The Way Back, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Best Inspirational Sports Movies
Cinephile with Adnan Virk
Adnan Virk, Le Batard & Friends
4.9 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 18 March 2020
⏱️ 48 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Despite those momentum stalling in unnecessary detours, the irresistibly cheerworthy basketball |
| 0:28.2 | sequence is an afflex resident and authentic performance are more than enough to carry the day. |
| 0:33.6 | That's Richard Roper, the Chicago Sun Times review and one of two movies that I'll be reviewing this week. |
| 0:37.6 | That's called The Way Back from Ben Affleck. What a week it has been. |
| 0:41.9 | Hope everybody out there is safe and sound right now. Quarantine is best as possible. |
| 0:46.2 | It's just incredible to think how the world has changed literally since the last time we did this |
| 0:50.6 | sit-off file. Last Wednesday, I got four kids, there's nothing on sports, but I'm going to bed early, |
| 0:55.5 | right? It's been a long day. I was probably in bed like a, you know, like my dad is 74 year old, |
| 1:00.0 | then bed at like 9, 9, 30. And my wife wakes me up and tells me Tom Hanks is coronavirus, |
| 1:05.5 | and the NBA just canceled the season. I already knew it was a major deal, like the first big shock, |
| 1:10.4 | was when I saw NCAA was going to hold the games, but with no fans. And then also, |
| 1:14.5 | you get that news, you go, oh my god, the world is never going to be the same. I did radio for |
| 1:18.0 | series the next day. This was last Thursday and as we're doing the show, this is being canceled, |
| 1:22.0 | this is being canceled, NHL suspended, okay? MLB's being pushed back, et cetera. And now, of course, |
| 1:27.2 | in our world here on CineFile entertainment, I quickly said to myself, well, I got to get out |
| 1:31.9 | movies because a movie that is definitely going to be shut down. This is only inevitable at this |
| 1:35.7 | point for anybody who thought this wasn't a big deal. It's a huge deal. It's going to continue to be |
| 1:39.0 | a big deal and it's going to get worse before I get to bed. So Thursday night, I raced out to go |
| 1:44.4 | see the way back because I said, all right, one last movie review hot off the press, so to speak |
| 1:49.2 | here for CineFile because after this, it's going to be a lot of, I mean, listen, next week we can do |
| 1:53.5 | better call Saul. It'll be five episodes in to this fifth season. And then I think I'll just be |
| 1:58.0 | revisiting a lot of old movie that do have some screeners that I never got around to from 2019, |
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