Movies

The why behind Moneyball as an idea more than arrogance of Moneyball the book comes through in Moneyball the movie through the somewhat fictionalized Billy Beane as portrayed by Brad Pitt. It is not a perfect baseball movie, but it is a very good baseball movie that does proper justice to the story. Moneyball has changed the game forever, and while it is not a perfect idea, it remains a compelling one, just like the movie.

Congratulations, Netflix. After 10 years of continuing to pay you while our movies went unwatched, you finally made it easy for us to save $17 a month.

Contagion reminds us that even global apocalyptic epidemics can have (sort of) happy endings, which is more than be said about the Colorado Rockies season.

IKEA is known for its economic use of space, but given the number of people employed to direct traffic into the store Saturday it might be helping a much larger economy. Also, Rockies seasons is going nowhere, but at least Dan O'Dowd understands the problem.

While the Colorado Rockies have struggled to hold the attention of us here at America's Fish beyond, that is, contemplating ways to gut and improve upon all that is wrong with the team, the Harry Potter series came to a much more satisfying conclusion than one can expect from the baseball season.