Challengers

Challengers

Three tennis aces have a love triangle relationship over a multi-year period in Challengers. Art Donaldson (Mike Faist) is a past his prime Tennis superstar preparing for the 2019 US Open while recovering from an injury. Art’s wife and coach, retired tennis ace Tashi Duncan (Zendaya), enters him as a wild card into a Challenger…

Hello Destroyer

Hello Destroyer

A young hockey player’s life is left in limbo following a suspension for violence in Hello Destroyer. Tyson Burr (Jared Abrahamson) is a rookie enforcer for the Prince George Warriors minor league hockey team. Spurred on by a heated locker room pep talk by Coach Dale Milbury (Kurt Max Runte), Tyson ends up inadvertently injuring a player on…

Goon

Goon

In its most simple description, Goon is hockey film for people who don’t really like hockey films.  It could also be described as a film for people who prefer the violent nature of hockey, as opposed to the sport itself. The film stars Seann William Scott as a completely dumb, yet kindhearted, brute of a guy…

Run Fatboy Run

Run Fatboy Run

Simon Pegg has really started to make a name for himself, since the release of Shaun of the Dead back in 2004. This film is his first staring role without his usual collaborators, writer/director, Edgar Wright and, co-star, Nick Frost. For the first 20 minutes or so, I was not sure if this David Schwimmer-directed…