'Express' continues sports bio/civil rights theme

Clancy Brown; Charles S. Dutton; Rob Brown; Omar Benson Miller; Dennis Quaid = Buy movie tickets online Check theaters for showtimes By Gary Thompson Philadelphia Daily News Daily News Film Critic "The Express" is a trip down "Glory Road," and these days, that's not exactly the road less traveled. The inspirational sports biography has become a Hollywood staple, and it's a minor miracle that sports movies with a civil rights angle now constitute their own genre. Still, saying these movies are everywhere is not the same as saying they're cliches - resonant details on top of a sturdy formula is a reliable recipe for decent entertainment, and "The Express" meets that standard. It's the fact-based story of Ernie Davis, a kid from Pennsylvania coal country who became a high-school star in Elmira, N.Y., and one of the first... [read full story]