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Sports Movies for People Who Aren't Into Sports
"Yeah, I never really got into sports. I don't do sports and I'm not at all interested in watching them. And yet...I enjoyed these movies."
Downhill Racer
DVD - 2009
"Incredible handheld photography and sound work create many exciting skiing sequences. Combine these with an elliptical character study of a competitive racer, played by Robert Redford, and in you end up with a genuinely existential sports movie."
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A superb collection of science fiction and fantasy stories, The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories and Other Stories is a book that transcends all genre definitions. The stories within are mined with depth charges, explosions of meaning and...
North Dallas Forty
DVD - 2000
"This 1970's football film was marketed as a raunchy comedy and for the most part it is, but it's portrayal of the hyper-masculine culture of football and the way the business of football chews up and spits out the bodies of the men who play feels ..."
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"This collection of (mostly) science fiction stories dates all the way back to the 1970s, but it still seems as fresh as ever. Maybe that's because Gene Wolfe was less interested in speculating about technology and more interested in using technolo..."
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