www.xsportfilms.com / From the acclaimed creators of the Chain Reaction series and SEVENVISION comes a progressive and soulful mountain bike adventure that shows the deeper you get involved with your passion, the smaller your world becomes…LATITUDES. Four time Emmy Award winning producer/director, Don Hampton and crew have been spanning the globe to capture every angle in pristine high definition
www.xsportfilms.com After a decade strong career at the top of the game, Ben Player took his first world title at the Banzai Pipeline in Hawaii 2005. however a post-victory jibe from rival Damian King, would sour players first world title. No event wins on the tour that year had given King a reason to dismiss the accomplishment as mere luck and sow doubt in Players own mind.
www.xsportfilms.com After a decade strong career at the top of the game, Ben Player took his first world title at the Banzai Pipeline in Hawaii 2005. however a post-victory jibe from rival Damian King, would sour players first world title. No event wins on the tour that year had given King a reason to dismiss the accomplishment as mere luck and sow doubt in Players own mind
Movie: For Love of the Game (1999)
“A baseball legend almost finished with his distinguished career at the age of forty has one last chance to prove who he is, what he is capable of, and win the heart of the woman he has loved for the past four years. Written by Erwin van Moll {max404@hotmail.com}”
Tagline: Billy Chapel must choose between the woman he loves and the game he lives for.
Trivia: The book next to Billy Chapel on the airplane after he finds Heather is “The Killer Angels”. This book was also written by Michael Shaara, who wrote “For Love of the Game”.
Goofs: Continuity: At the end of the third inning, the announcer says that Billy strikes out the side and now has five strikeouts. Billy strikes out the second batter and third batter in the first inning, and strikes out the first batter (fourth batter in the lineup) at the start of the second inning. During the eighth inning, it’s revealed that the sixth batter in the lineup struck out twice previously, which means he struck out back in the second inning. If Billy struck out the side in the third inning, he should have at least seven strikeouts by the end of the third inning, not five.
Movie: Field of Dreams (1989)
“Iowa farmer Ray Kinsella hears a voice in his corn field tell him, “If you build it, he will come.” He interprets this message as an instruction to build a baseball field on his farm, upon which appear the ghosts of Shoeless Joe Jackson and the other seven Chicago White Sox players banned from the game for throwing the 1919 World Series. When the voices continue, Ray seeks out a reclusive author to help him understand the meaning of the messages and the purpose for his field. Written by Scott Renshaw {as.idc@forsythe.stanford.edu}”
Tagline: All his life, Ray Kinsella was searching for his dreams. Then one day, his dreams came looking for him.
Trivia: The shot of the line-drive knocking over the bag of baseballs next to Kevin Costner was sheer luck off the bat of Ray Liotta.
Goofs: Factual errors: “Shoeless” Joe Jackson actually batted left-handed and threw right-handed.
Movie: Friday Night Lights (2004)
“Odessa, Texas, is a small, town in Texas. Racially divided and economically dying, there is one night that gives the town something to live for: Friday Night. The Permian Panthers have a big winning tradition in Texas high school football, led by QB Mike Winchell and superstar tailback Boobie Miles, but all is not well, as Boobie suffers a career-ending injury in the first game of the season. Hope is lost among citizens in Odessa, and for the team, but Coach Gary Gaines, who believes that “Perfection is being able to look your friends in the eye and know you did everything you could not to let them down”, is somehow able to help the team rise up from the ashes and make a huge season comeback. Now on their way to state, the Panthers must go out and be perfect, because they may never matter this much for the rest of their lives. Written by Zac Abrams”
Tagline: Hope comes alive
Trivia: Texan experimental post-rock band Explosions in the Sky scored the movie. The producer used small pieces of older songs by Explosions in the Sky as placeholders, but eventually grew so fond of the pieces that he licensed them along with the original score produced by the band.
Goofs: Anachronisms: The Cooper cheerleaders are wearing fly away skirts, a design that did not come about until the early 1990s.
Movie: Match Point (2005)
“Chris, a recently retired tennis player, requests work like instructor in a London select club, there he knows and friendship begins with Tom Hewett who is member of an English wealthy family, Chris is a youth with luck, Chloe sister of Tom falls in love with Chris who takes advantage of this. On the other hand, Nola, an American sensual actress of little mount, girlfriend of Tom, knows Chris in a family party and the Irishman immediately is attracted by the beauty of the actress. Different to Nola’s fate, Chris is well accepted in the Hewett’s family and has the fortune of sympathizing with Mr. Alec Hewett who uses their influence to place young Chris in an executive position. Chris marries this way Chloe, Tom breaks up suddenly with Nola and he marries a youth of his class. Then Chris looks for Nola laboriously, and he revives the passion that feels for the American, this way Chris is amid an enormous pressure, coming from the work, of his relationship with Nola and of his wife’s necessity of having a son. Finally, Nola leaves pregnant and she begins to press Chris so that he abandones Chloe, the retired tennis player has to make a difficult decision that will take him to extreme situations and a fatal destination for the young actress. Again the random, the good luck, allows Chris to stay free of this difficult situation, again the ball hits in the net and it falls in the rival’s land. (Chris, un recien retirado jugador de tenis, solicita trabajo como instructor en un selecto club londinense, ah
Movie: Green Street Hooligans 2 (2009)
“Following the deadly climax of “Green Street Hooligans,” several members of the West Ham firm and numerous members of Millwall end up in jail. The GSE quickly discover the brutality of life on the inside, as they are constant targets of the superior numbers and better-financed Millwall crew. Written by Anonymous”
Tagline: Fight for respect.
Movie: Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (2004)
“White Goodman is the owner and founder of Globo Gym, and would love nothing more than owning Average Joe’s Gymnasium. Peter LaFleur doesn’t want to lose his gym to Goodman, but can’t find a way to get $50,000 in time. Peter and his gang of gym buddies think of ways to raise money, finally settling on winning a dodgeball tournament. White Goodman retaliates by creating his own dodgeball team to finish off Peter. Peter’s team doesn’t do too well, until legendary ADAA champ Patches O’Houlihan turns up ready to train them. Written by FilmFanUK”
Tagline: Grab Life by the Balls (Australia & Europe)
Trivia: Many studios including Dreamworks and MGM passed on this film. Fox finally agreed when Ben Stiller reduced his salary to well under $1 million. As of March 2005, the film has grossed over $124 million when it only cost $23 millions to make.
Goofs: Continuity: In the dodge ball training video, when Young Patches O’Houlihan is first introduced, he’s holding a cigarette in his left hand, in subsequent shots the cigarette disappears.
Movie: Point Break (1991)
“In the coastal town of Los Angeles, a gang of bank robbers call themselves the ex-presidents. commit their crimes while wearing masks of ex-presidents Reagan, Carter, Nixon and Johnson. The F.B.I. believes that the members of the gang could be surfers and send young agent Johnny Utah undercover at the beach to mix with the surfers and gather information. Utah meets surfer Bodhi and gets drawn into the lifestyle of his new friend. Written by Sami Al-Taher {staher2000@yahoo.com}”
Tagline: 100% Pure Adrenaline.
Trivia: When Bodhi (Patrick Swayze) is introduced to Johnny Utah (Keanu Reeves) on the beach, he remarks that Utah’s surfboard reminds him of a ‘57 Chevy he used to have. Swayze previously drove a ‘57 Chevy in Dirty Dancing (1987).
Goofs: Factual errors: Utah is seen crossing a railway line at Torquay Bells Beach. No railway has ever been built to Torquay or Bells Beach.
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