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Review: Sydney Sweeney Transforms to Play a Groundbreaking Boxer in Tragic Yet Triumphant Biopic Christy

Less a pure boxing film and more a tragic biopic with a hopeful ending, Christy chronicles the story of Christy Martin (Sydney Sweeney, looking almost unrecognizable in early scenes), who […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • November 7, 2025
    • Film , Film & TV , Interview

    Interview: Groundbreaking Boxer Christy Martin Discusses Biopic Christy, Casting Sydney Sweeney and Teaching Her to Bounce Pass

    Because she was born in West Virginia and was the daughter of an actual coal miner, groundbreaking boxer Christy Martin was nicknamed the “Coal Miner’s Daughter” in the early part […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • November 5, 2025
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Will Smith Stars in Emancipation, a Story of Enslavement, War, Faith and Triumph

    Set about 100 years apart, there are two films out right now built around real-life photographs of brutalized Black bodies that resulted in public outrage and instigated change in American […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • December 2, 2022
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Adam Sandler’s Genuine Love of Basketball Shines Through in Hustle

    Adam Sandler is not above surprising us every so often. He did it not too long ago in the hyper-real world of Uncut Gems, much as he pulled together a […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • June 8, 2022
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Chris Pine Gets Intense as a Mercenary Trying to Solve a Mystery in The Contractor

    Taking a crack at a bare-bones action-thriller B-movie, Chris Pine (Star Trek, Wonder Woman) plays Special Forces Sgt. James Harper in The Contractor. He finds himself in trouble with the […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • April 1, 2022
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Love, Antosha Chronicles a Life Fully Lived, Lost Too Soon

    Love, Antosha

    Twice in 2011, I was fortunate enough to have met actor Anton Yelchin, and I can vouch for the fact that he could talk your ear off about all manner […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • August 30, 2019
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