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Posts Tagged "boxing movie"
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The Champ *** (1931, Wallace Beery, Jackie Cooper, Irene Rich, Roscoe Ates) – Classic Movie Review 8640
Wallace Beery won a Best Actor in a Leading Role Oscar (shared with Fredric March in Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde) and Frances Marion won for Best Original Story for director King Vidor’s 1931 tearjerker […]
The Champ ** (1979, Jon Voight, Faye Dunaway, Ricky Schroder) – Classic Movie Review 8639
Director Franco Zeffirelli’s 1979 love-triangle boxing movie tearjerker The Champ is a soggy remake of the 1931 Wallace Beery-Jackie Cooper weepie The Champ, hopelessly out of its time five decades later, with Jon Voight out […]
Rocky III *** (1982, Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young, Burgess Meredith, Carl Weathers, Hulk Hogan, Tony Burton, Mr T) – Classic Movie Review 7,829
The 1982 boxing movie sequel Rocky III provides yet another fistful of dollars for Sylvester Stallone as Rocky Balboa, who turns to his old adversary Apollo Creed (Carl Weathers) to help him train to fight vicious Clubber Lang (Mr […]
Creed II *** (2018, Michael B Jordan, Sylvester Stallone, Tessa Thompson, Phylicia Rashad, Dolph Lundgren, Florian Munteanu) – Movie Review
After 42 years, Creed II is the eighth film in the incredibly long-running Rocky franchise and the second focused on Apollo Creed’s son Adonis Creed (Michael B Jordan). Well that is a milestone and possibly some kind of […]
Play It to the Bone *** (1999, Woody Harrelson, Antonio Banderas, Lolita Davidovich) – Classic Movie Review 7794
Writer-director Ron Shelton’s 1999 boxing movie Play It to the Bone is a quite hard-hitting drama about best friends Cesar Dominguez (Antonio Banderas) and Vince Boudreau (Woody Harrelson), washed-up middleweight boxers who dream of one […]
Hard Times [The Streetfighter] **** (1975, Charles Bronson, James Coburn, Jill Ireland, Strother Martin) – Classic Movie Review 6036
Director Walter Hill’s distinguished 1975 action movie is one of Charles Bronson’s best films. Bronson stars in a tailor-made, ideal role as the strong, silent type Chaney, a drifter turned bare-knuckle boxer slugging his way […]
Jawbone *** (2017, Johnny Harris, Ray Winstone, Ian McShane, Michael Smiley) – Movie Review
Johnny Harris stars as former junior ABA boxing champion Jimmy McCabe who hits rock bottom, in director Thomas Napper’s likeable 2017 Brit boxing drama that isn’t afraid to revisit some ancient clichés and still win on points […]