80 FOR BRADY MOVIE REVIEW

Ah, 2017. Such a different time. A world before an ongoing pandemic, a world of Spider-man Homecoming and Beyonce pregnant with twins. A time when four elderly best friends and massive fans of the New England Patriots, particularly the team’s star quarterback Tom Brady, decided to celebrate the Patriots’ victory over the Pittsburgh Steelers in the AFC Championship Game by making the wild trip to Houston and Super Bowl LI. 80 for Brady is the sort of based on a true story movie that brings a smile to a person’s face, that is if you aren’t a cynical jerk just looking to be mad at a movie starring Lily Tomlin, Jane Fonda, Rita Moreno, and Sally Field that was clearly not made for you. Lucky for this review, Frank, Melina, Ben, and T.C. are more than happy to share their enjoyment of this breezy road trip comedy. And why shouldn’t they have fun with it? These legendary women have a combined two centuries, several Oscars, Tonys, and Emmys, and the comedy chops necessary to tell this lovely tale about football, Tom Brady, and confronting the indignities of aging and the limits of mortality.

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DIRECTED BY: Kyle Marvin

STARRING: Lily Tomlin, Jane Fonda, Rita Moreno, Sally Field, Tom Brady, Billy Porter, Rob Corddry, Alex Moffat, Harry Hamlin, Bob Balaban, Glynn Turman, Sara Gilbert, Jimmy O. Yang, Ron Funches, Sally Kirkland, Alex Bentley, Patton Oswalt, Guy Fieri, Retta

 

YOUR REVIEWERS

 

T.C. De Witt (Screener Squad)

T.C. De Witt is a multi-awarded writer/director originally from Wisconsin and now based in Los Angeles. His life has been devoted to the arts since he was a child. He’s been a stage performer, playwright, stand-up comic, film and television actor, radio DJ, podcaster published author, recorded musician, and comic writer/illustrator. He is now a professional screenwriter and has been thriving for the past decade, regularly offering his talents to production studios in LA, Chicago, Milwaukee, and internationally in Sydney and Poland. He’s provided content for Amazon Prime, Netflix, and several YouTube partners. His films have screened internationally, and his stageplays have been performed across the country. In the last ten years, he has directed 57 films, 23 episodes of his series The One Minute Rewatch, 300+ episodes of podcasts, and his multi-award-winning short film Screen: Righter screened at the Festival de Cannes in 2016. He has released two feature films, The Princess Knight and A Christmas Sunset. He thrives on collaboration and the thrill of sharing stories in all forms.

 

 

Frank Calvillo (Highly Suspect Reviews, Screener Squad)

Born and raised in South Texas, Frank currently lives in Austin and has been in love with movies ever since his father showed him some Three Stooges shorts when he was five years old. Today he loves all kinds of film, regardless of era, country, budget or genre. He believes every film has an audience and is at least one person’s favorite movie. After writing for Sight & Sound and Slackerwood, he now writes for Cinapse where his increasingly random taste in all flavors of cinema (from Rashomon to Mars Attacks!) continues to thrive. His ultimate goal is to write a script for his boyhood crush, Michelle Pfeiffer.

 

 

Melina Eames (Screener Squad)

Melina first discovered that she carried the nerd gene at the tender age of four following her exposure to a little film called A New Hope. In the twenty-some years that followed, Melina continued to grow into her geek identity through the discovery of Batman, Mst3k, Game of Thrones, Lord of the Rings and The Mandalorian. But perhaps her most significant discovery came at the age of fourteen when a night of YouTube mining led her to the review site of Spill.com.