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 ...

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.

"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 ...

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 ...