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5-Word 365 #263 – Midnight Sting
For day 4 of 5-Word’s Sports Movie Week, we’re going boxing.
5-Word 365 #262 – Necessary Roughness
As Sports Movie Week rattles on to day 3, we’re sticking with the classic American sports. Today, football. Tomorrow, the world. (Or possibly ice hockey)
5-Word 365 #238 – Ping Pong
We’ve got a brand new documentary for you today. Producer Anson Hartford and two of the film’s stars are currently on a limited-screening tour of the UK, but if you can’t make it to one of those events the movie is also available on VOD. You can check the screening calendar or download the full movie at their website.
5-Word 365 #224 – Murderball
In case you hadn’t noticed, the Olympics are on. At least they are while I’m writing this. I understand they’ll be over in a couple of days. Anyway, between my day job, getting to my day job, and doing these columns every day I have managed to watch a grand total of jack shit from London. To make up for that, I figured I’d go for an appropriately topical documentary this week.
5-Word At EIFF 2012 – Leave It On The Track
I was out and about doing a few interviews today at the festival, so I only got the chance to watch one film. Don’t worry though; I chose wisely. In case it isn’t already obvious by now, I’m putting my usual theme weekends on hold for a couple of weeks, as my schedule is pretty much dependent on the vagaries of the festival organisers. Or in shorter words: no kids film today. Sorry.
5-Word 365 #166 – Moneyball
I still have the flu. This means that I find myself sleeping a lot during the day, and when I’m not sleeping I’m often camped out in the bathroom. This also means that I don’t really have the opportunity to go hunting for films to watch in the depths of the Netflix and Lovefilm libraries, so I just stick to what might already be in the house. Here’s what I found in the pile next to the television. If it’s in your pile, you should watch it too. It really is quite good.
5-Word 365 #128 – The Winning Season
Have you heard of The Dice Man? It’s a novel from 1971 written by Luke Rhinehart, about a man named Luke Rhinehart who started living his life by the roll of a die. I read that book when I was at University and it kind of stuck with me (I also read Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, but I was smoking a lot of weed that month). It always seemed like such an interesting and care-free, not to mention dangerous, way to live; that transference of all responsibility for your own actions onto a little cube of plastic. What doors would that open up in your psyche, I wondered. What would you find out about yourself, and your limits? Unfortunately I don’t have any dice in the house so I used a bouncy rubber ball to choose today’s film. My psyche remains unaffected. Read More
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