Field Of Screens - The Sports Movie Podcast

This week James and dKiff enjoy another healthy dollop of Costner as they take a look at the highly requested and recommended baseball classic Bull Durham! CONNECT WITH US - WE LOVE HEARING FROM LISTENERS Twitter - @fos_pod Instagram - @fos_pod Email - fieldofscreenspod@gmail.com Merch - https://www.redbubble.com/people/SportsMoviePod Kofi - https://ko-fi.com/fospod

This week it's the finale to the epic audio drama Hi-YAH! as well as discussions on the new Rooney documentary, Cobra Kai Season 3 and the best single scene in sports movie history! Enjoy! GET IN TOUCH Web: sportsmovie.co.uk linktr.ee/fospod  Email: fieldofscreenspod@gmail.com Twitter & Insta: @fos_pod Music copyright details -  https://www.epidemicsound.com/track/BGlHlMSuB7/ https://www.epidemicsound.com/track/nYiWVKiKI5/ https://www.epidemicsound.com/track/SYYD70jueu/ https://www.epidemicsound.com/track/0vy4SvB0fa/ https://www.epidemicsound.com/track/wy2R9p76tx/ https://www.epidemicsound.com/track/c9gFftt5SS/ https://www.epidemicsound.com/track/VVwVUUkVnL/ https://www.epidemicsound.com/track/XNsFuBEVJd/ https://www.epidemicsound.com/track/hf36A4I62O/ https://www.epidemicsound.com/track/ipBzLUtq3N/ https://www.epidemicsound.com/track/dTwIvTUr7l/ https://www.epidemicsound.com/track/Xbv6Tcaj25/ https://www.epidemicsound.com/track/ceznzKB14e/ https://www.epidemicsound.com/track/dOY7cekh63/ https://www.epidemicsound.com/track/xU9O0U1ciG/ https://www.epidemicsound.com/track/tFRCFprKF7/ https://www.epidemicsound.com/track/BcdKO88MXS/ https://www.epidemicsound.com/track/QedRa7qcdT/ https://www.epidemicsound.com/track/RuRUxXHoKk/ https://www.epidemicsound.com/track/9vH6BoL9G5/

This week James and dKiff watch the multi-Oscar winning Million Dollar Baby. A movie that both had somehow never seen yet neither had avoided learning the ending. CONNECT WITH US - WE LOVE HEARING FROM LISTENERS Twitter - @fos_pod Instagram - @fos_pod Email - fieldofscreenspod@gmail.com Merch - https://www.redbubble.com/people/SportsMoviePod Kofi - https://ko-fi.com/fospod

After a prolonged absence James and dKiff return with another instalment of Retrospective ACTION! With a lot to catch up on and discuss including belated Christmas gifts, new year wishes and more than a little bit of tv and movie watching! GET IN TOUCH Web: sportsmovie.co.uk linktr.ee/fospod  Email: fieldofscreenspod@gmail.com Twitter & Insta: @fos_pod Music copyright details -  https://www.epidemicsound.com/track/BGlHlMSuB7/ https://www.epidemicsound.com/track/ipBzLUtq3N/ https://www.epidemicsound.com/track/dTwIvTUr7l/ https://www.epidemicsound.com/track/4h61nBskJT/ https://www.epidemicsound.com/track/ceznzKB14e/ https://www.epidemicsound.com/track/Xbv6Tcaj25/ https://www.epidemicsound.com/track/9vH6BoL9G5/ https://www.epidemicsound.com/track/dOY7cekh63/ https://www.epidemicsound.com/track/kd2FCc6EVD/  

