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I recently read somewhere that there has been a movie about boxing released every year since Rocky in 1976. After thirty-four years, you could be forgiven for asking whether or not there's really a story left to be told in what has essentially become a genre unto itself. The latest ...

 The Fighter, is an inspiring true story about boxing brother Mickey and Dickey Ward. I had heard such great things about this movie and unlike Black Swan, a boxing movie is right up my alley, but i must say i was a bit disappointed. Let me be clear the movie ...

The Fighter is a movie that works, and it works not because it's a movie about a boxer, but because it's a movie about a family. And what a family it is. David O. Russell, the director behind I Heart Huckabees, has managed to make The Fighter something more than ...

After watching the trailer and hearing about it, seeing the film came with great surprise. Probably the best boxing film I've seen yet, and it's really not about boxing as a sport as much it is about fighting as a human being. Family, drugs and love is treated very well ...

In 2008, director Darren Aronofsky released The Wrestler, a quiet, poetic drama that examined an aging wrestler coping with breakdown, erosion, and an ultimate redemption that could either end up ruining or liberating him. That film starred Mickey Rourke in one of the greatest acting feats in all of movie ...

I sort of have issues with both of this film's Oscar wins for supporting performances. In Christian Bale's case it's because I don't think he really has a supporting role, and in Melissa Leo's case it's because I don't think she's even the best supporting actress in the movie. Leo ...

 David O Russell has always been well a controversial director; his antics both on set and off have often made many question why he is given such lucrative and creative projects. However time and again O Russell shows that while he may be out of his mind, he is a ...

  OK, I almost docked this a star for its stock storyline and bad line-readings by certain actors at certain important parts of the movie... but instead I gave it an extra half star for technique and one for Bale/Leo/the sisters, who all made it well worth the ticket price. ...

  The boxing subgenre of sports films is a difficult one to break into, especially today, where films have to live up to the stellar reputations of films like Raging Bull, Million Dollar Baby, Cinerella Man, and of course, Rocky. Not only that, but it's pretty much a necessity these ...

Welcome to "The Christian Bale Show"...I hope you enjoy your stay.If there's ever been a film that Christian Bale has starred in, that he deserves any kind of award for, it's "The Fighter".  His performance is so believable, so undeniably transformed into the character he is portraying, I doubt you ...