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The Streaming Wars began in November and we are enlisting this month with Netflix (and Amazon Plus) as we discuss The Irishman and Marriage Story. With movie man Will From America back from Disney World, we also run down what hit or miss as you make a run at catching up on what to watch before this year ends.

Movies covered in Recent Watches: Knives Out, The Report, American Factory, Charlie’s Angels, A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, Frozen 2, I Lost My Hand, Ford v Ferrari.

Running may be the original sport but to determine the best racing movies of all time, we culled together humanity's finest achievements in running, jockeying and driving on the silver screen. Running icon Bart Yasso (@BartYasso) joins us for the running films (first 33 minutes). All together we run down 21 racing movies -- and yes, we included Ricky Bobby -- with seven earning pole position to the 64 all-sports movie tournament we are hosting in March 2020.

You can check here to see the winners to date in our sports movie marathon, plus explore all the running movie rankings we aggregated to seed the movies reviewed by Bart.

For information on the Sara and Ryan Hall led group visit to Israel for the Jerusalem Marathon, see for details:  www.israelexplorer.com

The outre song is “The Distance” by Cake.

If you enjoyed this episode, check out our previous episodes:

14. October Movies and Parasite

13. Sports Movies #4 - Football (feat. guest Robbie Wilkinson)

12. Joker

11. September Movies, Hustlers and Ad Astra

10. August Movies, Blinded By the Light, and Our Favorite Box Office Bombs

9. Sports Movies #3 - Basketball (feat. guest Eddie Maisonet III)

8. Sports Movies Bracket #2 - Golf and Tennis (feat. guest Chris Nashawaty)

7. July Movies, Once Upon A Time in Hollywood and the Best Films about Hollywood

6. Sports Movies Bracket #1 - Soccer and Hockey (feat. guest Lee Jutton)

5. Deep Dive: Spider-Man: Far From Home and Midsommar

4. June Movies, Toy Story 4 and Movies From Childhood

3. May Movies, Booksmart and Malta Movies

2. April Movies, Avengers: Endgame and MCU Ranking

1. March Movies, High Flying Bird and Us

Sammy saw Bong Joon-ho's Parasite earlier this year at the Jerusalem Film Festival and, after months of waiting, finally gets the chance to talk about it with Will and Av. A spoiler-filled deep dive into the film that has electrified critics and audiences alike begins at the 20-minute mark. That, plus recent watches and a Halloween version of Classic Corner, on the October episode of 32 Fans Movies.

Movies covered in Recent Watches:  One Cut of the Dead, Dolemite is my Name, Jojo Rabbit, The Lighthouse, The Laundromat, Maleficent: Mistress of Evil

All Hallows' Eve and the World Series are the perfect backdrop as we decide the best baseball movie of all time. FanGraph’s Jason Martinez (@mlbdepthcharts) joins us, with Josh Kanter subbing in for regular host Will Seamon. Together we run down 24 baseball movies, with six earning tickets to the 64 all sports movie tournament we are hosting in March 2020.

You can check here to see the winners to date in our sports movie marathon, plus explore all the baseball movie rankings we aggregated to seed this episode's baseball bracket (The Sandlot was robbed!).

The outre song is "Willie Mickey and the Duke" by Terry Cashman.

If you enjoyed this episode, check out our previous episodes:

13. Sports Movies #4 - Football (feat. guest Robbie Wilkinson)

12. Joker

11. September Movies, Hustlers and Ad Astra

10. August Movies, Blinded By the Light, and Our Favorite Box Office Bombs

9. Sports Movies #3 - Basketball (feat. guest Eddie Maisonet III)

8. Sports Movies Bracket #2 - Golf and Tennis (feat. guest Chris Nashawaty)

7. July Movies, Once Upon A Time in Hollywood and the Best Films about Hollywood

6. Sports Movies Bracket #1 - Soccer and Hockey (feat. guest Lee Jutton)

5. Deep Dive: Spider-Man: Far From Home and Midsommar

4. June Movies, Toy Story 4 and Movies From Childhood

3. May Movies, Booksmart and Malta Movies

2. April Movies, Avengers: Endgame and MCU Ranking

1. March Movies, High Flying Bird and Us

In this episode we bracket together the best sixteen football movies of all time, crowning a champion and sending six deserving movies onto the 64 movie tournament 32Fans Movies is hosting in March 2020 composed of the best movies from every sport.

