Movie Diary 9/13/2011

Moneyball (Bennett Miller, 2011). Not a whole lot of actual baseball in the picture, which I suppose fits the theme. Good part for Pitt. Aaron Sorkin co-wrote it, and the psychological arc looks a lot like the one in The Social Network, which is to say, intelligent and tidy. (full review 9/23)

At What a Feeling!, a week of 1980s Best Picture Oscar champs. Today: 1983 winner Terms of Endearment, a movie whose success I did not see coming at all.