On this new entry in the special episode series Breaking It Apart, I’m joined by Noah Gittell for an episode on The Bad News Bears. This 1976 Walter Matthau baseball comedy inspired all kinds of movies from sports films to misfit teams to the many movies we’ve had since about adult men behaving badly. Puzzle pieces include Little Big League, Caddy Shack, School of Rock and Big Daddy.
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On the 336th episode of Piecing It Together, filmmaker/actress Lizette Hunter joins me to talk about Blue Beetle. DC’s superhero universes are in a state of flux and it’s a little hard to know how much any of this matters in the grand scheme of things, but their first Latinx superhero is still makes for a fun movie worth talking about. Puzzle pieces include Venom, The Mitchells Vs The Machines, Spider-Man and Encanto.
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On this special episode of Piecing It Together, I got the opportunity to interview Scott Evans, an author and inventor who also happens to be the guy who was the real kid that went over that wall to retrieve a baseball from a vicious dog named Hercules in the classic family film The Sandlot. Scott has a new book out called Pacoima Days about the true stories of his youth that led to both The Sandlot and another movie written by his brother, David Mickey Evans, Radio Flyer. We have a great conversation about his book and the movies that inspired and were inspired by The Sandlot
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