Bad News Bears

Critics had every reason to object when Billy Bob Thornton remade The Bad News Bears a few years back. After all, Walter Matthau had already defined the role of foul-mouthed Coach Buttermaker, a cranky alcoholic who oversees a team of misfit little leaguers, in the perfectly serviceable 1976 original. Now we get yet another variation on the formula, this time starring Sam Rockwell as the last man you'd want coaching a varsity girls basketball team, in The Winning Season. Strange that this second film from Grace Is Gone writer-director James C. Strouse could be so different from his debut (in which John Cusack played an emasculated widower who refuses to cope with the death of his wife in Iraq), and yet so similar to an entire subcategory of the underdog sports comedy. Some would argue that the girls basketball angle sets Th ...
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Critics had every reason to object when Billy Bob Thornton remade The Bad News Bears a few years back. After all, Walter Matthau had already defined the role of foul-mouthed Coach Buttermaker, a cranky alcoholic who oversees a team of misfit little leaguers, in the perfectly serviceable 1976 original. Now we get yet another variation on the formula, this time starring Sam Rockwell as the last man you'd want coaching a varsity girls basketball team, in The Winning Season. Strange that this second film from Grace Is Gone writer-director James C. Strouse could be so different from his debut (in which John Cusack played an emasculated widower who refuses to cope with the death of his wife in Iraq), and yet so similar to an entire subcategory of the underdog sports comedy. Some would argue that the girls basketball angle sets Th ...
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Last weekend at Wonder Con, Watchmen star Jackie Earle Haley (The Bad News Bears) was on-hand to discuss his recent turn as the masked "Rorschach". For horror fans, the more pressing questions involved the "rabid rumor" that Haley would be donning another brown hat to portray the 21st century vision of the iconic "Freddy Krueger".  IGN caught up with Haley and put him on the spot, capturing the video we're sharing with you below. Surprisingly, he states that he "can't deny" the rumors, but also confirms that he's "exhanged words with the guys" about slipping into the glove. Take a peek below and see what you make of Jackie's response.

Platinum Dunes' reboot of the Nightmare On Elm Street franchise is set to start rolling in and around Chicago, Illinois on April 27th. As we last told you here, music video director Samuel Bayer (Nirvana, Garbage, Smashing Pumpkins) is

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