Category Archives: Gary Fleder

Homefront (2013)

Homefront is not a movie I would normally watch (let alone review), but it had been in my Netflix queue for quite some time. February and March are usually the months where I watch some of my more mindless movies. That’s not to say before I even begin reviewing that this was a poorly made movie or one that you shouldn’t watch. It just means that this is a movie that you watch purely for entertainment purposes, and its storyline does not require a lot of thought or concentration. Also, I have over 400 movies reviewed at the time of this writing, yet I still have not reviewed a Jason Statham (The Mechanic, The Transformer) movie. That has mostly to do with the fact that I don’t watch a lot of Statham movies. I actually kind of like him as an action star, but my movie watching these days tends to take me away from The Mechanic, The Transformer, The Expendables, and The Fast and the Furious franchises. Although, based on their box office numbers, there is definitely an audience for Statham-type movies. But, now in my early 40’s, I find myself drawn more to movies as an art form rather than I do for pure entertainment purposes. And I almost laugh at this, considering the movies that I watched 15 years ago compared to the movies I watch today.
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The Express (2008)

the express movie posterIn the mold of Rudy, Remember The Titans, Friday Night Lights, and Brian’s Song comes Gary Fleder’s 2008 The Express starring Rob Brown as Ernie Davis, a Syracuse football running back from the early 1960s, and Dennis Quiad as Ben Schwartzwalder, Ernie’s college football coach. Ernie Davis became the first black athlete ever to win the Heisman Trophy. That is a considerable feat, but some people do not know that Davis succeeded Jim Brown at Syracuse University. Jim Brown is arguably the greatest football player and US athlete ever.

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