It's a festive feast of...well not an actual sports movie. But it is within the world of Sports Entertainment as legendary wrestler Hulk Hogan steps into the role of Santa in a truly uninspiring mess of a movie. Don't watch it. But do listen to our review. It's way more fun! CONNECT WITH US - WE LOVE HEARING FROM LISTENERS Twitter - @fos_pod Instagram - @fos_pod Email - fieldofscreenspod@gmail.com Merch - https://www.redbubble.com/people/SportsMoviePod Kofi - https://ko-fi.com/fospod MUSIC COPYRIGHT DETAILS https://www.epidemicsound.com/track/unGHmjzBDI/  https://www.epidemicsound.com/track/V1F2iwUZ3T/ https://www.epidemicsound.com/track/pG27rE0D5m/ https://www.epidemicsound.com/track/xLNIOVh8Ud/ https://www.epidemicsound.com/track/TyPtEKzYg6/ https://www.epidemicsound.com/track/13Cfml24pD/   

It's time for more Retrospective Action! This week we have the amazing Hi-YAH! episode three, 'deleted scenes' from Air Bud and a recap of Cobra Kai season one!! Not to mention some teasers ahead of our Christmas episode on Santa With Muscles! GET IN TOUCH Web: sportsmovie.co.uk linktr.ee/fospod  Email: fieldofscreenspod@gmail.com Twitter & Insta: @fos_pod Music copyright details -  FormantX - Destiny Rising Mandala Dreams - Origami Voyage Lupus Nocte - Hadouken Sound effect: Whip Whoosh Medium 2 Sound effect: Whip Whoosh Large 3 https://www.epidemicsound.com/track/Ppqlwz4E5u/  https://www.epidemicsound.com/track/s5pOLU5XbV/ https://www.epidemicsound.com/track/bloK41SecR/ https://www.epidemicsound.com/track/5QrSlB2kp4/ https://www.epidemicsound.com/track/T49iiTZ0Zo/ https://www.epidemicsound.com/track/kuqrBtUYj5/  

This week, in lieu of a review James and dKiff hand out some coveted prizes at a star studded event. Who will win, Coach of the Year, Villain of the Year, Soundbite of the Year to name but a few! And who will be the inaugural inductees into the new wings of the Sports Movie Hall of Fame?! MUSIC & SFX INFO Crowd Applause 1 https://www.epidemicsound.com/track/XVRZZdvnZ5/  Catch Me (Sting Version) https://www.epidemicsound.com/track/WD1oMilAIc/  It Ain't Too Much (Sting Version) https://www.epidemicsound.com/track/yrqOfPHAQf/  Drum Snare Roll - https://www.epidemicsound.com/track/seCoy02sAl/  Human Crowd Studio 41 - https://www.epidemicsound.com/track/0zZ3BqOofX/  Succesful Disarming (Sting) - https://www.epidemicsound.com/track/U0oYxpkqfg/  Hit Metallic Slam 11 - https://www.epidemicsound.com/track/4tXtsL7ndX/  Human Crowd Studio 8 - https://www.epidemicsound.com/track/nhJEO7gsRT/  https://www.epidemicsound.com/track/toMBvPZviW/ https://www.epidemicsound.com/track/2IkzZKW1Kd/   https://www.epidemicsound.com/track/XVRZZdvnZ5/

This week James and dKiff watch the first instalment of the #1 Sports Movie Franchise ever! [citation needed] It's the first foray into the world of animal movies with the delightful Air Bud, a movie one of our hosts says is officially better than Rocky. GET IN TOUCH Web: sportsmovie.co.uk linktr.ee/fospod  Email: fieldofscreenspod@gmail.com Twitter & Insta: @fos_pod Facebook: @fospod

On this week's Retrospective ACTION! James and dKiff talk about smashing through the glass ceiling and hitting the heights of the Apple Podcasts charts as well as looking back at Teen Wolf and Friday Night Lights and looking forward to Hi-Yah Episode Two! GET IN TOUCH Web: sportsmovie.co.uk linktr.ee/fospod  Email: fieldofscreenspod@gmail.com Twitter & Insta: @fos_pod Music copyright details -  Hampus Naeselius - Breaking Through the Gate Yi Nantiro - The Dice Is Cast Sight of Wonders - Japanese Garden FormantX - Destiny Rising

