Movie Reviews

Those of us who lived through 9/11, especially in New York, have our own memories of the day and is aftermath. For many like me, just being in Manhattan that morning, living through the uncertainty of how I’d get back home to New Jersey (via foot, ferry, train, and eventually ...

Like the curveball in baseball, forward pass in football and slap shot in hockey, it seems like the jump shot, as essential an element in basketball as the dribble, has always been a part of the game. But there was a time in each sport before those game-changers came into ...

This week’s celebration of Memorial Day and the impending 75th anniversary of D-Day next week is the perfect time for a look at one of the 20th century’s most elusive baseball figures and World War II heroes, Moe Berg. It was said of Berg that he “spoke a dozen languages ...

“It showed us that we could get along for a day.” – Robert “Rob Jay” Jeuitt, Jackson State Univ. grad, former player The story of Mississippi Veterans Memorial Stadium in Jackson is more than that of a field that hosted some of the best football teams and most memorable games ...

Batesville, Miss., population about 7,500 at the 2010 census, wouldn’t seem at first glance to be the ideal location for a national high school football power. But as the debut film in the “Between the Pines: Mississippi’s Greatest Sports Stories” series, “The University of South Panola (USP),” which debuted in ...

“What is a film about the fastball?” That’s the question that Jonathan Hock, director of the best sports documentaries you have seen or should see (The Lost Son of Havana, Off the Rez, “30 for 30” shorts “The Best there Never Was,” “Of Miracles and Men,” to name just four) ...

This will be worth locating Smithsonian Channel on your pay TV lineup, if somehow you haven’t already… “The Hammer of Hank Aaron” is the first in Smithsonian’s “Major League Legends” series, debuting this week. The documentary focuses on Aaron’s sometimes overlooked role in the early post-integration days of Major League ...