Champions of Cinema

By Joe Walker and James Marshall

Are these the best sports movies ever made? Or just another glass jawed journeyman looking for a payday? Joe Walker and James Marshall are a coach and athlete duo who both studied and competed at L

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The podcast currently has 31 episodes available.

Champions of Cinema episodes:

October 15, 2024 Field Of Dreams (1989)
Its Season 2 Baby!! and James and Joe are back, a new spooky episode with sports ghosts and James Earl Jones! What else can we say about this wonderful pitch of night terrors....well that its 1989s Field of Dreams!!
This might be the first episode which has really set the guys at odds, because whilst there wasn't much blood or sweat that went into this episode there was definitely tears.... Join us in season 2 and searching for the Champions of Cinema!
The Hosts
Joe Walker is a Sports Coach and graduate of Loughborough University, with 16 years coaching experience and a degree in Sports Coaching. His first passion has always been movies and the stories that they tell.
James Marshall is a 2x National Championship winning athlete and graduate of Loughborough University. He has a background in a variety of sports including American Football, Athletics and Swimming. He grew up with aspirations to pursue a life in Drama and Acting.
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Instagram - @championsofcinema
Tiktok - @champions.of.cine
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45min
October 08, 2024 Jerry Maguire (1996)
Its the final episode of season 1 and the end of our Tom Cruise series! James has been eagerly waiting for this one and boy oh boy does it disappoint him. When is a sports rom-com not good? Well when its more rom-com than necessary and its so 90s that its painful.
But how do you make a podcast about a movie that really isn't very good? You laugh at it and provide a stellar sequel pitch to boot! Joe and James take some shots at what might be the worst sports movie Tom Cruise has starred in so far!
The Hosts
Joe Walker is a Sports Coach and graduate of Loughborough University, with 16 years coaching experience and a degree in Sports Coaching. His first passion has always been movies and the stories that they tell.
James Marshall is a 2x National Championship winning athlete and graduate of Loughborough University. He has a background in a variety of sports including American Football, Athletics and Swimming. He grew up with aspirations to pursue a life in Drama and Acting.
Contact Info
Instagram - @championsofcinema
Tiktok - @champions.of.cine
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1h 4min
October 01, 2024 Days of Thunder (1990)
Have you ever felt the deep desire to see 40 men in cars just turn left for 3 Hours? Or maybe watch a man explain complex aerodynamic tactics in sports by using two packs of beverage sweetener? Well look no further than this weeks movie....Days of Thunder. Tom Cruise stars as Cole Trickle a young, impetuous and talented racing driver keen to try his hand at NASCAR a sport where the advertising is as important as the racing but less important than the crashing.
Whilst James wants to review Cars (2006) more than anything at this point, Joe carefully coaxes him towards some movie nostalgia and the third movie in our Tom Cruise Tetralogy. But with Optimus Prime and Lightning McQueen trying to throw a spanner in the works. Will we be able to cross the finish line with one of the finest racing movies ever? Listen to find out.
The Hosts
Joe Walker is a Sports Coach and graduate of Loughborough University, with 16 years coaching experience and a degree in Sports Coaching. His first passion has always been movies and the stories that they tell.
James Marshall is a 2x National Championship winning athlete and graduate of Loughborough University. He has a background in a variety of sports including American Football, Athletics and Swimming. He grew up with aspirations to pursue a life in Drama and Acting.
Contact Info
Email - [email protected]
Instagram - @championsofcinema
Tiktok - @champions.of.cine
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1h 4min
September 24, 2024 The Color of Money (1986)
How do you keep warm and entertained in the winters in the Midwest, well usually either in a Bowling Alley, Bar or a Pool Hall. Fast Eddie Felson (Paul Newman) takes Vincent Lauria (Tom Cruise) under his wing and schools him in the art of hustling in this Martin Scorsese directed movie.
How can we keep this up? Movie after movie of epic proportion, 80's nostalgia and James realising that he need to keep watching everything Joe recommends because its just making Transformers seem a bit meh in comparison. The Tom Cruise Series continues....and what a beauty this one is!
The Hosts
Joe Walker is a Sports Coach and graduate of Loughborough University, with 16 years coaching experience and a degree in Sports Coaching. His first passion has always been movies and the stories that they tell.
James Marshall is a 2x National Championship winning athlete and graduate of Loughborough University. He has a background in a variety of sports including American Football, Athletics and Swimming. He grew up with aspirations to pursue a life in Drama and Acting.
Contact Info
Instagram - @championsofcinema
Tiktok - @champions.of.cine
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57min
September 17, 2024 All the Right Moves (1983)
1983 and a cold, bleak and struggling town of Ampipe plays home to Stefan Djordjevic (Tom Cruise) he has a plan to get a football scholarship and get out of town before he is swallowed up by a life in the steel mills. But can he make all the right moves in his quest for freedom, or will he fall foul of coaches, criminals and teenage pregnancy?
At Champions of Cinema we love nothing less than a movie about Football, but with our first foray into High School, is Joe too old to remember being a teenager and is James far and away from a steelworkers son? Join us as we start a new series of Tom Cruise movies!
The Hosts
Joe Walker is a Sports Coach and graduate of Loughborough University, with 16 years coaching experience and a degree in Sports Coaching. His first passion has always been movies and the stories that they tell.
James Marshall is a National Championship winning athlete and graduate of Loughborough University. He has a background in a variety of sports including American Football, Athletics and Swimming. He grew up with aspirations to pursue a life in Drama and Acting.
Contact Info
Instagram - @championsofcinema
