Although its trailer premiered a little over a month ago, I'm sad to say I'm only now catching up with the upcoming indie drama Perfect Sport. If its relative anonymity in the YouTube wilds is any indication, I wasn't alone in my oversight. Let's clear up this injustice right now, and, in the process, hopefully resolve an even bigger issue around the film. To wit: What the hell is this movie about?
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It doesn't take very long in today's trainwreck-hungry media environment for one surly interview to tank a movie star's career--a subsidiary, vanity career, mind you, but a career nonetheless. And in the few short days since Billy Bob Thornton delivered a barrage of impudent responses to unerringly polite CBC radio journalist Jian Ghomeshi, that's exactly what happened. The showdown, if you've not yet seen it, is highly entertaining--one yeshiva beard short of blogger nirvana, really--and occurred Wednesday, when Thornton was in Toronto with his band the Boxmasters to open for Willie Nelson.
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Every once in a generation comes a trailer so sublimely nonsensical, so unfathomably awful, it's as if God Himself lowered a divine finger to scrawl "WTF?" across its title card in cursive.
And so it was written, and so it shall be, that After Last Season was that trailer.
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