This week James and dKiff look at the original film version of one of their favourite TV shows, Friday Night Lights! Will it be yet more love for the franchise or heartbreak in Texas for the guys? GET IN TOUCH Web: sportsmovie.co.uk linktr.ee/fospod  Email: fieldofscreenspod@gmail.com Twitter & Insta: @fos_pod Facebook: @fospod

On this edition of Retrospective ACTION! James and dKiff welcome Sports Journalist Sonia Twigg who was at the premiere of the new Arsene Wenger movie, they read out listeners comments on Teen Wolf and it's finally time for the long awaited debut of Hi-YAH!  GET IN TOUCH Web: sportsmovie.co.uk linktr.ee/fospod  Email: fieldofscreenspod@gmail.com Twitter & Insta: @fos_pod Music copyright details -  Star Wars end theme - John Williams Kung Fu Fighting - Carl Douglas Dragon Tamer / Conquest - https://www.epidemicsound.com/track/tROu0Eg8Gd/ Sight of Wonders / Japanese Garden - https://www.epidemicsound.com/track/4EexXHllhO/ 

This week for a delayed Halloween special James and dKiff take a look at Teen Wolf! Surely nobody could disagree that this is a stone cold classic, but is it worthy of the Hall of Fame? GET IN TOUCH Web: sportsmovie.co.uk linktr.ee/fospod  Email: fieldofscreenspod@gmail.com Twitter & Insta: @fos_pod Facebook: @fospod

On this edition of Retrospective ACTION! there is yet more Rocky IV Director's Cut news, but it's out soon so we shouldn't have to talk about it many more times. We also discussed the new Robbie Savage documentary and tease a brand new series of original content! GET IN TOUCH Web: sportsmovie.co.uk linktr.ee/fospod  Email: fieldofscreenspod@gmail.com Twitter & Insta: @fos_pod Facebook: @fospod

This week (in a very rambling chat) the guys review Battle of the Sexes starring Emma Stone and Steve Carell. A fascinating look at an intriguing true story and a lot to enjoy!  GET IN TOUCH Web: sportsmovie.co.uk linktr.ee/fospod  Email: fieldofscreenspod@gmail.com Twitter & Insta: @fos_pod Facebook: @fospod

On this edition of Retrospective ACTION! the guys discuss Rocky IV Director's Cut, if Chang Can Dunk is an offensive title and read out comments and questions from the listeners! Enjoy! GET IN TOUCH Web: sportsmovie.co.uk linktr.ee/fospod  Email: fieldofscreenspod@gmail.com Twitter & Insta: @fos_pod Facebook: @fospod

This week James and dKiff look at the movie that kicked off an apparent love of sequels for Sylvester Stallone! It's the classic rematch of the century, ding ding, Rocky II. GET IN TOUCH Web: sportsmovie.co.uk linktr.ee/fospod  Email: fieldofscreenspod@gmail.com Twitter & Insta: @fos_pod Facebook: @fospod

The first instalment of our new format where we split up our show into more manageable chunks hopefully to the benefit of all of us! This week we retrospectively react to Moneyball, answer listeners questions and suggestions and discuss the latest sports movie news. GET IN TOUCH Web: sportsmovie.co.uk linktr.ee/fospod  Email: fieldofscreenspod@gmail.com Twitter & Insta: @fos_pod Facebook: @fospod  

This week James and dKiff take a look at one of dKiff's all time favourite films. The baseball/statistics movie that is Moneyball! Happy Birthday to dKiff! Now officially early-mid-thirties. GET IN TOUCH Web: sportsmovie.co.uk linktr.ee/fospod  Email: fieldofscreenspod@gmail.com Twitter & Insta: @fos_pod Facebook: @fospod

This week James and dKiff take a look at the highly requested Dodgeball. Possibly one of the most memorable sports movies of all time and one of the most popular comedies too. But how do the themes of the movie hold up today, and does it still make you laugh? GET IN TOUCH Web: sportsmovie.co.uk linktr.ee/fospod  Email: fieldofscreenspod@gmail.com Twitter & Insta: @fos_pod Facebook: @fospod

