A Look at the Coming of Age Film Genre — For July, the CineNation Podcast will be diving into the genre of Coming of Age Movies. Check out our latest episode where we establish the genre’s tropes and history. From James Dean in Rebel Without a Cause to Hailee Steinfeld in The Edge of Seventeen, we discuss how the Coming…

Listen as Brandon and Thomas dive into the Texas Movie genre. — Very few states in America are as cinematic as the Lone Star State. For decades, stories have been pouring out of Texas, all dealing with a variety of issues and characters. From the early John Wayne Westerns to the character dramas of Richard Linklater, Texas has been a wide landscape…

Listen as Brandon and Thomas discuss one of the most popular sports films of the 1990s. — As the world was at war for the second time within twenty-five years, there was a worry in American sports that men’s baseball would be affected. Even though many of the pro baseball teams stocked their team with lifetime minor league players, retired players, and talented high schoolers, owners feared…

Listen as Thomas and Brandon discuss this underrated sports film from 1994. — During the 1980s, screenwriter Ron Shelton was shopping around his newly written basketball screenplay around Hollywood, but no one would bite. Shelton’s story followed a basketball coach, Pete Bell, after suffering the first losing season of his career, and his attempt to bring his program back to prominence by any…

Listen as Brandon and Thomas take a look back at Peter Berg’s film adaptation — During the 1988 high school football season, author H.G. Bissinger traveled to Odessa, Texas to write a book on the importance of high school football in American society. Bissinger decided to write about the Permian High School Panthers, a prestigious high school football program that had already won two Texas…

Listen as Brandon and Thomas take a look back at Ron Shelton’s comedy classic — Before 1988, baseball films were few and far between. Besides Barry Levinson’s The Natural and Hal Ashby’s The Slugger’s Wife, major studios were not looking at baseball stories to fill their lineup of upcoming films. They were not profitable. At least, that’s what writer/director Ron Shelton was told as he…

Listen as Brandon Sparks and Thomas Horton discuss the genre. — Do you have faith? Brandon Sparks and Thomas Horton sit down in an attempt to carve out a subgenre of movies about faith. They want to give you an alternative to the “faith-based” genre that has gained popularity over the past decade. Subscribe: Apple Podcasts / Spotify / RSS

In honor of the recent release of Chan’s new film “The Foreigner”, some of our writers picked their favorite stunts by Master Chan. — Ever since Jackie Chan came on the scene in the late 1970s, he has been able to become one of the biggest international stars of all time. From films like The Drunken Master, Police Story, and the Rush Hour series, Chan has been able to entertain audiences for decades. One…

In honor of the upcoming release of “Marshall”, the writers of CineNation picked some of their favorite courtroom dramas that you should watch. — For over two decades, courtroom dramas have been a mainstay on television. From Dick Wolf’s Law and Order franchise to Ryan Murphy’s recent hit miniseries The People vs. O.J. Simpson, courtroom dramas have been a favorite of television audiences. Nowadays, however, we don’t see that many courtroom dramas receive the…