How do you keep warm and entertained in the winters in the Midwest, well usually either in a Bowling Alley, Bar or a Pool Hall. Fast Eddie Felson (Paul Newman) takes Vincent Lauria (Tom Cruise) under his wing and schools him in the art of hustling in this Martin Scorsese directed movie.

How can we keep this up? Movie after movie of epic proportion, 80's nostalgia and James realising that he need to keep watching everything Joe recommends because its just making Transformers seem a bit meh in comparison. The Tom Cruise Series continues....and what a beauty this one is!

The Hosts

Joe Walker is a Sports Coach and graduate of Loughborough University, with 16 years coaching experience and a degree in Sports Coaching. His first passion has always been movies and the stories that they tell.

James Marshall is a 2x National Championship winning athlete and graduate of Loughborough University. He has a background in a variety of sports including American Football, Athletics and Swimming. He grew up with aspirations to pursue a life in Drama and Acting.

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1983 and a cold, bleak and struggling town of Ampipe plays home to Stefan Djordjevic (Tom Cruise) he has a plan to get a football scholarship and get out of town before he is swallowed up by a life in the steel mills. But can he make all the right moves in his quest for freedom, or will he fall foul of coaches, criminals and teenage pregnancy?

At Champions of Cinema we love nothing less than a movie about Football, but with our first foray into High School, is Joe too old to remember being a teenager and is James far and away from a steelworkers son? Join us as we start a new series of Tom Cruise movies!

The Hosts

Joe Walker is a Sports Coach and graduate of Loughborough University, with 16 years coaching experience and a degree in Sports Coaching. His first passion has always been movies and the stories that they tell.

James Marshall is a National Championship winning athlete and graduate of Loughborough University. He has a background in a variety of sports including American Football, Athletics and Swimming. He grew up with aspirations to pursue a life in Drama and Acting.

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Instagram - @championsofcinema

Tiktok - @champions.of.cine

Billy Beane and the Oakland Athletics are one of the cheapest teams in Baseball, with a cut price roster of misfit and broken players can they do the impossible and compete with the big boys of Baseball?

Stepping onto the mound for the first time with a Baseball movie, Joe and James flirt with pivoting the podcast into Mathematics rather than Movies, with discussions about how Billionaires save money in their sport teams and whether economics really is the future of sports.

The Hosts

Joe Walker is a Sports Coach and graduate of Loughborough University, with 16 years coaching experience and a degree in Sports Coaching. His first passion has always been movies and the stories that they tell.

James Marshall is a National Championship winning athlete and graduate of Loughborough University. He has a background in a variety of sports including American Football, Athletics and Swimming. He grew up with aspirations to pursue a life in Drama and Acting.

Contact Info

Instagram - @championsofcinema

Tiktok - @champions.of.cine