‘National Champions’ Review: A Formulaic & Safe Sports Movie Takes No Risks

Hitting the beach with her brood! Meghan King is healing from her and Cuffe Owens’ split with a Florida vacation.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterThe National Board of Review has postponed its annual gala, which was scheduled to be held on Jan.

The National Board of Review announced this morning that they will postpone their annual Gala, which was set to be held on Jan. 11, 2022 in New York City, to a later date. NBR is the latest awards gala to postpone during the upcoming Oscar season due to the rising Omicron variant alongside Critics Choice Awards and AFI Luncheon. Palm Springs International Film Festival canceled their awards gala.

Tom Rinaldi has a Christmas wish.

Baby steps! Sadie Robertson showed her 7-month-old daughter, Honey, starting to walk on Sunday, December 19.

NBC ruled Sunday primetime with the latest Sunday Night Football game between the Chicago Bears and Green Bay Packers earning the evening’s top demo rating and highest viewership.

EXCLUSIVE: Deadline has the first exclusive tracks from Jay Wadley’s Swan Song score, which is set for digital release via Lakeshore Records on December 17—the same day that the Apple Original Film premieres  in theaters and globally on Apple TV+.

Joe Leydon Film CriticAs timely as last night’s episode of “ESPN Sports Center,” and as riveting as a well-crafted tick-tock suspenser, “National Champions” adroitly avoids most of the pitfalls common to conventional “message movies” by raising and debating issues in the context of a solid and involving drama that can be enjoyed even by people who couldn’t tell an offside kick from a cheerleader’s cartwheel.

FIFA 22 can now pick up exact replicas of in-game kits from sporting good retailer Sports Direct.EA Sports and Sports Direct have teamed up to provide replica shirts available now. The shirts are available in both home (white) and away (black) with the gold patterns seen in FIFA Ultimate Team.The shirts are available exclusively at Sports Direct, either online or in-store.

“It was a scary goddamn week,” explains a trio of “I Love Lucy” showrunners in a fictional present-day documentary. Aaron Sorkin’s snappy, slick, crowd-pleasing biopic, “Being the Ricardos,” through unfailing comedic precision yet uneven dramatic tension, recounts those terrifying seven days during October 1953, when news broke of Lucille Ball being a member of the Communist Party.

A government inquiry into the state of social services across the UK has been launched following the brutal killing of tot Arthur Labinjo-Hughes.

A national review into the state of social services will be launched after the killing of Arthur Labinjo-Hughes.

Lost In Translation and The Beguiled, has revealed her favourite movie scenes of all time.The Oscar-winning screenwriter and director broke down her ten favourite scenes on BBC’s Life Cinematic with Edith Bowman, divided by categories like sound design, perfect casting and perfect performance.Lost In Translation was particularly inspired by a scene between Trevor Howard and Celia Johnson in the 1945 film Brief Encounter.