Curt McGirt

I heard Beetlejuice 2 is finally being made, with Keaton.

Don Post was the man.

That has to be the first pinfall off a fistdrop I've ever seen. Nice. Baby Face blades in abdomen-covering fashion after the always great Corona sideboard posting. Announcer keeps talking about La Fiera as a master of tae-kwon-do or something, probably because he kicks a lot. The ref having to peel apart the two men from the octopus hold that ends segunda caida underlines the hate these two have for each other. We get a brief clip and Fiera is already bleeding. He has a great response to someone putting you in a hammerlock: just punch 'em in the kidneys! There's an even better moment where Baby Face picks up Fiera's feet as he's hanging through the ropes and just dumps him on his head. So many cheap shots in this one. Fiera bouncing off the floor is a sight. Nice little "revancha" finish and there goes Baby's mop. I didn't even know this was a hair match! They keep talking shit to each other and Fiera even kicks Baby as he's getting shaved. Great match, nice methodical pace where every shot felt like it was meant to hurt, good armwork from Baby Face too.

I'm amazed that Haku is the same height as Tully and Arn.

Kinda reminds me of Westworld

First off I have to say, having never seen either of these guys, I love their masks. Ano's is beautiful with the tusk-like designs coming out of the cheeks, and Rayo's is awesome in its simplicity, so understated. I wonder how these guys fared in the mask tournament on the old board... Work is fine if a bit middle-of-the-road. Rayo is one lanky bastard for a luchador. He sells every bump into the turnbuckles like it's killing him. So much for the first two falls, that was quick. After some weak opening offense from Rayo we get two topes and a plancha where he nukes his knee on the floor landing, looks like it hurt a lot. There's some controversy over the martinete as the finish but the ref and the commish seem fine with it so we call it a match. Fair and short, probably low-middle in the rankings.

Since he liked the Entertainment FMW era, maybe freelancing in HUSTLE/SMASH?

Ultramantis doing hardcore punk -- I am completely on board

Now you guys just made me think of a mascara contra mascara match with Leatherface.

It was still pretty damn funny.

Well, I guess I know where Dick Togo got the idea for the skull mask he takes off before his matches now. Opening beatdown is kind of listless but los Misionarios pull off a cool triple-team submission, and then after the one-foot cover Tony Salazar protests on the apron and gets slapped right in his goddamn face. That's how you do it rudo style, folks. This looks to be more comedy-oriented with Dantes' run of atomic drops and the second-fall end with a four-way wishbone spot that Lizmark ranas into the middle of. Screwjob ending is horrible. Overall this is rather poor for the set and is gonna rank pretty low. The "brawl" at the end doesn't even have any real heat to it as they put up their dukes and dance around each other. I expected a whole lot more from one of the only two Misionarios matches on the set. One of the few saving graces is Lizmark, his work is flashy yet graceful, everything you want out of a luchador.

Damn, I didn't know that PR was gonna have its own set, I thought that was gonna be under Territories. How much footage have you guys found/how big is this one gonna be? Dig that this is right after Lucha...

Seeing Moose with the helmet makes me laugh at Terry Funk saying he used to have it as carry-on luggage during flights in his book. What a bullshitter. Who is that next to him, by the way?

Jax killer her because of the similarity to his own story as a child, and she deserved to die anyway because she was a fucking CHILD PORNOGRAPHER. And thank you to Hollenger for realizing that was the great Adrienne Barbeau.

Check it out again man, I just caught it on a local station of all places (channel 3!) and it was fantastic. Frank Darabont had a hand in the scriptwriting and he puts a very King-ly feel in it. Plus the effects are just boss for the most part. Only God Forgives was watched last night under, erm, enhanced circumstances and I really dug it. I can see why people would call it a piece of shit. Incredibly slow, Gosling has exactly one show of emotion in the entire film and otherwise is a mannequin, absurd amount of gore, seems to just kind of drift off at the end. That's all the point. It's like a fever dream where real life gets buried in a combination of the color schemes of Argento's Suspiria and Mann's Thief to evoke a state of unrest, of unreality. At its heart I really do think it's a horror film, as I think one of the main characters is a spirit, or at least an avenging angel of death who manifests himself into the real world to wreak vengeance for wrongs done. Who knows. It's a trashy genre film and a classy art-house film rolled together, and a nasty piece of filmmaking altogether, and I want to see it again.

And hey, Jae! Great writeup on The Blob. What did you think about the '88 version?

I missed the last one but this one was a damn good ep. Goggins' Venus indeed got a proper inject of humanity and it's great to know she isn't a punchline anymore if she's gonna be on more often. Of course this lead to more wild chases and dead bodies that nobody seems to see/report/find, but what else is new. Tara's trump card was great but I can see it blowing up in her face later. And hey, they saved the table! Also, that was a really moving song at the end. Sutter knows how to pick his music when it's necessary.

I just missed two showings of Rocky here but the theater was SO FUCKING FULL that I seriously doubt I could have found a seat. Plus I don't like lines and I don't like crowds (but for this? c'mon). Hopefully with this success the Art will realize that as soon as the students come back to Champaign they can run the film twice every weekend for at least two months until Halloween.

I just picked up a whole passle of stuff from the local store (reviews to come) and the first thing watched was DRUG WAR (2013, Johnnie To) I've read a lot of good things about this. They're all correct. The film begins with a bang and ends with a whimper, but that is all relative to the story, not relative to whether how good it is. Timmy (Louis Ko) is caught by the police during a completely unrelated drug operation and to save his hide he decides to cooperate due to draconian Chinese laws which would give him the death penalty for meth manufacturing. He leads main cop Captain Lei (Sun Honglei) into the bowels of his organization on an elaborate double-sting. Obviously, carnage ensues, but you don't know when and you don't know how. The film has a fantastic slow burn until the shit hits the fan, and when it does, it just sucks you in further. Trying to make sense of the sting at first was confusing but once you get it you realize you're in the hands of a master and let logic fly out the window just to see more. Ko's character turns are unexpected but they won't be after you see the whole picture and reflect. Bang-up film, one of the best of the year and I'm damn glad to have seen it for rental at some shitty Midwestern video store on the edge of town.

If Team America counts (or the South Park Movie) then yes for those, and also yes for Phantom.

I do not like musicals. I do not like showtunes. I do not like Broadway. But I LOVE Rocky Horror.

Ah, the late, great Freddie Francis. I really need to see that one. Trivia: The Creeping Flesh is actually the next-to-last film from short-lived Hammer/Amicus imitator/competitor Tigon British Film Productions, whos claim to fame is the inimitable Witchfinder General.

^ or read, what Vince wanted from Ahmed Johnson

Big E. could indeed be what Vince wanted from Bobby Lashley, and I don't think he'd fuck it up. Michaels reffing just reminded me of the Mr. Gannosuke/Hayabusa match he reffed where he started counting them both out at ringside, Gannosuke said "NO COUNT!" and he just kept going anyway. "It's FMW ya dingus!"

I was laughing my ass off at Zeb mentioning Stockholm Syndrome seconds after I thought about him doing that. There was another line in there that seriously cracked me up but I can't remember it. Zeb and JBL were killing it on the mic tonight and made a pretty standard go-home Raw into a laugh-fest. Hell, Cole and Lawler cracking up a lot helped that out too. Big E. Langston Super Face is going to fucking rule.