“The Blind Side” is a true story of Michael Oher, a homeless and traumatized youngster who became an All-American football player and first-round NFL draft pick after being adopted by a loving family of Leigh Anne Tuohy and Sean Tuohy.
Leigh Anne Tuohy takes him in, and with the help of her husband Sean, transformative changes begin to take place in Michael’s life. He learns the value of hard work and education, and he slowly starts to believe in himself.
The Tuohys eventually adopt Michael, and he goes on to attend Ole Miss on a full football scholarship. In the NFL, he becomes one of the league’s top offensive linemen, playing a pivotal role in helping the Baltimore Ravens win the Super Bowl.
“The Blind Side” is a heartwarming tale of hope and redemption that demonstrates the power of family, faith, and love.
For the fans of movies like “The Blind Side,...
Leigh Anne Tuohy takes him in, and with the help of her husband Sean, transformative changes begin to take place in Michael’s life. He learns the value of hard work and education, and he slowly starts to believe in himself.
The Tuohys eventually adopt Michael, and he goes on to attend Ole Miss on a full football scholarship. In the NFL, he becomes one of the league’s top offensive linemen, playing a pivotal role in helping the Baltimore Ravens win the Super Bowl.
“The Blind Side” is a heartwarming tale of hope and redemption that demonstrates the power of family, faith, and love.
For the fans of movies like “The Blind Side,...
- 7/12/2022
- by Israr
- buddytv.com
With June comes summer, and Netflix’s selection of films this month reflects that. The streamer has added several new films to watch for the month of June, including classics alongside some of their newer originals. Some of the movies that didn’t make the cut for this list, but are still new to Netflix in June include “Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy,” “Mission: Impossible,” “The Amazing Spider-Man,” “The Hurt Locker” and “Titanic.”
The following batch of films offers something many an audience member, from the heartfelt stories that have their ups and downs, animated films that still teach solid lessons and even an inspirational sports movie.
Read on to discover or re-discover the best new movies on Netflix this month.
“Steel Magnolias” (1989) Columbia Pictures
Boasting a brilliant cast of powerful female actresses, “Steel Magnolias” compliments “Hustle” and “We Are Marshall” in the vein of triumphs and tragedies. M...
The following batch of films offers something many an audience member, from the heartfelt stories that have their ups and downs, animated films that still teach solid lessons and even an inspirational sports movie.
Read on to discover or re-discover the best new movies on Netflix this month.
“Steel Magnolias” (1989) Columbia Pictures
Boasting a brilliant cast of powerful female actresses, “Steel Magnolias” compliments “Hustle” and “We Are Marshall” in the vein of triumphs and tragedies. M...
- 6/12/2022
- by Dessi Gomez and Drew Taylor
- The Wrap
The Super Bowl closes out an exciting season of NFL football this Sunday with a strong match-up between the Philadelphia Eagles and New England Patriots. So for fans to bide their time in the many months before another kick-off, it’s time to turn your attentions to the greatest football films of all time. There are all kinds of football-based films out there to enjoy — from dramas to comedies, and even an award-winning documentary — and we’ve collected the top 12 here in our photo gallery, ranked from worst to best.
In paring down the list, we had to answer the question: “Just what is a football movie?” We didn’t include “The Blind Side,” for example, because though its central character plays football, the film is primarily about many other things. And while Act 3 of Robert Altman‘s “M*A*S*H” is made up of what is arguably the...
In paring down the list, we had to answer the question: “Just what is a football movie?” We didn’t include “The Blind Side,” for example, because though its central character plays football, the film is primarily about many other things. And while Act 3 of Robert Altman‘s “M*A*S*H” is made up of what is arguably the...
- 2/3/2018
- by Tom O'Brien and Chris Beachum
- Gold Derby
Mid-August means it's high time for Fantasy Football in America, and you know what that means: It's almost Actual Football time!
As gridiron groupies everywhere spend (company?) hours studying the stats, fretting over keepers and ranking players by position, we decided to draft our own dream team of football studs from flicks.
Sure, they're not all technically pros (try telling us Rudy wouldn't make an equally dynamic benchwarmer on the Buffalo Bills), but they're all well worth roster slots on our squad.
Qb: Willie Beamen ('Any Given Sunday')
Qb: Bobby Boucher ('The Waterboy')
Qb: Paul Crewe ('The Longest Yard')
Qb: Jonathan Moxon ('Varsity Blues')
Qb: Shane Falco ('The Replacements')
Wr: Vince Papale ('Invincible')
Wr: Rod Tidwell ('Jerry Maguire')
De: Daniel "Rudy" Ruettiger ('Rudy')
De: Steve Lattimer ('The Program')
Dl: Michael Oher ('The Blind Side')
Captain/Utility: Jimmy "Dodge...
