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Cinephile with Adnan Virk

The Way Back, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Best Inspirational Sports Movies

Cinephile with Adnan Virk

Adnan Virk, Le Batard & Friends

Tv & Film, Film Reviews, Film Interviews

4.92K Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2020

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Adnan reviews Ben Affleck's new film, "The Way Back" and the Céline Sciamma's "Portrait of a Lady on Fire." He also reviews the 2002 Ray Liotta film "Narc." In honor of "The Way Back," the guys pick the greatest Inspirational Sports movies ever made and re-pick the 2013 Oscars in this week's Total Recall! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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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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