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Becoming a champion boxer takes years of hard work, dedication and sacrifice. For Jake Gyllenhaal, playing a winning fighter took all that, but compressed into just five grueling months. Gyllenhaal ...

Boxing movies have recognizable characteristics that are usually integral to their story. They stick to what works best by following a flawed protagonist who has to fight inside and outside the ring ...

Boxing drama “Southpaw” doesn’t spare the pain. Physical pain, frequent and stinging, is all over the screen, especially on actor Jake Gyllenhaal’s bloody face. A flood of emotional pain appears, too, ...

In the movie “Southpaw,” which is opening Friday, Jake Gyllenhaal plays a tough-as-nails former boxing champ who uses the unorthodox “southpaw” stance favored by left-handed boxers. Conventional ...

Jake Gyllenhaal's impressive physical transformation from scrawny media parasite in "Nightcrawler" to pro boxer in "Southpaw" has snagged most of the movie's pre-release hubbub - partly because, well, ...

To play a boxing star in “Southpaw,” Jake Gyllenhaal had to transform himself into a bulked-up bruiser who could convincingly go twelve rounds with the fiercest and meanest guys in the ring.

We're far enough into the year to be able to say that "Southpaw" is one of the great films of 2015. It's a boxing movie that hits most of the stations of the boxing genre - the cruelty of the business ...

As the tragedy-stricken pugilist Billy “The Great” Hope, Jake Gyllenhaal takes his lumps both in and out of the ring in director Antoine Fuqua’s new redemption drama “Southpaw.” But while the ...

Despite the hype surrounding Southpaw, due in part to Gyllenhaal’s latest physical transformation, critics are only giving it a half-hearted stamp of approval. Though Gyllenhaal throws himself into ...

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