Dreaming of a Life Less Ordinary

42 Written by:     Brian Helgeland Directed by:   Brian Helgeland Starring:    Chadwick Boseman, Harrison Ford, and Nicole Beharie   To me there is nothing more American than baseball.   It has been around since the late 1800’s.   America grew up at the same time America did.   Baseball was there for the Civil War, the first World War, the second World War, Vietnam, and still going through the war on terror.   As the country has fought through so has baseball.   It has always been here being the steady stable hand the guided us through our maturing as a nation.     When the freight train that is the movie binge I have been on since the start of the Covid Pandemic headed into the 4 th of July weekend it just made sense that a baseball movie was included on the Watch List.   I feel like I have seen most of the classic baseball movies: Sandlot, The Natural, Major League, Field of Dreams, Bull Durham, For the Love of the Game, Rookie of the Year, and Little Big League to jus

This is the Weekend in Home Viewing for the 3-day weekend starting on Thursday July 2 and ending on July 5 th .    July 4 th holiday is always a special time when it comes to viewing movies for me.   For as far back as I can remember my 4 th of July’s have been spent catching up on old movies, or just watching some of the classics ones I love.   It was on July 4 th that I first watched Almost Famous.   Another 4 th of July I watched Red Cliff.   I think of July 4 th and New Year’s Eve as big drinking Holiday where there are a lot of people out on the roads that should not be, so I am perfectly fine staying home with some good movies.   Over the last four or five years I had gotten into the habit of spending the Holiday watching the original three American Pie movies.   We can debate on if these should be classified as good movies or not.   However, I find them hilarious and they remind me of simpler times.   The old jokes still get laughs out of me on each annual viewing, howe