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Remember the Titans Sweetens the Football Season for the Cinephile Hissy Fit

(L-R) Will Patton and Denzel Washington in Remember the Titans. Image: Walt Disney Pictures.

The excitement of the 2025-2026 NFL season has not been lost on the hosts of the Cinephile Hissy Fit podcast. While Will Johnson’s beloved Tampa Bay Buccaneers imploded late in the year and missed the playoffs, Don Shanahan’s Chicago Bears enjoyed a miracle run into the playoffs marked by surprising resurgence and late game heroics. All of that entertainment on the field reminded our hosts that Hollywood used to make proper inspirational sports movies. One of the most perfect examples of that old formula was 2000’s Remember the Titans.

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

For their 225th episode, two strong side critics, two weak side dads, and two coaching teachers, Will Johnson and Don Shanahan, embraced the excitement of football season—culiminating with the landmark Super Bowl 60 today—for a classic entry of the proper sports film genre that studios have stopped making on the regular. Originating from the Disney’s production house and the power of Jerry Bruckheimer, Remember the Titans, stars Oscar winner Denzel Washington in a story pulled and sweetened from the history books. Our hosts sat down on their John Brown hindparts to tell you all about it and it’s high worth for athletes and viewers young and old. 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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