It is common parlance to talk of still waters running deep. Alas, Tom McCarthy’s Stillwater is a stagnant shallow pool. McCarthy is normally such an exceptional writer, with a real ear for great dialogue (as in Spotlight), but this film is tone deaf and a huge disappointment for fans of his work.
The story is also a little tricky for McCarthy has adapted the Amanda Knox true story, transposing the action to Marseille and focussing on the father Bill Baker (Matt Damon) and his private investigation to prove his daughter’s innocence. Bill is a monosyllabic, God-fearing oil rig worker from Stillwater, Oklahoma, which is exactly as dull as its name suggests. On his trip to Marseille, he discovers that there is a man who has boasted of getting away with stabbing a girl to death. Is this the real murderer? Bill embarks on finding the perpetrator and obtaining his DNA,...
The story is also a little tricky for McCarthy has adapted the Amanda Knox true story, transposing the action to Marseille and focussing on the father Bill Baker (Matt Damon) and his private investigation to prove his daughter’s innocence. Bill is a monosyllabic, God-fearing oil rig worker from Stillwater, Oklahoma, which is exactly as dull as its name suggests. On his trip to Marseille, he discovers that there is a man who has boasted of getting away with stabbing a girl to death. Is this the real murderer? Bill embarks on finding the perpetrator and obtaining his DNA,...
- 7/13/2021
- by Jo-Ann Titmarsh
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
A few thoughts on tonight's Pitch — but really on a few problems the show could very much stand to improve — coming up just as soon as I tell you that J-Lo was one of the Fly Girls on In Living Color... For the most part, "Alfonzo Guzman-Chavez was a fun look at the trade deadline from the perspective of both management and the players. Even if the early reference to Moneyball spotlighted the fact that none of the trade discussion scenes was as entertaining as the sequence from the movie where the A's trade for Ricardo Rincon, the hour captured what a stressful time of the season this is for all involved — with Oscar getting added grief due to the arrival of a Silicon Valley bro (Kevin Connolly from Entourage, putting his inherent smarminess to good use for once) as the new head of baseball operations — and about the...
- 10/28/2016
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Hitfix
We’ve got questions, and you’ve (maybe) got answers! With another week of TV gone by, we’re lobbing queries left and right about shows including The Big Bang Theory, This Is Us, Blindspot and Grey’s Anatomy!
Videos Orphan Black Ep, Cast Talk Final Season Theme, ‘Touchy’ Clone Q
1 | We’re absolutely thrilled that Tatiana Maslany won an Emmy, but we can’t help wondering: What gave her the edge this year? Did it just take the voters four years to finally watch Orphan Black? Was it the awesomeness of Krystal?
2 | Were you aware there was an Emmy...
Videos Orphan Black Ep, Cast Talk Final Season Theme, ‘Touchy’ Clone Q
1 | We’re absolutely thrilled that Tatiana Maslany won an Emmy, but we can’t help wondering: What gave her the edge this year? Did it just take the voters four years to finally watch Orphan Black? Was it the awesomeness of Krystal?
2 | Were you aware there was an Emmy...
- 9/23/2016
- TVLine.com
Screw stealing bases! Pitch is here to steal our hearts!
With the trailblazing appeal of movies like 42 and A League of Their Own and the charm of the late, great Friday Night Lights, Pitch is the perfect blend of family drama, sports action, girl power, and wit. It's balanced enough to appeal to various demographics and well written enough to avoid being typecast.
If the quality of Pitch Season 1 Episode 1 is any indicator of what the rest of the season has in store for us then Fox may have itself a new hit!
Ginny Baker can officially join the rank of fascinating, complex, multi-layered primetime female protagonists.
She's talented, confident, driven, and witty. On the surface she appears as if she has it completely together. She damn near eats, sleeps, and breathes baseball, and has since the first time she picked one up and hurled it at her father.
Ginny: But none of that matters,...
With the trailblazing appeal of movies like 42 and A League of Their Own and the charm of the late, great Friday Night Lights, Pitch is the perfect blend of family drama, sports action, girl power, and wit. It's balanced enough to appeal to various demographics and well written enough to avoid being typecast.
