The Calamari Wrestler (2004)
Kanichi Iwata is a wrestler who is suffering from a disease that turns him into a giant squid. Interestingly enough, he’s played by Osamu Nishimura, a wrestler who had already survived cancer. I’m a big fan of Nishimura, who is a proponent of the MUGA style of pro wrestling. This term translates into Selflessness and […]
Wrestling Queen (1973)
Wrestling Queen is less about Vivian Vachon, the titular rassling royalty, than it is about early 1970’s pro wrestling. This movie near-instantly puts a lie to the rewritten Vince McMahon Jr. history of wrestling that big crowds and families didn’t attend wrestling shows until the rock and wrestling connection of the early 80’s. Vivian comes from […]
Darkness Reigns (2020)
Dario Argento’s Demons meets The Blair Witch Project as the movie about a real life haunted hotel (ala The Overlook Hotel from The Shining) turns into a “real movie” via its behind-the-scenes documentary footage. As Darkness Reigns unfolds, we meet documentary filmmaker Daniel Whitaker (filming himself via smartphone, of course) on the way to host […]
Jurassic Dead (2017)
Back in March, we covered Jurassic Thunder, another film that was directed by Milko Davis and Thomas Martwick. They also made Tsunambee, which we covered earlier this week. Obviously, we’re going to watch every movie that these guys put out. Dr. Wojick Borge has had enough of being made fun of. So he signs up with […]
CarousHELL (2016)
Duke is a carousel unicorn who hates his job. One day, a fat child pushes him beyond the brink, bringing him to life and sending him on the path of revenge. Honestly, if you read that sentence and laughed, this movie is for you. This was directed by Steve Rudinzki, who was also behind Red Christmas and […]
No Holds Barred (1989)
I’ve never understood No Holds Barred. It had the entire WWE machine behind it — watching an hour of their program in 1989 was akin to watching an hour commercial for this movie — and this was the movie they put so much effort behind? A movie that makes wrestling and its top star both look […]
The Peanut Butter Falcon (2018)
This is the first film written and directed by Tyler Nilson and Michael Schwartz. It’s really special. Yep — I’m going to dispense with that notion that a review has to wait to tell you how it feels about a movie until the end. It’s all about Zak, a 22-year-old with Down syndrome played by […]
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