She’s a knockout. Sydney Sweeney and Christy Martin have joined each other in the ring once more for the newest issue of Sports Illustrated. The pair, who are hot on the heels of their sports drama biopic’s release last month, graced the magazine’s December cover on Tuesday to discuss their time behind the scenes preparing … Read more
movie review CHRISTY Running time: 135 minutes. In theaters Nov. 7. TORONTO — A boxing movie has finally yanked Sydney Sweeney out of her restrictive Hollywood box. She takes a big swing in “Christy,” the biopic of the “Coal Miner’s Daughter” fighter Christy Martin that had its world premiere Friday at the Toronto International Film Festival. Instantly, … Read more
In “Grand Tour,” a lush, melancholy story of yearning, a man treks across Asia in flight from his fiancée. But this one-sentence plotline barely scratches the surface of the Portuguese director Miguel Gomes’s magnificent black-and-white film, which mixes mannered studio footage with fluid documentary images to build a world that doesn’t abide by traditional rules … Read more
Aubrey Plaza probably wasn’t expecting to leave the 2024 WNBA All-Star weekend with a serious knee injury. The 40-year-old actress was shown during Saturday’s ABC broadcast of the WNBA All-Star game with crutches and a huge ice wrap on her right knee while sitting courtside next to Sue Bird and Megan Rapinoe, and play-by-player Ryan … Read more
“Rocky” is one of the only decades-old film franchises out there to which I say: Keep making more, please. The pulse-pounding “Creed III” is the ninth movie in the series. And although there is nary a mention of Sylvester Stallone’s Rocky Balboa in this one, the indomitable spirit, grit and heart that made the 1976 … Read more