Challengers
A Luca Guadagnino drama about romantic relationships is always worthy of attention. This one is a love triangle between three young tennis talents that plays out over several years as…
The Swedish Torpedo
Coming on the heels of other, better films portraying stubborn women who caused headlines by swimming across great distances (Nyad, Young Woman and the Sea), this one creates a fictitious…
Young Woman and the Sea
A very slickly produced biopic about the first woman to swim across the English Channel, a feat accomplished in 1926 by Trudy Ederle, an American with German roots. She survived…
The Boys in the Boat
In 1936, a poor engineering student (Callum Turner) joins the rowing team at the University of Washington; coach Al Ulbrickson (Joel Edgerton) is aiming for the impossible, the Olympics in…
Bull Durham
Veteran catcher ”Crash” Davies (Kevin Costner) arrives in Durham, North Carolina to teach a pitcher (Tim Robbins), who’s young but very promising, how to play better. Before embarking on a…
Nyad
In 2013, long-distance swimmer Diana Nyad (Annette Bening) is in her sixties but determined to do what she couldn’t back in 1978: swim from Havana to Key West. In their…
The Love Bug
Down-on-his-luck race-car driver Jim Douglas (Dean Jones) gets a white Volkswagen Beetle on his hands that turns out to have a life of its own. One of the most successful…
Creed III
A now retired Adonis Creed (Michael B. Jordan) meets an old friend (Jonathan Majors) who’s out of prison and feels an obligation to help him, little realizing that he’s being…
Off Track
In a moment of weakness, eternal screw-up Lisa (Katia Winter) tells her daughter that she intends to compete in Vasaloppet, a 56-mile ski race; now she has to get in…
Free Solo: El Cap One Step at a Time
Alex Honnold. Photo: National Geographic In September 2019, the term ”free solo” was added to Merriam-Webster’s English dictionary. The reason was this film and its ability to take what used…