There’s no crying in baseball, as the original movie classically said, but all the hardships that women endure, now and then, sexism, misogyny, racism, and bias you can think of are on display in the new trailer for Prime Video’s “A League Of Their Own.” Yes, it’s a reboot, a reimagining of the original in series form—Hollywood would never let a good intellectual property lay dormant these days.  But it’s not as cynical as you might think and comes with a good pedigree, co-created and executive produced by Will Graham and Abbi Jacobson (co-creator and star of the beloved “Broad City”).

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It comes in just under the buzzer, but Denzel Washington’s latest directorial effort, “A Journal for Jordan,” has to be one of the strangest movies of 2021. Not because it’s so maudlin or rinky-dink, but because it marks his follow-up to the immense passion he poured into adapting August Wilson’s “Fences” back in 2016. Washington treats this movie with the same passion as a corporate gig, actualizing a romance about a soldier and a woman with a stunning visual flatness.

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