As gridiron groupies everywhere spend (company?) hours studying the stats, fretting over keepers and ranking players by position, we decided to draft our own dream team of football studs from flicks.
Sure, they're not all technically pros (try telling us Rudy wouldn't make an equally dynamic benchwarmer on the Buffalo Bills), but they're all well worth roster slots on our squad.
Qb: Willie Beamen ('Any Given Sunday')
Qb: Bobby Boucher ('The Waterboy')
Qb: Paul Crewe ('The Longest Yard')
Qb: Jonathan Moxon ('Varsity Blues')
Qb: Shane Falco ('The Replacements')
Wr: Vince Papale ('Invincible')
Wr: Rod Tidwell ('Jerry Maguire')
De: Daniel "Rudy" Ruettiger ('Rudy')
De: Steve Lattimer ('The Program')
Dl: Michael Oher ('The Blind Side')
Captain/Utility: Jimmy "Dodge...
- 8/15/2011
- by Dustin Glick
- NextMovie
Leigh Anne Tuohy (Sandra Bullock) in The Blindside
Aron Ralston (James Franco) in 127 Hours
Aileen Wornos (Charlize Theron) in Monster
Mark Whitacre (Matt Damon) in The Informant
John Dillinger (Johnny Depp) in Public Enemies
Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg (Tom Cruise) in Valkyrie
Jack Lengyel (Matthew McConaughey) in We Are Marshall
Elizabeth Gilbert (Julia Roberts) in Eat, Pray, Love
Julie Powell (Amy Adams) in Julie and Julia
Mark Zuckerberg (Jesse Eisenberg) in The Social Network
Harvey Milk (Sean Penn) in Milk
Chris McCandless (Emile Hirsch) in Into the Wild
Chris Gardner in The Pursuit of Happyness
John Grogan in Marley & Me
Gary Gaines (Billy Bob Thornton) in Friday Night Lights
Frank Abagnale (Leo DiCaprio) in Catch Me If You Can
John Forbes Nash, Jr. (Russell Crowe) in A Beautiful Mind
Beverly Donofrio (Drew Barrymore) in Riding in Cars with Boys
King Leonidas (Gerard Butler) in 300...
Aron Ralston (James Franco) in 127 Hours
Aileen Wornos (Charlize Theron) in Monster
Mark Whitacre (Matt Damon) in The Informant
John Dillinger (Johnny Depp) in Public Enemies
Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg (Tom Cruise) in Valkyrie
Jack Lengyel (Matthew McConaughey) in We Are Marshall
Elizabeth Gilbert (Julia Roberts) in Eat, Pray, Love
Julie Powell (Amy Adams) in Julie and Julia
Mark Zuckerberg (Jesse Eisenberg) in The Social Network
Harvey Milk (Sean Penn) in Milk
Chris McCandless (Emile Hirsch) in Into the Wild
Chris Gardner in The Pursuit of Happyness
John Grogan in Marley & Me
Gary Gaines (Billy Bob Thornton) in Friday Night Lights
Frank Abagnale (Leo DiCaprio) in Catch Me If You Can
John Forbes Nash, Jr. (Russell Crowe) in A Beautiful Mind
Beverly Donofrio (Drew Barrymore) in Riding in Cars with Boys
King Leonidas (Gerard Butler) in 300...
- 12/1/2010
- by Dustin Rowles
What should have been an inspirational story about fortitude and courage in the face of mind-numbing tragedy becomes a compendium of sports cliches in We Are Marshall. Although based on a true story, the studio development process has produced a film in which real-life characters feel thinly motivated and insubstantial and "composite" characters -- meaning fictional ones -- are nothing more than ill-conceived dramatic devices. Young men and sports fans represent the film's major audience, which is a shame because the story, properly told, should not be a sports movie at all. Yet line by line, scene by scene, the emphasis falls on the wrong things.
On Saturday evening, Nov. 14, 1970, a charter jet carrying Marshall University's football team, its coaches, staff and boosters, returning from a game in North Carolina, crashed in the Appalachian Mountains minutes before its schedule landing in Huntington, W.Va. In a moment, an entire football program and the heart and soul of the small town vanished. No one survived.
The next year, a new football team took the field lead by head coach Jack Lengyel, an outsider hired by university president Dr. Donald Dedmon to rebuild the program. He used a mix of junior varsity and injured players who didn't make the North Carolina trip, walk-ons, basketball players and true freshmen, who in those days were only able to play because of an NCAA waiver. This is the story that screenwriter Jamie Linden (from a story by Cory Helms and Linden) and director McG (the "Charlie's Angels" films) fumble away with blatant sentimentality, poorly sketched characters and forced dialogue.
