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The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki [Hymyilevä mies] **** (2016, Jarkko Lahti, Oona Airola, Eero Milonoff) – Movie Review
I never thought I’d say this about a boxing movie – it is sweet! But the this isn’t your usual boxing movie. It’s really a romance, and certainly a fine romance. Jarkko Lahti stars as […]
Golden Boy ***** (1939, Barbara Stanwyck, William Holden, Adolphe Menjou, Joseph Calleia, Lee J Cobb, Sam Levene) – Classic Movie Review 5201
In 1939 director Rouben Mamoulian films Clifford Odets’s classic theatre play Golden Boy (with Luther Adler starring on stage) and it becomes a star-making tour de force for William Holden as a prizefighter Joe Bonaparte, […]
Broken Blossoms **** (1919, Lillian Gish, Donald Crisp, Richard Barthelmess) – Classic Movie Review 5075
Writer-producer-director D W Griffith’s simple and affecting 1919 silent movie love story is lit up with one of the great Lillian Gish’s most notable performances as Lucy Burrows, a London Limehouse girl who flees from […]
Ali **** (2001, Will Smith, Jamie Foxx, Jon Voight, Jada Pinkett-Smith, Mario van Peebles, Ron Silver, Jeffrey Wright) – Classic Movie Review 4619
Best Actor Oscar-nominated Will Smith gives a knockout turn as legendary fighter Cassius Clay / Muhammad Ali in co-writer/ director Michael Mann’s punchy, imaginative, and intelligent 2001 epic biopic of the world’s best-known and best-loved boxer. […]
The Fighter ***½ (2010, Mark Wahlberg, Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Melissa Yeo) – Classic Movie Review 4617
Boxing movies are a dime a dozen – and there have of course been great ones, from Champion and Rocky to Raging Bull and more recently Ali, Million Dollar Baby and Cinderella Man. Director David O […]
First Kid *** (1996, Sinbad, Brock Pierce, James Naughton, Lisa Eichhorn, Zachery Ty Bryan, Erin Williby, Blake Boyd) – Classic Movie Review 4548
Director David M Evans’s laid-back, entertaining 1996 Disney comedy stars Sinbad, who is amusing as ex-boxer Sam Simms, the agent in charge of Luke Davenport (Brock Pierce), the difficult, troublesome, 13-year-old son of the US […]
Bleed for This *** (2016, Miles Teller, Aaron Eckhart, Ciarán Hinds, Katey Sagal, Ted Levine) – Movie Review
Three splendid performances from Miles Teller, Aaron Eckhart and Ciarán Hinds as a real-life boxer, his coach and his dad, are the making of this otherwise just par-for-the-course inspirational boxing drama. Slightly oddly cast Teller is first […]