Sentences with phrase «film about hockey»
It would be a very weird way to play to a crowd, but speaking with ESPN's Bill Simmons on Simmons» podcast [via ThePlaylist], Jason Reitman said that his future projects include a film about football and another film about hockey.
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The upcoming «Friday the 13th» game isn't about an unlucky Friday as much as it is about surviving an encounter with Jason Vorhees, the infamous hockey mask - wearing serial murderer from the film series of the same name.
A very simple, and yet beautiful film, about the life of Doug Glatt (William Scott), a bouncer turned hockey enforcer.
So in Québec you have comic films like La Florida [George Mihalka, 1993] or Les Boys [Louis Saïa, 1997], a film about an amateur hockey team.
«Life Itself,» Steve James's film about the life and work of iconic film critic Roger Ebert, joins «Finding Vivian Maier,» co-director Charlie Siskel (nephew of Gene Siskel, Ebert's co-host on «Siskel & Ebert») and executive producer Jeff Garlin's portrait of the Windy City nanny who was secretly a genius photographer, and «Red Army,» Gabe Polsky's exploration of the hockey team's rise and fall and how it mirrored that of the Soviet Union, as three of the top contenders eligible for the Best Documentary Oscar shortlist.
By its very nature — it's a Part 2, after all — Goon: Last of the Enforcers may lack some of the invigorating freshness of the first film, but it was clearly made by people who care about Doug Glatt and his weird gang of friends, who don't mind getting super dirty for a good laugh, and who clearly have a serious obsession with the sport of hockey.
Goon (2011): Rude, crude, bawdy and flat - out fun, this Canadian film about minor league hockey surprises on every level, delivering a hilarious and fascinating underdog tale.
And though the spectre of the recent suicides of real - life hockey enforcers Wade Belak, Rick Rypien, and Derek Boogaard (and a remarkable, honourable NEW YORK TIMES article by John Branch about the culture of enforcers in hockey) hangs over Goon like a cloud of disquiet, the film itself is less a celebration of Doug's actions than one of finding a niche in a life and living the hell out of it.