Jackie Robinson was more than a legend in the game of baseball. He was a symbol of change, acceptance and tolerance. The first player to officially cross the color barrier in Major League Baseball, Jackie Robinson won the National League Rookie of the Year award. But it was never that easy for Robinson.
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Sam Raimi’s 1981 horror flick, “The Evil Dead”, is a wildly entertaining cult classic that has slowly crept into the mainstream radar. It was only a matter of time before it got the remake treatment. This is both an exciting and scary proposal for fans of the original series, which spawned two sequels. Despite being unable to avoid some stereotypical pit falls of the genre, remake writer and director delivers an “Evil Dead” that is head and shoulders better than any horror movie in recent years.
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“G.I. Joe: Retaliation” should have been released last July but apparently some early test audiences weren’t too thrilled with the lack of screen time for the hero of the first film, Channing Tatum. So Paramount delayed the release, deciding to give the film a 3D conversion and flesh out some more scenes between Tatum and the film’s new star, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson.
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