Joining us is Texas football coach Robbie Wilkinson (@robwilkinson777), taking a sabbatical from the holy grail of midlands peewee ball to discuss Any Given Sunday's nods to masonry and batman, plus which of our mom's knows something you don't about Jerry Maguire.

You can check here to see the winners to date in our sports movie marathon, plus explore all the rankings we aggregated to seed this episode's football movies.

The outre song is "Madden 2000 Theme" by Ludacris.

If you enjoyed this episode, check out our previous episodes:

12. Joker

11. September Movies, Hustlers and Ad Astra

10. August Movies, Blinded By the Light, and Our Favorite Box Office Bombs

9. Sports Movies #3 - Basketball (feat. guest Eddie Maisonet III)

8. Sports Movies Bracket #2 - Golf and Tennis (feat. guest Chris Nashawaty)

7. July Movies, Once Upon A Time in Hollywood and the Best Films about Hollywood

6. Sports Movies Bracket #1 - Soccer and Hockey (feat. guest Lee Jutton)

5. Deep Dive: Spider-Man: Far From Home and Midsommar

4. June Movies, Toy Story 4 and Movies From Childhood

3. May Movies, Booksmart and Malta Movies

2. April Movies, Avengers: Endgame and MCU Ranking

1. March Movies, High Flying Bird and Us

Will Seamon, Av Sinensky and Zach Brooks join to talk all things Joker in this spoiler-filled discussion of the latest from Todd Phillips and Joaquin Phoenix, including a ranking of our favorite portrayals of The Joker over the years (38:00).

You can also check each of them out on Twitter and Letterboxd for their takes on movies and everything else:

Will - @WillFromAmerica; https://letterboxd.com/willfromamerica 

Av - @asinensky; https://letterboxd.com/asinensky

Zach - @brooksza;  https://letterboxd.com/brooksza

In which Av slams Rambo, Will admits Jennifer Lopez from the recently release Hustlers reminds him of his mom and Sam presents a radical fix to vastly improve our feature review: Ad Astra (hint: Rufus!).

Segment Times (spoiler discussions):

Hustlers: 6:10

Ad Astra: 21:40

Sammy Chester and Will Seamon are joined by Av Sinensky to discuss new releases of August 2019 and Blinded by the Light, as well as their favorite box office bombs.

0:00 Intro

1:50 Sidewalk Film Festival (incl. The Nightingale)

14:00 New Releases (incl. Good Boys and Ready or Not?)

25:33 Luce

35:55 Blinded by the Light

59:46 Favorite Box Office Bombs

1:10:29 Classics Corner

If you want the "dark gritty raw truths" of basketball movies, this episode is for you. As Team USA battles it out in China, ESPN's Eddie Maisonet III (@edthesportsfan) joins us to determine the best basketball movies of all time, the first made in America sport we are tackling in our year long sports movie marathon.

You can check here to see the winners to date in the sports movie marathon, plus explore all the rankings we aggregated to seed the basketball movies.  

The outre song is Kurtis Blow's 1984 "Basketball."

If you enjoyed this episode, check out our previous episodes:

1. Sports Movies Bracket #2 - Golf and Tennis (feat. guest Chris Nashawaty)

2. July Movies, Once Upon A Time in Hollywood and the Best Films about Hollywood

3. Sports Movies Bracket #1 - Soccer and Hockey (feat. guest Lee Jutton)

4. Deep Dive: Spider-Man: Far From Home and Midsommar

5. June Movies, Toy Story 4 and Movies From Childhood

6. May Movies, Booksmart and Malta Movies

7. April Movies, Avengers: Endgame and MCU Ranking

8. March Movies, High Flying Bird and Us

After crowning the best soccer and hockey movies in our first sport movie marathon episode, we turn now to GOLF (8:55) and TENNIS (35:30) movies, joined by film critic Chris Nashawaty (@ChrisNashawaty), author of the award winning book Caddyshack: The Making of a Hollywood Cinderella Story. 

Also - you do not want to miss co-host Will's acoustic rendition (30:50) of the hit song Dead Solid Perfect.

If you enjoyed this episode, check out our previous episodes:

2. Sports Movies Bracket #1 - Soccer and Hockey (feat. guest Lee Jutton)