This week James and dKiff take a look at the much suggested Tin Cup! A Golf movie which has a name that refers to baseball but that's not the only misdirect! There's much more than meets the eye in a flick that takes a couple of unexpected shots. GET IN TOUCH Web: sportsmovie.co.uk linktr.ee/fospod  Email: fieldofscreenspod@gmail.com Twitter & Insta: @fos_pod Facebook: @fospod

This week James and dKiff take a look at the fascinating true story about the early days of skateboarding as we now know it. Long before the likes of Tony Hawk would make the sport a world wide phenomenon it was a small group of teens sneaking into yards to use empty pools during a heatwave that would revolutionise the sport. GET IN TOUCH Web: sportsmovie.co.uk linktr.ee/fospod  Email: fieldofscreenspod@gmail.com Twitter & Insta: @fos_pod Facebook: @fospod

This week James and dKiff complete the The Karate Kid trilogy! How will the final part fair against it's two predecessors? Will it fight it's way itno the Hall of Fame? And will Ralph Macchio's long lost Mac and Cheese single ever get the recognition it deserves? Listen to find out! GET IN TOUCH Web: sportsmovie.co.uk linktr.ee/fospod  Email: fieldofscreenspod@gmail.com Twitter & Insta: @fos_pod Facebook: @fospod

In this week's episode James and dKiff discuss Diggstown a film from a genuine sports movie auteur and from the glory year for sports movies, 1992. Suggested by a podcast friend with a promo to another podcast friend included. Enjoy!  GET IN TOUCH Web: sportsmovie.co.uk linktr.ee/fospod  Email: fieldofscreenspod@gmail.com Twitter & Insta: @fos_pod Facebook: @fospod

In this week's BONUS EPISODE of Retrospective ACTION! James and dKiff look back on their sports movie MVPs for the first ten films they reviewed and have a little chat about who's star shined brightest! A fun chat! Enjoy! GET IN TOUCH Web: sportsmovie.co.uk linktr.ee/fospod  Email: fieldofscreenspod@gmail.com Twitter & Insta: @fos_pod Facebook: @fospod

This week James and dKiff team up with their friends from The Scoreless Thriller Podcast to take a look at United Passions, a movie that's so bad it's bad. But while the movie may be terrible these guys have a good laugh taking it apart so enjoy! GET IN TOUCH Web: sportsmovie.co.uk linktr.ee/fospod  Email: fieldofscreenspod@gmail.com Twitter & Insta: @fos_pod Facebook: @fospod

This week James and dKiff take a look at the low budget Scottish smash hit Gregory's Girl. A charming tale about a boy that loves beauties even more than the beautiful game and the girl that bests the men on their own pitch. Is it a bit old fashioned and are there some potentially questionable teachers at the school? Of course there are! It's the 80s!   GET IN TOUCH Web: sportsmovie.co.uk linktr.ee/fospod  Email: fieldofscreenspod@gmail.com Twitter & Insta: @fos_pod Facebook: @fospod

This week James and dKiff embrace a hallmark of the British summer by watching 2004's Wimbledon! It's fair to say this film splits public opinion and for the first real time the opinion of our hosts too! Check it out and get in touch with your opinions on this one! GET IN TOUCH Web: sportsmovie.co.uk linktr.ee/fospod  Email: fieldofscreenspod@gmail.com Twitter & Insta: @fos_pod Facebook: @fospod

This week James and dKiff dissect Goal II: Living The Dream the sequel to a movie that the boys both enjoyed tremendously a few episodes ago! But will this instalment recapture the magic? GET IN TOUCH Web: sportsmovie.co.uk Email: fieldofscreenspod@gmail.com Twitter & Instagram: @fos_pod Facebook: @fospod

This week James and dKiff complete the trilogy of Mighty Ducks movies with the third and final instalment of the franchise. Can it hit the heights of the original or will it be even worse than the sequel? Give it a listen to find out! GET IN TOUCH Email: fieldofscreenspod@gmail.com Twitter: @fos_pod Facebook: @fospod

