Battle Of The Sexes Has Its Trite Traits But Its Humanization Of Billie Jean King Saves The Whole Movie

For Billie Jean King (Emma Stone), there are more difficulties in playing professional tennis than worrying about potential injuries or missed balls on the court. As a woman, she's constantly putting up with double standards stemming solely from her gender and when her requests for payment equal to the payment male athletes receive, she decides to start up her own female-oriented tennis organization, one that's scrappy for sure, but full of grit and determination. They've got a cigarette sponsorship and numerous players, plus a hairdresser, Marilyn Barnett (Andrea Riseborough), with whom Billie Jean King begins to develop a romantic relationship with.

Independence Day: Resurgence Is A Repugnant Fusion Of Noise And Tedium

Sometimes you leave a summer blockbuster feeling elated, the imagery and characters on-screen having just about made one's day. Other times you leave with mixed emotions", not having despised what occurred but also certainly not enjoyed it. And then there's how I felt about upon leaving Independence Day: Resurgence, a movie that left me only feeling aggravation. By the end, of the motion picture, I felt a great kinship with The Grinch since  all of the chaos on-screen only registered to me as "NOISE! ALL THE NOISE NOISE NOISE!"

The Equalizer Review

There was this brief trend in the first few years of the 21st century of revamping old TV shows for modern day films. Charlie's Angels started this phenomenon, and the likes of Starsky & Hutch, Miami Vice and The Dukes of Hazzard kept it going. It's slowed down in recent years, but the likes of Dark Shadows and 21 Jump Street show that Hollywood loves taking classic programs and revamping them as new movies. The Equalizer is the newest film adhering to this thought process, though even without watching any of the show, a quick glance to the original shows Wikipedia page confirms that this is less of an adaptation of that 80's TV show and more of a cinematic excuse for Denzel Washington to punch people.