 | | 1. Waterboy | | | Starring: Adam Sandler Director: Frank Coraci | | Format: DVD Release Date: 6/7/2005 | User Rating: 4.7 |  | The Waterboy - DVD Review By: Bill Gibron - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 7/24/2009 7:48 PM | |
With stand-up turned movie star Adam Sandler, there's no middle ground. You either love his ludicrous frat boy antics, or bristle at his continued comic juvenilia. He's either a god, or a clod, depending on your own particular sense of humor. So it's no surprise that his films have failed to earn an equally consistent level of acceptance. For every Happy Gilmore or Billy Madison, there's a Little Nicky or I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry. About the closest he's ever come to creating something that everyone can agree on is 1998's The Waterboy. By melding his crazed character development with the standard sports film formula, Sandler found a way to make most of the mainstream happy. read the full review | |
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 | | 2. We Are Marshall (HD) | | | Starring: Matthew McConaughey Director: Joseph McGinty | | Format: High Definition DVD Release Date: 9/18/2007 | | We Are Marshall - DVD Review By: J.D. McNamara - Cinema Blend DVD Reviews Published on: 9/24/2007 10:25 PM | | With its footballs slicing through the night air while players with outstretched arms leap in slo-mo anticipation, We Are Marshall's biggest fault is that it brings nothing new to the sports genre. Instead it has the speeches, the team infighting and subsequent re-bonding, the proverbial familial support for the bewildered coaches and of course, the inevitable dependence on the final lob to the end zone for its climactic finale. How many times do we need to see it before it becomes annoying' read the full review | |
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 | | 6. Leatherheads (Widescreen) | | | Starring: Renée Zellweger John Krasinski Director: George Clooney | | Format: DVD Release Date: 5/12/2009 | | Video Reviews Available: 1 | | Leatherheads - DVD Review By: Sean O'Connell - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 9/12/2008 3:28 PM | |
With his nonchalant sophistication and relaxed charm, George Clooney often gets compared to the icons of Hollywood's Golden Age, from Cary Grant to Clark Gable. But as Leatherheads demonstrates, the leading man really wants to be the next George Cukor. A football comedy disguised as a love-triangle-laugher, Leatherheads is a snappy throwback fueled by the filmmaker's affection for a bygone era. Clooney's third directorial effort is his lightest film so far, which only means he isn't flogging the fear-mongering tactics of Sen. Joseph McCarthy (Good Night and Good Luck) or dissecting the deranged brain of a game show host who believes he's a CIA operative (Confessions of a Dangerous Mind). read the full review | |
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 | | 23. Friday Night Lights (Widescreen) | | | Starring: Billy Bob Thornton Tim McGraw Director: Peter Berg | | Format: DVD Release Date: 5/22/2007 | User Rating: 5 | | Friday Night Lights - DVD Review By: David Levine - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 12/26/2008 7:43 PM | |
When the lights come on at the 20,000-seat Ratliff Stadium, the city of Odessa, Texas shuts down. Streets are deserted and stores close early so that everyone can crowd onto the sparse campus of Permian High School to cheer on their Panthers. In this small, barren town, Friday night football is bigger than life. Based on journalist H.G. Bissinger’s best selling book, Friday Night Lights examines the craze surrounding the team’s bumpy road to the 1988 state championship. For these players, excelling at football is the only ticket out of their dilapidated desert town. All of Odessa’s residents are motivated to do their part to help get them out. read the full review | |
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 | | 25. Gridiron Gang (Fullscreen) | | | Starring: Jade Yorker Director: Phil Joanou | | Format: DVD Release Date: 9/23/2008 | | Gridiron Gang - DVD By: Edward Perkis - Cinema Blend DVD Reviews Published on: 1/22/2007 10:47 PM | | Gridiron Gang is the story of a drunken pool cleaner who takes a ragged team of misfits and turns them into near-champion ballplayers with the help of a girl pitcher and a.......Wait, that's not right. It's actually the story of a former pro-football player thrown into prison leading a ragged team of misfit prisoners against the guards.......Dang, that's not right either. read the full review | |
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 | | 26. Fired Up (Rated) new! | | | Starring: Nicholas D'Agosto Eric Christian Olsen Director: Will Gluck | | Format: DVD Release Date: 10/27/2009 | | Video Reviews Available: 1 | | Fired Up! - DVD Review By: Blake French - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 5/29/2009 2:39 PM | |
From the advertisements, Fired Up! looks like the movie that finally indulges in what every young man fantasizes about: Crashing cheerleading camp to get laid. On the poster, the tagline reads: "Two guys. 300 girls. You do the math." With those numbers, lots of guys would look past those annoying cheers and be the first in line at the movie theater with their dates. Unfortunately, Fired Up! isn't the movie it says it is. It's rated PG-13, and beyond a few shots of young ladies in cheer outfits, there's nothing remotely objectionable here. That would be fine if it were a family film. But it's being marketed as a sexy teen comedy. read the full review | |
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