This week James and dKiff watch the highschool foootball classic Varsity Blues featuring a slew of 90s talents, music and themes! Will this one make the Hall of Fame? GET IN TOUCH Email: fieldofscreenspod@gmail.com Twitter: @fos_pod

After a successful first twenty episodes James and dKiff decide to revisit the films they've already reviewed and check if the scores they gave at the time still hold true with how they now feel about them. Retrospectively retconning scores both up and down as they go! This episode also sees the first entrants to the Field Of Screens Hall Of Fame! GET IN TOUCH Email: fieldofscreenspod@gmail.com Twitter: @fos_pod

This week James and dKiff take a look at Top Gun With Cars, also known as Days of Thunder. It's probably the best NASCAR movie ever, but does that mean it's good or will it end up grinding your gears?   GET IN TOUCH Email: fieldofscreenspod@gmail.com Twitter: @fos_pod

This week James and dKiff have watched the sequel to one of the best loved sports movies of all time. This time it's the master not the apprentice who takes centre stage and with a notable change of pace will this movie be as popular with East Sussex's most dangerous duo as the original? Listen to find out!   GET IN TOUCH Email: fieldofscreenspod@gmail.com Twitter: @fos_pod

This week James and dKiff take a nostalgic look back at mid noughties football and discover a movie they thought was bad might have aged like a fine wine.   GET IN TOUCH Email: fieldofscreenspod@gmail.com Twitter: @fos_pod

This week James and dKiff weren't too jazzed to be watching Seabiscuit, a tale of a little horse that could. But dKiff forced them into it so he could loosely tie it to the Grand National then didn't finish the edit in time so here we are. Still a good episode though! Enjoy! GET IN TOUCH Email: fieldofscreenspod@gmail.com Twitter: @fos_pod

This week James and dKiff look at the all time classic boxing movie that kicked off an astonishing franchise, 1976's Rocky! Surely there can be no hot takes on this one, can there?   GET IN TOUCH Email: fieldofscreenspod@gmail.com Twitter: @fos_pod

This week James and dKiff take a look at Space Jam, the last good basketball movie from the last good decade? Listen and find out!   GET IN TOUCH TWITTER - @fos_pod EMAIL - fieldofscreenspod@gmail.com

This week James and dKiff take on one of their most hotly anticipated films. The sequel to a film the chaps thoroughly enjoyed, D2: The Mighty Ducks. Will the sequel live up to the original, listen to find out! GET IN TOUCH TWITTER - @fos_pod EMAIL - fieldofscreenspod@gmail.com

James and dKiff take a look at the all time classic The Karate Kid, a film that one of them has never seen and the other has had their life impacted by it so much they made some surprising life choices and committed to film not just one but two self shot parody/tribute films. All will be revealed... GET IN TOUCH TWITTER - @fos_pod EMAIL - fieldofscreenspod@gmail.com

This week James and dKiff look at the classic 1992 women's baseball movie A League Of Their Own. Is it true? Who's the MVP? Why does a bus driver throw dirt in a woman's face? Some of these questions will be answered.  GET IN TOUCH TWITTER - @fos_pod EMAIL - fieldofscreenspod@gmail.com

This week James and dKiff look at the classic football movie Any given Sunday. This movie may be twenty years old but it's themes around racism, placism and medical negligence among many other topics are as relevant today as they have ever been. Surely it's time for that follow up right? Any Given Monday? GET IN TOUCH TWITTER - @fos_pod EMAIL - fieldofscreenspod@gmail.com

Have you ever wondered how true that true story was? How accurate the sport in your favourite sport movie is? Or how badly the fashion choices of the late 90s have aged? Well wonder no more! Field of Screens, THE Sports Movie Podcast, presented by sports journalist David Kifford and Film Studies MA James Rowling look at a different entry to the genre and tear it apart limb from limb, or just ramble through a list of things they liked and didn't like. But it's funny, and interesting. We also keep you across the Sports Movie news and let you know what's on the streaming services for you to watch. Check us out, and if you enjoy it, hit subscribe and leave us a review! Enjoy GET IN TOUCH / Twitter: @Fos_Pod / Email: fieldofscreenspod@gmail.com  

