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Curl Power: These Young Athletes Have the Stones

Curl Power: These Young Athletes Have the Stones

By Chris Knight

ReviewJim SlotekJanuary 22, 2025Curl Power, TIFF 24, Josephine Anderson, Brooklyn Aleksic, Hannah Smeed, Savannah Miley, Amy Wheatcroft, Ashley Dezura, Sports films, coming of age, Teenagers, Women in film, CanadianComment

Challengers: All’s Fair In 15-Love and War

Challengers: All’s Fair In 15-Love and War

By Chris Knight

ReviewJim SlotekApril 26, 2024Challengers, Drama, Sports films, Luca Guadagnino, Zendaya, Mike Faist, Josh O’Connor, Tennis, Movies about tennisComment

Maiden: Thrilling Doc on All-Female Yachting Feat an Eerie Look Back at Sexism Run Amok

By Jim Slotek

ReviewJuly 10, 2019documentaries, Alex Holmes, Tracy Edwards, Sports films, TIFF 2018, King Hussein of Jordan, Sports documentaries, Sailing, YachtingComment

What Men Want: Gender-Bending Reboot a Garish Gumbo of Clichés

By Kim Hughes

ReviewFebruary 7, 2019Taraji P. Henson, Tracy Morgan, rom-com, Reboot, Sports films, Erykah Badu, SNL, Pete Davidson Comment

Borg vs McEnroe: This just in, Borg secretly had a temper and McEnroe was a jerk

By Jim Slotek

ReviewJim SlotekApril 10, 2018Sports films, Swedish films, Bjorn Borg, John McEnroe, Shia LaBeouf, Tennis movies, Wimbledon