Month: September 2011

Bennett Miller’s Moneyball (Sony, 9.23) is my idea of a triumph. A triumph of surprise and deception, I should add. It’s an emotionally low-key, thinking man’s Field of Dreams — a smart, true-to-life, business-of-baseball movie with a touch of the [Continue..]

As is the case with most memorable sports films, Bennett Miller’s “Moneyball” engages, amuses and educates us with moments that happen off the field of play, rather than with what happens on it. It’s a baseball movie that’s far more [Continue..]

When Brad Pitt optioned ‘Moneyball,’ the book’s author, Michael Lewis, famously told him, “I don’t know how you’re going to make it into a movie, but feel free to give it a try.” It was a fair point. The book, [Continue..]

Best Actor this year feels to be more of the hopeful variety, less dark, more optimistic and heroic. This is certainly true of the category’s frontrunner of the moment, George Clooney, who takes things to a different level with his [Continue..]

Ever wanted to ask Brad Pitt and Jonah Hill a question? Well, here’s your chance. On September 13, Moviefone is hosting an Unscripted session for the upcoming ‘Moneyball,’ in which Pitt stars as Oakland A’s manager Billy Beane. Pitt, along [Continue..]