Boxing movies usually fixate on the glory of fight night, with courageous underdogs overcoming insurmountable odds to climb off the canvas and knock out seemingly unbeatable champions. However, while fans around the world praise the competitors for what they achieve inside the ring, there’s a battle often just as tough that transpires before the crowd ever sees the athletes make …
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Let the haunting begin. Jolting the sleepy box office back to life as fall gets underway, New Line’s The Conjuring: Last Rites scared up a franchise-best $8.5 million in Thursday previews in yet another win for the Warner Bros. film empire. That’s also the biggest franchise gross of the year to date for a horror film after passing up the …
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Benny Safdie’s The Smashing Machine, starring Dwayne Johnson as legendary mixed martial arts and UFC fighter Mark Kerr, delivered a knockout punch Monday at the Venice Film Festival. The A24 film had its world premiere Monday night inside Sala Grande and the audience went wild, responding with a 15-minute standing ovation. It proved to be a special night for Johnson …
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Barcelona dropped points for the first time this season and will go into the first international break in fourth place in the La Liga table thanks to a 1-1 draw away to Rayo Vallecano on Sunday, and Hansi Flick was not happy with what he saw from his team. The Catalans were involved in a chaotic match with tons of …
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The coronation of Arch Manning atop college football was cancelled in Week 1, and ESPN’s Paul Finebaum isn’t shy about calling out college football’s potential golden boy. After a pre-season love fest for No. 1 Texas and Manning, who Finebaum himself had labeled a Heisman Trophy favorite and a potential Tim Tebow successor, Ohio State flipped that script in the …
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Darren Till badly beat up Luke Rockhold in their highly anticipated boxing match between former UFC fighters. In the main event of Misfits Boxing 22 on Saturday, Till knocked Rockhold down several times in the first couple of rounds before brutally knocking Rockhold unconscious in the third round to improve to 3-o in the promotion. Check out the finish below. …
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If you just look at the Pixel 10’s physical design, you’re going to be disappointed. Google’s new $800 Android smartphone looks almost identical to last year’s Pixel 9, save for an additional 5x telephoto camera lens and some new colors, including the makes-me-smile Indigo blue. But like most new phones, there are a bunch of small upgrades internally that add …
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Add Tom Watson to the list of former Ryder Cup captains who believe the dual role of player and captain is just too much for one person to shoulder. Keegan Bradley seems all but set to name himself the first player-captain for an American Ryder Cup team since Arnold Palmer did so in 1963. The possible decision has drawn concern …
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While the months-long tabloid coverage of its stars apparently paid off for the romantic comedy Anyone But You, which emerged as a runaway hit at the end of 2023 and grossed over $200 million worldwide, similar online attention doesn’t seem to have worked in Sydney Sweeney’s favor this time around. The young star headlined the Quentin Tarantino-inspired Western Americana last …
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Hansi Flick was “proud” of his Barcelona team after their dramatic 3-2 comeback win away to Levante to win their second straight La Liga match to begin the season. After a tough first half the Catalans played much better in the final period, and found a late winner thanks to an own goal by Unai Elgezabal to steal all three …
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