Air

This is the true story of how the Air Jordan Nike basketball shoe became to be. If you were wondering how this could possibly be a movie, let alone a good one, a riveting one, well you're not alone. Even after watching the trailer, I thought, "I don't know about this." There is a nostalgia factor here at play for people my age or older. The mid 1980s, for the Gen-X crowd, well that's our youth, so to go back there, this is part of the charm of "Air." Every since "Stranger Things" came out, the flood of nostalgic 80s films and TV has developed into its own pipeline of material. "Tetris" currently streaming on Apple+ is another example. What makes "Air" so good are the performances of  Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Jason Bateman, Chris Messina, Viola Davis, and Chris Tucker. Everyone here is fabulous. And Ben Affleck does more than just a competent job at directing, he's good. I think we could lump this film into the docudrama category of great films such as "Moneyball," "The Big Short," "Hoosiers," and "The Social Network;" these are big films to compare to - if the shoe fits. Catch this slam dunk at theatres near you.