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Creed III has been hailed as the latest addition to the masculine melodrama cinematic genre. Photo: MGM
Creed III has been hailed as the latest addition to the masculine melodrama cinematic genre. Photo: MGM
Masculine melodrama: How the ‘male weepie’ became cinema’s go-to genre
Interest has piqued in the male counterpart of chick flicks — sports movies, war films and bromance stories