TIFF Journal: Screwball
Director Billy Corben’s 2006 film Cocaine Cowboys was one of the rarest of cinematic beasts: a hit documentary. That doesn’t happen often, but docs are also rarely as rowdy, insane, and relentlessly entertaining as tha...
Tag Archives: Sports
Weekend Roundtable: Favorite Football Movies
If I’m not mistaken, a sporting event of some significance will happen this weekend. I believe it involves football – the American kind, not that soccer crap. As a tie-in, let’s look at some of our favorite movies eith...
Weekend Roundtable: Favorite Baseball Movies
The Cubs won the World Series this week. Did that really happen? It seems impossible. Movies in the ’80s used to joke about this day, and now it’s actually here. As America comes down from that giddy high, let’s ...
Weekend Roundtable: New Olympic Sports
Before each Olympic Games, the International Olympic Committee meets to decide which sports will (or will not) be included in the upcoming program. New events for the Rio de Janeiro 2016 Games, for example, include golf and rugby....
Poll: What Summer 2016 Olympic Sports Are You Watching?
The TV broadcast schedule this week has been dominated by coverage of the Olympics, Olympics and more Olympics. And yet, all anyone seems to care about is what a disaster Rio de Janeiro was for a choice of venue this year, what wi...
‘Concussion’ Review: Cornball Crap
This year has been surprisingly and pleasingly light on star-driven, painfully earnest Oscar bait, but along comes ‘Concussion’ to make up for lost time. The film’s title is wholly appropriate to how viewers will...
‘Red Army’ Review: A Hock-Doc Masterpiece
In theory, a documentary about the legendary Iron Curtain Soviet hockey team should be about as niche as a movie can get. It should appeal exclusively to sports aficionados and air only on ESPN in the middle of the night where not...
Poll: Will You Watch the 2015 Super Bowl?
For as much as we may seem preoccupied with nerdy stuff like superhero movies, TV shows about zombies, or videogames around here, for many viewers the main purpose of owning a big-screen HDTV is to watch sports. And for most Ameri...
Mid-Week Poll: Will You Watch the Winter Olympics?
The television event of the season starts this Friday when NBC will air the opening ceremonies for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. Are you an Olympics fanatic? Which events will you watch?
Netflix Alert: ESPN’s ’30 for 30′
I have no idea how many sports fans or even documentary fans we have here at The Bonus View. If you’re out there, you should know that Netflix is currently streaming all of ESPN’s award-winning ’30 for 30′ ...
Mid-Week Poll: Are You Watching the Summer Olympics?
For a blog that allegedly covers broadcast HDTV in the list of major topics, you may have found it strange that we haven’t said a word about perhaps the most significant TV event of the summer – the Olympics. Or maybe you ha...
Weekend Roundtable: Favorite Sports Movies
With Luke still raving about ‘Moneyball‘ in theaters, now seems like a good time to discuss our favorite sports movies for this week’s Roundtable topic. Play ball!