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Last Chance U Recap: The Backlash

July 19 2019, by Daniel Hart

This recap of Last Chance U Season 4, Episode 7, “Famous Forever” contains significant spoilers. You can read our recap of the previous episode by...

Last Chance U Recap: An Explosion of Talent

July 19 2019, by Daniel Hart

This recap of Last Chance U Season 4, Episode 1, “Dream U” contains significant spoilers. You can read our review of season 4 by clicking...

Last Chance U Recap: Another “Mistake” By Bobby Bruce

July 19 2019, by Daniel Hart

This recap of Last Chance U Season 4, Episode 2, “The Eye in the Skye” contains significant spoilers. You can read the recap of the...

Last Chance U Recap: Falling Apart

July 19 2019, by Daniel Hart

This recap of Last Chance U Season 4, Episode 5, “The Hangover” contains significant spoilers. You can read our recap of the previous episode by...

Last Chance U Recap: War

July 19 2019, by Daniel Hart

This recap of Last Chance U Season 4, Episode 4, “Garden City” contains significant spoilers. You can read our recap of the previous episode by...

Last Chance U Season 4 Review: INDY Part 2 Is A Disaster

July 18 2019, by Daniel Hart

What we witness in Netflix’s Last Chance U season 4 is what we usually see on TV but beneath the surface, where cameras are always in...

‘Breaking the Limits’ Film Review

March 31 2019, by Jonathon Wilson

There are a surprising number of ex-drug addicts who go on to take up endurance sports. When listening to their accounts you notice some common...

‘Bayonet’ Netflix Film Review

March 29 2019, by Jonathon Wilson

Bayonet follows the aftermath of Miguel “Bayonetta” Galindez’s (Luis Gerardo Méndez) professional boxing career; a career ended abruptly following an undisclosed in-ring incident. Miguel, or...

‘Antoine Griezmann: The Making of a Legend’ Netflix Review

March 21 2019, by Jonathon Wilson

The against-all-odds sporting documentary is nothing new, much less on streaming platforms, where we’ve had Manchester City: All or Nothing on Amazon Prime, and First Team: Juventus and Sunderland...

‘Cricket Fever: Mumbai Indians’ Review – Bringing A Keen Insight Into The IPL

March 1 2019, by Daniel Hart

Following a sports team’s season seems to be a trend in documentaries, but there’s no denying that they offer immediate value due to the intensity...

Losers Season 1 Review

March 1 2019, by Jonathon Wilson

Sport is defined by its successes. To win is to gain everything: fortune, adulation, immortality. To lose, well that does not bear thinking about. Fans...

High Flying Bird (2019) Review

February 8 2019, by Jonathon Wilson

Directed by Steven Soderbergh, we review the 2019 Netflix film High Flying Bird, which does not contain any major spoilers. Social media has given us...

‘Free Solo’ | Film Review

January 14 2019, by M.N. Miller

Very few films put you in the thick of it, so to speak, like the new documentary Free Solo from directors Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and...

‘Glass Jaw’ | Film Review

November 1 2018, by Jonathon Wilson

Glass Jaw is from director Jeff Celentano (Breaking Point), starring Lee Kholafai (You Have a Nice Flight), Korrina Rico (Horrible Bosses 2) and Brandon Sklenar...

Here’s everything that happened in Ballers Season 4

August 13 2018, by Jonathon Wilson

Before we dive into Season 4: when we last saw the boys, Spencer (Dwayne Johnson) and Joe (Rob Corddry) had turned down the offer to...

‘Zion’ | Netflix Short Film Review

August 10 2018, by Alix Turner

Zion is a short documentary film about one remarkable young man, and most especially his attitude about himself. By “short”, I mean it’s less than...

Going for Gold Review

July 15 2018, by Jonathon Wilson

As I write this, I’m sat beside a little shelf full of cheerleading trophies, including one that I used as an ashtray when I was...

The 4th Company Review – A Gritty Blend of Sports and Prison Drama

April 6 2018, by Jonathon Wilson

When a young offender, Zambrano (Adrian Ladron), arrives at the Santa Martha prison, he hopes to be able to play for their football team –...

Review | First Team: Juventus Part One (2018)

February 16 2018, by Jonathon Wilson

First Team: Juventus, the latest Netflix Original Docu-series, takes us on a behind the scenes look at one of Europe’s most famous, most loved and...

‘Battle of the Sexes’ Review – A Movie With A Really Engaging Character Study

November 27 2017, by Jonathon Wilson

I think that tennis hasn’t been particularly well served (pun very much intended) on the big screen. Recently, we’ve had Borg/McEnroe, but sadly that passed...