplishment and endorsement for Grady with a fun finish line celebration at Georgia State s Center Parc Stadium SPONSOR MESSAGEPhoto courtesy of NEONTalking Hell of a Summer with Fred Hechinger Finn Wolfhard and Billy Bryk Take Superbad and Friday the th and you ve got the basis for Hell of a Summer The new film written and directed by Finn Wolfhard and Billy Bryk follows a bunch of camp counselors as a masked maniac picks them off one by one That might sound like a carbon copy of Friday the th but when it comes down to it Hell of a Summer is more comedy than horror a teenage romp masquerading as a slasher flick Wolfhard and Bryk also star in the film as Chris and Bobby two of the witless teenage boys who will somehow be entrusted with the lives of children for the entire summer Fred Hechinger stars as Jason the teens only slightly older boss who no matter how estranged he feels from his teenage coworkers can t seem to leave camp life behind Read my interview with Hechinger Wolfhard and Bryk here Who s ready for spring and summer gardening SPONSORED BY LOVE IS LOVE COOPERATIVE FARM The worker-owner farmers of Love is Love Cooperative Farm have everything you need to grow an abundant kitchen garden for the spring and summer In addition to an enormous selection of certified organic vegetable herb and edible flower seedlings Love is Love Cooperative Farm s Annual Spring Plant Sale Family Day on the Farm offers free gardening and foraging workshops pursuits for young folks pop-up chefs farm tours music artisan vendors and more Stop by this Sat April from a m - p m See the full schedule of events here Photo provided by Bleecker StreetA very good boy can t save The Friend from disasterWEEKLY FILM REVIEW During one scene in The Friend an argument breaks out between two students in Iris s Naomi Watts writing class during a peer review session The argument arises between a girl and a particularly irritating boy who is criticizing the girl s main character She s too regular to be the main character of a story he says People like that are a dime a dozen What s the point The argument might as well refer to The Friend itself which is ostensibly about regular people Iris is a professor who lives alone in New York City dealing with her grief over losing her colleague and friend Walter Bill Murray to suicide As if dealing with that loss wasn t enough Walter has left his Great Dane Apollo under Iris s care From that description alone you can glean that The Friend is a heartbreaker a movie about everyday people and the everyday problems they face and how the love of a dog can make everything just a little bit better Sounds great right It could have been But The Friend unfortunately isn t able to capitalize on its premise Read my full review here Photo courtesy of Firelight Films We Want the Funk is both groovy and informativeWEEKLY FILM REVIEW We Want the Funk starts just as a documentary about funk music should with musician Marcus Miller slapping that bass Miller s bass solo sets the tone for the rest of We Want the Funk which is just as full of musical moments as it is talking head interviews in selected cases there are literal Talking Heads David Byrne makes an appearance Directed by Stanley Nelson and Nicole London the documentary traces the history of funk both musically and culturally through the eyes of a few of its greater part influential players It takes a closer look at funk s connections to other genres like Motown and gospel as well as its place within the Black liberation movement Check out my full review here Photo by Lola Scott design by Aaron StrandCrash Zoom Global Cinema Foundation survey and ChatGPT v Hayao Miyazaki Welcome to Crash Zoom a podcast where we take a deep dive into film and entertainment industry news Each week join me and my cohost indie filmmaker Aaron Strand as we explore how things happening at the highest level trickle down and affect the independent artist This week we discuss ChatGPT s viral Studio Ghibli images the new James Bond producers and more Check out the new episode here Join Move For Grady on April With three cycling distances and two run walk options there s something for everyone Then celebrate your accomplishment and assistance for Grady with a fun finish line celebration at Georgia State s Center Parc Stadium SPONSOR MESSAGELights Camera Action If you know anything about me you know that I love Dawson s Creek more than anything in the world More specifically I love Joshua Jackson AKA Pacey Witter who holds the belt for the Greatest High School Boyfriend in television history He now stars in Professional Odyssey one of the wildest and fun television shows to hit architecture television in quite specific time In this Vulture interview from Rebecca Alter Jackson talks about the television landscape over the syllabus of his career sex on screen and bringing the Cary Grant to Dr Max Bankman The Slate podcast Beliefs Gabfest is diving into specific great shows movies and books this week From The Studio Seth Rogan s love hate letter to Hollywood to Eephus Carson Lund s love hate letter to baseball there s plenty of great stuff out there to be excited about Check out the full episode here Val Kilmer passed away on Tuesday this week In a lovely tribute Scout Tafoya talks about what made the actor so special Val Kilmer gained a reputation for being arduous cagey sarcastic and possibly even insane but he was never boring Tafoya writes Your attention is his He got us Read the full piece here The post Baseball movie faves appeared first on Rough Draft Atlanta