As Depression-era sports stories go, Seabiscuit is looking better all the time. Though terminally obvious, it was at least willing to take a stand on behalf of New Deal policies. Ron Howard’s ...

21 years after he starred in the boxing movie, 'Cinderella Man', Russell Crowe is back with the MMA sports drama, 'Beast'.

As the film “The Featherweight,” about the life of boxing great Willie Pep, enters wide release, this week a different BoxingScene contributor will reflect on a boxing biopic that resonates with them.

Rohan Naahar is a Weekend News Writer for Collider. From Francois Ozon to David Fincher, he'll watch anything once. He has covered everything from Marvel to the Oscars, and Marvel at the Oscars. He ...

"Cinderella Man," the underdog drama starring Russell Crowe as a Depression-era boxer, punched through with the top honor of the Phoenix Film Critics Society's sixth annual awards, earning recognition ...

Brought out of retirement by manager Joe Gould, James J. Braddock was intended to be the fall guy, a tune-up opponent for John “Corn” Griffin before Griffin met the world heavyweight champion, Max ...

Russell Crowe has a worn-out face in Cinderella Man, as distressed and beaten about as an old leather shoe. It's a face straight from the Great Depression, from that era of soup lines and threadbare ...