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Any Given Sunday Lends Its Inches to the Cinephile Hissy Fit

(L-R) Jamie Foxx and Al Pacino in Any Given Sunday. Image courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures.

The hosts of the Cinephile Hissy Fit have come to admire the work of Oliver Stone. Say what you will about the odd projects, frenetic stylings, and preachy stumps that often come out of his films, the filmmaker knows how to turn heads and elicit reactions. While it looked overlong and downright hyper at the time, Stone’s football epic Any Given Sunday, starring Al Pacino, Jamie Foxx, and a cast of thousands, proved to be more prophetic that we gave it credit for 27 years ago as it skewered the haphazard NFL at the time.

The cover photo of the Cinephile Hissy Fit podcast episode for Sinners

For their 227th episode, two third-string critics, two painkiller-addicted dads, and two steamin’ teachers, Will Johnson and Don Shanahan, arrive a few weeks after Super Bowl LX with one more football classic from a generation ago. As the complete opposite to the wholesome Remember the Titans from a recent episode, our hosts cover Oliver Stone’s 1999 cinematic energy drink, Any Given Sunday. They try to comprehend the amount of cocaine and creativity it took to make every aspect of that wild movie that turned out to be prophetic and ahead of its time. Come learn more and stay for the mutual love and respect that fun movies encapsulate. Enjoy our podcast!

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Written by Don Shanahan

DON SHANAHAN is a Chicago-based Rotten Tomatoes-approved film critic writing here on Film Obsessive as the Editor-in-Chief and Content Supervisor for the film department. He also writes for his own website, Every Movie Has a Lesson. Don is one of the hosts of the Cinephile Hissy Fit Podcast on the Ruminations Radio Network and sponsored by Film Obsessive. As a school teacher by day, Don writes his movie reviews with life lessons in mind, from the serious to the farcical. He is a proud director and one of the founders of the Chicago Indie Critics and a voting member of the nationally-recognized Critics Choice Association, Hollywood Creative Alliance, Online Film Critics Society, North American Film Critics Association, International Film Society Critics Association, Internet Film Critics Society, Online Film and TV Association, and the Celebrity Movie Awards.

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