This movie, while both a critical and box office failure, is to me a good hidden gem example of a fun “garbage movie”. Take the preposterous plot that involves a large group of Elvis impersonators robbing a Vegas casino and then wind up turning on each other (have mercy!) leaving the two alpha males to fight over the remaining prize. (They just could not go … Continue reading 3,000 Miles to Graceland Review
Man on the Moon is not a wrestling movie really, but a good portion of it is devoted to Andy Kauffman, who was an ahead of his time comedian and avant-guard provocateur and his dabblings in pro wrestling. It all started out with him wrestling women as a comedy skit, and evolved to him actually taking the act to actual wrestling arenas in the Tennessee … Continue reading Man on the Moon Review
Some movies that you see and love as a child should be left in your childhood and never revisited as an adult, lest you tarnish those memories. No Holds Barred is just such a movie. I knew going in that this movie was not going to be a classic by any stretch of the imagination, but I wasn’t fully prepared for just how bad it … Continue reading No Holds Barred Review
It’s strange to think when this movie started, it was going to be much more of a WCW influenced documentary than a WWF one, and Mick Foley was going to be in the Jake Roberts role of, wrestler down on his luck in the last days of his career. All of this according to Foley himself on a recent podcast, who said, in 1995 when … Continue reading Beyond the Mat Review
If the people who ran World Wrestling Entertainment were as inept at what they do as the producers of this movie were at making a comedy, that form of entertainment would have went out of business decades ago. Ready to Rumble is a wrestling movie produced in conjunction with a wrestling company, that did in fact go out of business from being that inept, and … Continue reading Ready to Rumble Review
This is a very interesting and historically significant film for a number of reasons. In the opening scene we see Muhammad Ali (Still Cassius Clay at the time) in a boxing match with Mountain Rivera (Anthony Quinn) in a bout so one sided it forces Rivera to retire. Facing retirement now, Rivera finds that he has few marketable skills and that his only option may … Continue reading Requiem for a Heavyweight Review
Three salesman converge upon a Wichita hotel suite where they are holding one of those dreadfully boring business get togethers in order to snag a big time client referred to as The Big Kahuna. In the meantime, as they wait for the party they all take turns waxing poetic on life and what it means to be a human being. What a hidden gem for … Continue reading The Big Kahuna Review
Harold Crick breaks for the fourth wall of his own life when he discovers that he is in fact a character in a book being written in a parallel universe. He begins hearing strange voices that turn out to be the narrator of the movie and eventually discovers the half written manuscript and being mystified, shows it to a critic friend of his who informs … Continue reading Stranger Than Fiction
If you are a man, one of the trade-offs for being in a relationship with members of the opposite sex is that occasionally you have to watch garbage like this. Most of the time it’s not that big of a deal. If all chick flicks were as horrendous as “The Boy Next Door” it would make it a much different matter. Jennifer Lopez plays … Continue reading The Boy Next Door Review
Dr. Ben McKenna, (James Stewart) goes on holiday with his wife (Doris Day) and son in Morocco where they bump into a couple of strangers who will forever alter the course of their lives. The stranger winds up dead, and when they attempt to report his death they wind up mixed up in an assassination plot far bigger than they could have imagined. In order … Continue reading The Man Who Knew Too Much Review
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