Forget the snobs, to dismiss one sport as worthless is to dismiss them all

For Irish followers, American football fandom ranks near the summit for sports most likely to provoke derision from the non-inclined

MAGICIAN: Patrick Mahomes of the Kansas City Chiefs looks to pass against the Jacksonville Jaguars last weekend. Picture: David Eulitt/Getty Images

You know a film is rewatchable when the film podcast of the same name, The Rewatchables, dedicates three separate episodes to it. Almost three decades later, Heat still holds up as a crime drama masterpiece. A beat-for-beat thrill. Last year we were afforded a welcomed opportunity to dive back into the land of Neil McAuley and Vincent Hanna.

Bear with us. In the latest fundamentally bizarre twist, director Michael Mann teamed up with Meg Gardiner to revisit his magnum opus and tap into a prized well once more. Finally, a sequel. Strangely, it was a literary sequel. It sounded convoluted. A novel? Really? More concerningly, it threatened to exploit the escapism offered by this first-class heist movie and make it cheap.