With Carson Lund’s ‘Eephus’ — about the final game in an amateur league of aging players — hitting the big screen, a THR film ...
Two contemporary films reimagined the stories we tell about the sport.
Which is not a bad description of “Eephus,” a tiny but nearly perfect baseball movie that ambles into area theaters this weekend. Some diamond classics swing for the fences: “Bull Durham ...
Except to chase a foul ball or two, the movie stays within the lines of Soldier Field, the nondescript Massachusetts baseball field they’re playing on sometime in the 1990s. It spans nine innings, ...
Baseball movies are so often engineered for big-game glory moments, they’ve forgotten the part that’s like an afternoon game of catch. (Something “Bull Durham” filmmaker Ron Shelton got ...
Note, I did not say “if you love baseball movies.” I said baseball itself. Because this film is basically a complete baseball game. All nine innings are played, and the film’s leisurely pace ...
Lund says he never much cared for baseball movies. All of them, he thinks, lack the rhythms of the game because, as with a pitch clock, they are “ultimately subservient to the demands of ...
To honor the film and the genre, not to mention the start of a new MLB season at the end of the month, here is a ranked list of the 10 greatest baseball movies of all time. Unlike with a list of ...
Except to chase a foul ball or two, the movie stays within the lines of Soldier Field, the nondescript Massachusetts baseball field they’re playing on sometime in the 1990s. It spans nine ...
Except to chase a foul ball or two, the movie stays within the lines of Soldier Field, the nondescript Massachusetts baseball field they’re playing on sometime in the 1990s. It spans nine ...