Fever Pitch

2005

★★ 9

This movie is significantly better if Jimmy Fallon is replaced with literally anyone else.

Rookie of the Year

1993

★★ 7

I love the strange amount of match cuts and how they use creaky sound effects every time he winds up a throw, you just know whoever wrote this script was high as a kite.

Angels in the Outfield

1994

★★★½ 9

I thought when revisiting this, it was going to be preachy Christian propaganda that I never noticed because I was a child, but it’s surprisingly…not? (Not completely)

It’s become a running joke to say “they don’t make them like they used to” when watching anything pre-2000s, but I find it especially true for something like Angels in the Outfield. A children’s movie that is not only explicitly about faith, but also about the broken foster care system, absent parents, and…