Tiktok - @champions.of.cine
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1h 15min
September 10, 2024 Moneyball (2011)
Billy Beane and the Oakland Athletics are one of the cheapest teams in Baseball, with a cut price roster of misfit and broken players can they do the impossible and compete with the big boys of Baseball?
Stepping onto the mound for the first time with a Baseball movie, Joe and James flirt with pivoting the podcast into Mathematics rather than Movies, with discussions about how Billionaires save money in their sport teams and whether economics really is the future of sports.
The Hosts
Joe Walker is a Sports Coach and graduate of Loughborough University, with 16 years coaching experience and a degree in Sports Coaching. His first passion has always been movies and the stories that they tell.
James Marshall is a National Championship winning athlete and graduate of Loughborough University. He has a background in a variety of sports including American Football, Athletics and Swimming. He grew up with aspirations to pursue a life in Drama and Acting.
Contact Info
Instagram - @championsofcinema
Tiktok - @champions.of.cine
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53min
September 03, 2024 Bleed for this (2016)
Vinny Pazienza was a 5 time world champion boxer, but can he be a Champion of Cinema? Sure an athlete can come back in a game or a season to overcome their challenges and opponents, but Bleed for this sees Vinny having to overcome a broken neck just to make it back into the ring.
With James angering the gods of martial arts this episode, it nearly never made it to your ears, but after some quick editing work and a whole lot of heart and hustle, the boys rally in the 2nd half of the fight to bring you their newest episode.
The Hosts
Joe Walker is a Sports Coach and graduate of Loughborough University, with 16 years coaching experience and a degree in Sports Coaching. His first passion has always been movies and the stories that they tell.
James Marshall is a National Championship winning athlete and graduate of Loughborough University. He has a background in a variety of sports including American Football, Athletics and Swimming. He grew up with aspirations to pursue a life in Drama and Acting.
Contact Info
Instagram - @championsofcinema
Tiktok - @champions.of.cine
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1h 17min
August 27, 2024 Chariots of Fire (1981)
Chariots of Fire won Best Picture at the Oscars in 1982, but is it a Champion of Cinema? Olympics movie at its finest the story follows the live of two young sprinters Harold Abrahams a Jewish Cambridge student with a competitive streak and speed to boot, and Eric Liddell a Christian Scot who runs both in celebration of and with the challenges his faith provides.
In their first foray into Athletics, Oscar Winners and The Olympics, Joe and James find the funny, the touching and the inaccuracies of Chariots of Fire with the usual passion and depth that they are becoming accustomed to, but can they avoid the Nazis even in the 1920's?
The Hosts
Joe Walker is a Sports Coach and graduate of Loughborough University, with 16 years coaching experience and a degree in Sports Coaching. His first passion has always been movies and the stories that they tell.
James Marshall is a National Championship winning athlete and graduate of Loughborough University. He has a background in a variety of sports including American Football, Athletics and Swimming. He grew up with aspirations to pursue a life in Drama and Acting.
Contact Info
Instagram - @championsofcinema
Tiktok - @champions.of.cine
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1h 9min
August 20, 2024 The Program (1993)
The Program is a 1993 sports movie following the fictional Eastern State University and its players as they compete against powerhouse college football programs the likes of Mississippi State, Iowa and Michigan. The story follows Coach Sam Winters (James Caan) a man in the hot-seat as Head Coach for ESU managing relationships with Quarterback Joe Kane (Craig Sheffer), Linebacker Alvin Mack (Duane Davis) and rookie sensation Darnell Jefferson (Omar Epps) as they try to make it to a major Bowl Game.
On familiar ground with American Football Joe and James discuss the closeness of this movie to that of Any Given Sunday (2000), how accurate the lives of early 90s football player have been depicted and the heady mix of fame, steroids, beer and women on student athletes trying to make a way in the world of college football. Starting Defense! Place at the Table!!
The Hosts
Joe Walker is a Sports Coach and graduate of Loughborough University, with 16 years coaching experience and a degree in Sports Coaching. His first passion has always been movies and the stories that they tell.
James Marshall is a National Championship winning athlete and graduate of Loughborough University. He has a background in a variety of sports including American Football, Athletics and Swimming. He grew up with aspirations to pursue a life in Drama and Acting.
Contact Info
Instagram - @championsofcinema
Tiktok - @champions.of.cine
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51min
August 13, 2024 Rollerball (1975)
Rollerball is a 1975 dystopian sci-fi sports movie set in the futuristic year 2018! Telling us the story of its greatest player, Johnathan E (James Caan)! In what would start a run of similar movies with dystopian futuristic films director and writer Norman Jewison delves into a world without countries, where corporations run the world captivated by the hyper violent game of Rollerball!
Joe and James explore themes of slavery, stoicism and coming to terms with the inability to affect ones reality whilst playing a sport. How this movie borrowed from Kubrick whilst also paving the way for a whole raft of dystopian sci-fi in the future.
The Hosts
Joe Walker is a Sports Coach and graduate of Loughborough University, with 16 years coaching experience and a degree in Sports Coaching. His first passion has always been movies and the stories that they tell.
James Marshall is a National Championship winning athlete and graduate of Loughborough University. He has a background in a variety of sports including American Football, Athletics and Swimming. He grew up with aspirations to pursue a life in Drama and Acting.
Contact Info
Instagram - @championsofcinema
Tiktok - @champions.of.cine
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FAQs about Champions of Cinema:

How many episodes does Champions of Cinema have?

The podcast currently has 31 episodes available.