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How to Watch A League of Their Own: Where to Stream the Baseball Series
Put on your baseball caps and prepare for the new Rockford Peaches to hit a home run in the TV adaptation of A League of Their Own. Based on the iconic 1992 film by Penny Marshall, the series follows the players in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, as well as those who didn’t make […]
Continue readingHow Amazon’s ‘League of Their Own’ Ball Players Compare to the 1992 Movie Lineup
“Broad City” co-creator Abbi Jacobson and “Mozart in the Jungle” executive producer Will Graham give “A League of Their Own” a modern makeover for the upcoming Amazon Prime Video series, emphasizing LGBT storylines and the struggles of Black female athletes to play baseball during the World War II era. The show, which debuted this weekend, […]
Continue reading‘A League of Their Own’ Review: Abbi Jacobson’s Prime Video Reboot Is an Off-speed Pitch Worth Waiting For
When Brad Pitt, as Oakland A’s general manager Billy Beane in the 2011 modern classic “Moneyball,” rhetorically asked, “How can you not be romantic about baseball,” he wasn’t talking about the inevitability of love and sports colliding. “Bull Durham” this was not. What Billy was referring to (via Aaron Sorkin and Steven Zaillian’s script) was […]
Continue readingHow A League Of Their Own Changed Geena Davis Life
Penny Marshall’s 1992 sports dramedy “A League of Their Own” was beloved from the jump. Set largely in the 1940s, “A League of Their Own” tells a fictionalized version of the founding of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, and that league’s most successful team, the Rockford Peaches. (Note that this was a time when […]
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Why Columbia Scrapped A Tom Hanks Prequel To A League Of Their Own
With its gumption, charm, and an empowering story, 1992’s “A League of Their Own” is one of the most lovable sports movies ever made. The Penny Marshall-directed comedic drama stars Geena Davis and Lori Petty as two sisters who make it big in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League in the 1940s. Along the way, […]
Continue readingWhy Geena Davis Gave Her Blessing To Amazon’s A League Of Their Own
Penny Marshall’s 1992 feminist baseball drama “A League of Their Own” is a classic, the kind of movie that uses a very specific experience to tell a universal story. The movie follows the Rockford Peaches, a women’s baseball team formed during World War II while all of the men were away fighting. The movie is beloved by […]
Continue reading‘A League of Their Own’ Trailer: Abbi Jacobson and D’Arcy Carden Join All-Women WWII Baseball Team
Not everything is going just peachy when it comes to the Rockford Peaches.Based on the true story and inspired by Penny Marshall’s hit 1992 film of the same name, Amazon Prime Video’s “A League of Their Own” captures the all-women baseball league during WWII. “Broad City” showrunner Abbi Jacobson co-created, stars, and executive produces the […]
Continue readingTom Hanks’ 10 Best Roles Ranked, from ‘Cast Away’ to ‘Saving Private Ryan’
Take a gander at the last 40 years of cinema, and you’ll find at least one universal truth: The people love Tom Hanks. The 66-year-old actor is known around Hollywood and the world as an affable everyman, with as much capacity for heady drama as a knack for quippy comedy. Hanks’ most famous roles range […]
Continue reading‘A League of Their Own’ Screenwriter Says Studio Scrapped Prequel Because ‘The Girls’ Weren’t in It
Fans of “A League of Their Own” have a new Amazon Prime Video series to look forward to, but if things had gone just a bit differently, there could have been a second movie as well. In a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter to commemorate the film’s 30th anniversary, the film’s screenwriter Lowell Ganz […]
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