Is Raging Bull 2 getting cast? Raging Bull 2? First of all, let me clarify that this isn’t an April’s Fools joke. At least not on my part. And let…
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The Fighter movie (2010): ‘Smart’ (as in Marketable) Hollywood product with impressive Oscar winners Melissa Leo and Christian Bale.
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The Fighter movie box office: Boxing drama likely not to become another Million Dollar Baby. Mark Wahlberg and Christian Bale star.
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Clint Eastwood’s ‘inspirational’ 2009 sports drama Invictus has suffered a dispiriting debut at the domestic box office. Matt Damon stars.
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Field of Dreams Movie: Kevin Costner + Baseball, Ghosts and Corn in Sentimental Iowa Fantasy that would have been too sunny even for Frank Capra.
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Heath Ledger in The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus. One of this year’s AFI FEST offerings along with “fantasy soccer” by way of Looking for Eric, Viggo Mortensen’s dystopian reality in…
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Training Rules movie. Winner of the audience award for best documentary at the 2009 edition of San Francisco’s gay film festival, Frameline, Dee Mosbacher (right) and Fawn Yacker’s Training Rules…
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Redbelt (2008) movie review: A memorable Chiwetel Ejiofor stars in this impressive (yet commercially unsuccessful) David Mamet morality tale. Emily Mortimer and Tim Allen costar.
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The Will Ferrell basketball movie Semi-Pro was the top title on the domestic box office chart. And yet, that was at best a wobbly debut.
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The Game Plan box office: Panned Dwayne Johnson star vehicle has topped the domestic chart twice; Ben Stiller’s latest hasn’t been nearly as lucky.
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A superlative Hilary Swank can’t beat the odds against Clint Eastwood’s cliché-ridden boxing + surrogate father-daughter melo Million Dollar Baby.
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Featuring a superficial Denzel Washington as jailed U.S. boxer Rubin Carter, Norman Jewison’s contrived biopic The Hurricane is probably his worst film.
The Blind Side box office: Sandra Bullock is indeed back on top - after a mid-decade box office slump - in this huge domestic sleeper blockbuster. Tim McGraw and Quinton Aaron costar.
Leatherheads (2008) movie review: George Clooney sports comedy offers a mix of romance and sociopolitical commentary. Renée Zellweger costars.
Baseball films on DVD: From Babe Ruth to Colleen Moore Kino’s “Reel Baseball - 1899–1926” two-disc set has become one of that DVD distributor’s biggest sellers in their silent film…