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Movie snobs may look down their noses at the good old-fashioned action thriller, but there is nothing better for a Friday or Saturday night at the cinema than a gripping thriller with plenty of exciting scenes. Mark Wahlberg’s new film “Contraband” is ideal for a weekend trip to the cinema. Packed with crooks, guns, car chases, [...]  Actor Mark Wahlberg who started in the movie, The Fighter, with Amy Adams, Melissa Leo and Christian Bale and cannot imagine not filming a sequel of his role as Micky Ward, the frustrated boxer that turned pro in the 1980’s after training with his brother. The movie received seven academy award nominations and David O. Russell [...] Boxing movies have become impossible to make in a way that delivers fresh content. The Fighter certainly fails in this way as well. It is based on a true story, but the plot is painfully familiar. Even so, David Russell delivers a respectable drama within the confines of this static genre. ‘Irish’ Micky Ward, played by [...] In “The Fighter,” Mark Wahlberg portrays real life scrapper “Irish” Micky Ward who was a fighter in the early 1990s in the welterweight division. Micky is the half brother of Dicky Eklund, played by Christian Bale, who had some real success boxing. In fact, Eklund is considered the “Pride of Lowell Massachusetts” because he once knocked [...] |
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