Streaming On The Small Screen

42

Before Chadwick Boseman played the Marvel superhero Black Panther, he played the real-life hero Jackie Robinson, who in 1947 played his first game with the Brooklyn Dodgers, becoming the first black man in the major leagues. Although 42 is as straightforward a biopic as they come, Boseman’s performance is phenomenal and Harrison Ford, who plays the Dodgers’ gruff executive, Branch Rickey, seems to relish the role of curmudgeonly good guy. And who ...