This week for James's Birthday Special the chaps take a look at White Men Can't Jump, one of James' favourite of the genre. A sophisticated, sharp and funny look at the world of streetball in LA with more of a grounding in reality than you might first realise. GET IN TOUCH
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This week James and dKiff take a look at some classic Disney On Ice with 1992's The Mighty Ducks. Find out all about this comedy romp and see if the standards of almost thirty years ago still hold up today. Just as the resurrection of the franchise has been announced for a new Disney+ series. GET IN TOUCH TWITTER - @fos_pod EMAIL - fieldofscreenspod@gmail.com

In a bonus Retrospective ACTION! James and dKiff are joined by Rich from Betamax Video Club who also recently reviewed Escape To Victory on his own podcast. All three suggest and vote on the players that could take part in the POW side for the ever rumoured sequel. Bullard or Beckham? Kaka or Milner? Hardy or Jackman? All these decisions and more will be made! GET IN TOUCH TWITTER - @fos_pod EMAIL - fieldofscreenspod@gmail.com

This week James and dKiff have watched the true(ish) story that earned Steve Carell a Best Actor Oscar nomination, Foxcatcher. Both guys loved it the first time they watched this film but it seems like the years may not have treated this flick so well. What were the reasons for this? Listen to find out! GET IN TOUCH TWITTER - @fos_pod EMAIL - fieldofscreenspod@gmail.com

A bonus episode looking back at Rocky IV as James and dKiff are joined by special guest Ryan Rebalkin, the host of Going The Distance: The Rocky Series Podcast. Ryan contacted us after we released our Rocky episode and kindly agreed to join us for a little conversation. We loved having Ryan on the show and his knowledge and love of Rocky, and almost all things Sly, was clear to see. Hopefully the first of many chats we'll bring you, I'm sure you'll all enjoy listening to him. Oh an dhit up his podcast too, it's great! GET IN TOUCH TWITTER - @fos_pod EMAIL - fieldofscreenspod@gmail.com

This week James and dKiff watch the award winning Le Mans '66, or Ford v Ferrari as it's known across the pond. Not the strongest of titles but the film itself sure seemed to rev up our engines! Matt Damon and Christian Bale lead a great cast in what could be the mostly high rated film we've reviewed yet. This episode also features a short chat with Ryan Rebalkin, the host of Going The Distance: The Rocky Series Podcast and a full length bonus episode will be available very soon! Enjoy! GET IN TOUCH TWITTER - @fos_pod EMAIL - fieldofscreenspod@gmail.com

Happy Brexit New Year! To commemorate the historic moment in British history James and dKiff watch and review Escape To Victory, a movie nostalgic for the times when a rag-tag bunch of Brits (*and a load of Europeans, a couple of South Americans and a Canadian-enlisted American) could single-handedly defeat (*draw with) the best the Nazi regime could muster. The biggest question? What's worse, Pele's acting or Sylvester Stallone's goalkeeping? GET IN TOUCH TWITTER - @fos_pod EMAIL - fieldofscreenspod@gmail.com

This week James and dKiff take a look at that all-time Christmas classic Rocky IV. Because who doesn't fight at Christmas? Rocky is plunged into a pit of despair after the death of his close friend Apollo Creed at the hands of fierce Russian invader, Ivan Drago. How else could he make things right than by facing the Russian on his own turf in the icy Soviet Union. Can Rocky defeat his toughest opponent, avenge his friend and potentially help end the cold war? You betcha.  ----more---- GET IN TOUCH / TWITTER - @fos_pod / EMAIL - fieldofscreenspod@gmail.com

James and dKiff take a look at the undeniable smash hit Bend it like Beckham. A movie that now 18 years after release seems both incredibly relevant and extremely dated all at the same time. But with a lot of surprisingly good football moments will this get a thumbs up or a thumbs down from the boys? GET IN TOUCH TWITTER - @fos_pod EMAIL - fieldofscreenspod@gmail.com