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Weekend Box Office Report: '42′ is Number One

Jacob Hall — Sun, 14 Apr 2013 18:51:01 +0000

Well, it looks like we have an answer to the question of whether or not audiences are interested in a historical, racially charged baseball movie. Brian Helgeland's '42' opened at the top of the box office this weekend, instantly breaking the record for biggest opening for a baseball movie. Sure, it's a minor record to break, but a record is a record.

New Movies: '42,' 'Scary Movie 5′

Chris Chaberski — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 19:19:29 +0000

New in theaters this week: a biography of a groundbreaking baseball player, and the latest installment in a popular, long-running horror-movie-parody series. ’42′ The story of how Jackie Robinson broke baseball’s color barrier in 1947, encountering vicious bouts of racism across the country while playing well enough to earn Rookie of the Year honors. Directed [...]

'42′ Review

Matt Singer — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 18:23:29 +0000

My grandmother, Rhoda Singer, died earlier this year. She lived much of her life in Brooklyn and was a Brooklyn Dodgers fan. Her favorite player was Pee Wee Reese, the Dodgers' scrappy white shortstop who famously silenced a racist Cincinnati crowd by putting his arm around his black teammate Jackie Robinson during pre-game warmups.

I thought about my grandmother a lot while watching '42,' the new biopic of Jackie Robinson and his quest to break the color barrier in baseball. On an intellectual level, I can tell you a dozen things wrong with the movie, from its excessively preachy dialogue to its bloated length. But on an emotional level, I have to admit that this movie bypassed my brain and grabbed my heart, pulling each and every string contained therein firmly and repeatedly. It's a pretty good tribute to a great man. And when Pee-Wee and Jackie embraced on that field in Cincinnati I cried.

Check Out the Trailer for the New Jackie Robinson Film, '42′

Amanda Rykoff — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 13:59:33 +0000

Spring training is in full swing, Team USA is contending for the World Baseball Classic title and Opening Day is less than18 days away (but who’s counting?). We’re also less than a month from another major baseball milestone -- the release of “42,” the highly anticipated film about Jackie Robinson and his struggle to break Major League Baseball’s infamous color line.