Year: 2026
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‘Little Angels’ (2025) is a redemption story for rich male coaches
Dean Cain’s Little Angels entertains without making any big waves. It’s heart-warming family fare, covers all the usual soccer movie bases, and it includes Brandi Chastain. And uh, Lou Ferrigno. But the story is not about the girls, it’s really about the high paid college football coach.
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‘Balls Up’ (2026), Mark Wahlburg stock Down
It takes a lot of balls to make an entire comedy about condoms designed to win the World Cup. My issue is not that the film is in poor taste — the whole story is weird and just not funny.
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Notes: Best and Worst Soccer Movies in 2025
As noted last year, after the Golden Age of Streaming, Hollywood is now in a depression. And so am I. The administration of #DasFuror has weighed me down with constant stories of corruption, cutbacks, incompetence, climate change denial, and cult of personality.
