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  • The Natural (1984)

    It’s a sentimental view of a slugger and the game. It’s based on a novel by Bernard Malamud and features a strong cast led by Robert Redford. Baseball romantics love it and see it as [...]

    by admin in Media Nook on April 1st, 2010 at 12:04 am
  • The Bad News Bears (1976)

    The best pure baseball comedy, this movie reminded everyone what Little League was really like. Walter Matthau and Tatum O’Neal were perfect in their roles, and all of the foul-mouthed kids fit together beautifully.

    by admin in Media Nook on April 1st, 2010 at 12:04 am
  • Bull Durham (1988)

    Baseball is treated with casual reverence: It’s a great game, and we love it, but it is a game. Costner is at his best, and Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon are perfect complements. The romance [...]

    by admin in Media Nook on April 1st, 2010 at 12:04 am
  • The Pride of the Yankees (1942)

    Much is made about Gary Cooper (as Gehrig) not really being lefthanded, but in this movie it hardly matters. Viewed today, It’s a hopelessly sentimental movie, but it was made in a different age and [...]

    by admin in Media Nook on April 1st, 2010 at 12:04 am
  • Field of Dreams (1989)

    This movie captures better than any other the mystical hold that baseball can have over people. Kevin Costner and the rest of the cast are great in this adaptation of W.P. Kinsella’s novel “Shoeless Joe.” [...]

    by admin in Media Nook on April 1st, 2010 at 12:04 am
  • Movie: Dear John

    This movie is about a young soldier who falls for an idealistic college girl. Savannah Curtis was on spring break when she first met John Tyree, who was home on temporary leave. For the smitten [...]

    by admin in Media Nook on March 1st, 2010 at 12:03 am
  • Book: Committed

    In this continuation of her bestselling sensation EAT, PRAY, LOVE, Elizabeth Gilbert comes to realize that finding the man of her dreams might be easier than staying married to him. Though both Gilbert and Felipe, [...]

    by admin in Media Nook on March 1st, 2010 at 12:03 am
  • Video: Amelia

    Amelia is the Mira Nair’s latest movie and stars Hillary Swank as the famous aviatrix, Amelia Earhart. Amelia follows Earhart from 1928 to her disappearance somewhere over the Pacific Ocean during her attempt to be [...]

    by admin in Media Nook on March 1st, 2010 at 12:03 am
  • Video: My Sister’s Keeper

    A drama about a pair of parents who resort to unorthodox methods in order to save their young daughter’s life. Sara and Brian are coasting through life when tragedy threatens to tear the family apart. [...]

    by admin in Media Nook on March 1st, 2010 at 12:03 am
  • DVD: THE OTHER MAN

    A man travels to Milan in hopes of tracking down his missing wife , only to discover that she was leading a secret life after crossing paths with her handsome lover . Devastated and enraged, [...]

    by Tarik in Media Nook on February 1st, 2010 at 12:02 pm
  • DVD: ANGELS & DEMONS

    Although the book Angels and Demons was written before the novel The Da Vinci Code, the movie transpires after the events of the earlier movie. Tom Hanks stars as professor Robert Langdon, the most respected [...]

    by admin in Media Nook on February 1st, 2010 at 12:02 pm
  • Book: TREATING THE BRAIN

    “Here’s a man in a white coat who gets right to the point, makes it clearly—and has a good story to tell along the way. Chairman emeritus of the neurology department at the University of [...]

    by admin in Media Nook on February 1st, 2010 at 12:02 pm
  • Book: GAME CHANGE

    Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime is a political expose book about the 2008 presidential election. Written by political reporters John Heilemann and Mark Halperin, the book reveals [...]

    by admin in Media Nook on February 1st, 2010 at 12:02 pm
  • Book: The LaCuna, Barbara Kingsolver

    In her most accomplished novel, Barbara Kingsolver takes us on an epic journey from the Mexico City of artists Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo to the America of Pearl Harbor, FDR, and J. Edgar Hoover. [...]

    by admin in Media Nook on January 5th, 2010 at 02:01 pm
  • DVD: Public Enemies

    With a nation in the throes of the Great Depression, John Dillinger (Johnny Depp) and his band of thugs (including Stephen Dorff, David Wenham, and Jason Clarke) built a name for themselves as they tore [...]

    by admin in Media Nook on January 5th, 2010 at 02:01 pm