Because of the shutting down of Buzzdash, the site we normally used to host our Thursday Polls, we were unable to post the results of the poll that ran in this space two weeks ago. But if we had, we could have told you that our most recent poll commemorated the start of the Major League Baseball season, and depending on who you root for, you’re either feeling the excitement of a potentially awesome year or a certain degree of disappointment in seeing your favorite team consistently losing once the games actually count (of course, the Indians usually start slow, right? RIGHT???). But no matter how your real-life baseball team is faring right now, you can always count on a good baseball movie.

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Tonight it's your big chance to have dinner with Mike Tyson. A Q&A and dinner with the former champ will follow tonight's screening of James Toback's documentary Tyson. (Please don't ask if ears are on the menu.) The movie itself had its first screening bright and early yesterday at 8:30 am ("You people did more than I would have done, coming out at 8:30 in the morning for a movie!" Toback told the crowd.) According to the L.A. Times, "Toback filmed Tyson during a time when the former heavyweight fighter was in rehab for drug addiction and feeling contemplative about his life. Intercut with the interview are clips from Tyson's highlights and lowlights, including footage from his 1997 fight against Evander Holyfield that ended with Iron Mike chomping off part of Holyfield's ear. Yet despite this unflattering footage, the film is largely sympathetic to Tyson." Slashfilm has a problem with that: "Situations dealing with abuse and rape charges deserve to show the other side of the story (especially when Tyson claims they never happened). But the documentary never strays from the one on one interview with Tyson himself." The film has already been picked up for distribution by Sony Pictures Classics.

If you've been waiting for the mumblecore bromance version of Zack and Miri Make a Porno, it sounds like Humpday is the movie for you.

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