If the quality of Pitch Season 1 Episode 1 is any indicator of what the rest of the season has in store for us then Fox may have itself a new hit!
Ginny Baker can officially join the rank of fascinating, complex, multi-layered primetime female protagonists.
She's talented, confident, driven, and witty. On the surface she appears as if she has it completely together. She damn near eats, sleeps, and breathes baseball, and has since the first time she picked one up and hurled it at her father.
Ginny: But none of that matters,...
- 9/23/2016
- by Jasmine Blu
- TVfanatic
I expressed most of my opinions about Fox's Pitch in this morning's piece, but there is one specific part of the pilot I didn't want to get into until after you had seen it, so spoilers (for this and for the pilot of This Is Us, which we discussed on Tuesday night) coming up just as soon as I keep the $700 million receipt... As I alluded to this morning, Dan Fogelman clearly had absent fathers on his mind this pilot season. The This Is Us pilot not only involves one of the characters tracking down the biological father who abandoned him as a baby, but reveals at the end that one of its story arcs takes place 36 years in the past, and that Milo Ventimiglia is father (presumably dead in 2016, based on the interactions of two of the siblings) to the main characters living in the present. Pitch, meanwhile, does its own head fake,...
- 9/23/2016
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Hitfix
Put her in coach, she’s ready to play… or is she?
Ginny Baker, Major League Baseball’s first female player — and the character at the center of Fox’s new drama Pitch — has been waiting her entire life for a shot at the big show. But is she successful on the mound? We’ll get to that in a moment. First, a brief recap of Thursday’s series premiere:
We meet Ginny (Twisted‘s Kylie Bunbury) on the morning of her debut as starting pitcher for the San Diego Padres. Her hotel room is full of fruit baskets from...
Ginny Baker, Major League Baseball’s first female player — and the character at the center of Fox’s new drama Pitch — has been waiting her entire life for a shot at the big show. But is she successful on the mound? We’ll get to that in a moment. First, a brief recap of Thursday’s series premiere:
We meet Ginny (Twisted‘s Kylie Bunbury) on the morning of her debut as starting pitcher for the San Diego Padres. Her hotel room is full of fruit baskets from...
- 9/23/2016
- TVLine.com
If only a show could believe in the shtick it has, and not decide that it not only needs two, but needs one to be a clever twist. Pitch has enough going on without throwing out a last-minute zinger. Worse, the show doesn’t need it, it doesn’t help anything, and it runs the risk of leaving a bad taste in your mouth. I’m tempted to tell you the point at which you should stop watching, and await the next episode.
As I said, Pitch has enough going on, and somewhat surprisingly, what with the overblown cliches that are tricky to avoid, it’s a refreshing joyride. It may seem like damning with faint praise, but the show’s best attribute is just that it adeptly dodges turning into something laughable. That isn’t because it’s doing anything wrong, but because the subject matter simply means that...
As I said, Pitch has enough going on, and somewhat surprisingly, what with the overblown cliches that are tricky to avoid, it’s a refreshing joyride. It may seem like damning with faint praise, but the show’s best attribute is just that it adeptly dodges turning into something laughable. That isn’t because it’s doing anything wrong, but because the subject matter simply means that...
- 9/22/2016
- by Marc Eastman
- AreYouScreening.com
"A girl will never be able to throw hard enough to compete with boys. It's biology and we can't change that." That's what Bill Baker (Third Watch's Michael Beach) tells his daughter Ginny (Kylie Bunbury) in a Pitch trailer exclusive to People.But worry not, Bill has a plan. "We need a secret weapon," he tells Ginny, who had dreams of becoming an all-star pitcher. "It's called a screwball." Through hard work and determination, Ginny not only impresses the men on the local baseball diamonds, she makes it all the way to the Mlb in this new Fox drama series.
- 8/16/2016
- by Patrick Gomez, @PatrickGomezLA
- PEOPLE.com
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