The first thing that puts you off is Matthew McConaughey's odd take on playing coach Lengyel. Outfitted in some of the worst examples of that era's clothing styles and sideburns that threaten to never quit, McConaughey ambles into the movie as if it were an off-kilter comedy. His reasons for eagerly pursuing for the job -- in reality he was the university's third choice -- are never explored. Instead, the movie accents his breezy self-confidence and quirky manners in his approach to people still in shock over the tragedy. This makes the coach come off as an opportunist or at least someone insensitive to the situation.
His assistant coach, Red Dawson (Matthew Fox), who missed the flight for a recruitment visit, is a real character with a real problem about stepping back onto the gridiron. The same goes for Nate Ruffin (Anthony Mackie), an injured linebacker who lost all his teammates but fights to continue the program. He is easily the movie's most vividly drawn character.
But the other characters dreamed up by the filmmakers -- Paul Griffen (Ian McShane), a father who lost his son in the crash; Annie (Kate Mara), a cheerleader engaged to his son; and Tom Bogdan (Brian Geraghty), wallowing in guilt that he missed the flight by oversleeping -- feel fraudulent from the get-go. Indeed, the cheerleader is completely extraneous.
Where the focus should be on how people find a way to go on with life, this film dwells excessively on Paul's bitterness over the university's failure to suspend the football program. While some town folks did feel that way, this was not the major issue the film would have you believe. Most people wanted a football team. Even President Nixon sent an encouraging telegram.
Instead of showing how the community sought to heal itself by re-investing emotionally in its team, the movie returns time and again to the football field to demonstrate how the new coach tinkers with the offense and gives pep talks. In other words, it turns into a movie about football.
Technical credits are adequate, but the football action falls short of the standards established by such films as Any Given Sunday and Friday Night Lights. Runs, tackles and fumbles look staged. The editing further confuses things during plays with annoying cut-aways to shots of fans in the stands or coaches screaming on the sidelines. This is a movie destined to look at the wrong things.
On Saturday evening, Nov. 14, 1970, a charter jet carrying Marshall University's football team, its coaches, staff and boosters, returning from a game in North Carolina, crashed in the Appalachian Mountains minutes before its schedule landing in Huntington, W.Va. In a moment, an entire football program and the heart and soul of the small town vanished. No one survived.
The next year, a new football team took the field lead by head coach Jack Lengyel, an outsider hired by university president Dr. Donald Dedmon to rebuild the program. He used a mix of junior varsity and injured players who didn't make the North Carolina trip, walk-ons, basketball players and true freshmen, who in those days were only able to play because of an NCAA waiver. This is the story that screenwriter Jamie Linden (from a story by Cory Helms and Linden) and director McG (the "Charlie's Angels" films) fumble away with blatant sentimentality, poorly sketched characters and forced dialogue.
The first thing that puts you off is Matthew McConaughey's odd take on playing coach Lengyel. Outfitted in some of the worst examples of that era's clothing styles and sideburns that threaten to never quit, McConaughey ambles into the movie as if it were an off-kilter comedy. His reasons for eagerly pursuing for the job -- in reality he was the university's third choice -- are never explored. Instead, the movie accents his breezy self-confidence and quirky manners in his approach to people still in shock over the tragedy. This makes the coach come off as an opportunist or at least someone insensitive to the situation.
His assistant coach, Red Dawson (Matthew Fox), who missed the flight for a recruitment visit, is a real character with a real problem about stepping back onto the gridiron. The same goes for Nate Ruffin (Anthony Mackie), an injured linebacker who lost all his teammates but fights to continue the program. He is easily the movie's most vividly drawn character.
But the other characters dreamed up by the filmmakers -- Paul Griffen (Ian McShane), a father who lost his son in the crash; Annie (Kate Mara), a cheerleader engaged to his son; and Tom Bogdan (Brian Geraghty), wallowing in guilt that he missed the flight by oversleeping -- feel fraudulent from the get-go. Indeed, the cheerleader is completely extraneous.
Where the focus should be on how people find a way to go on with life, this film dwells excessively on Paul's bitterness over the university's failure to suspend the football program. While some town folks did feel that way, this was not the major issue the film would have you believe. Most people wanted a football team. Even President Nixon sent an encouraging telegram.
Instead of showing how the community sought to heal itself by re-investing emotionally in its team, the movie returns time and again to the football field to demonstrate how the new coach tinkers with the offense and gives pep talks. In other words, it turns into a movie about football.
Technical credits are adequate, but the football action falls short of the standards established by such films as Any Given Sunday and Friday Night Lights. Runs, tackles and fumbles look staged. The editing further confuses things during plays with annoying cut-aways to shots of fans in the stands or coaches screaming on the sidelines. This is a movie destined to look at the wrong things.
- 12/14/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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