'Three Thousand Years of Longing' Review: Left Wanting

It takes a special kind of film, however, to mix me up inside to the extent that I’m not sure which feelings I want to explore in this review. I feel joy, I feel despair; I’m impres...

Tokyo Joshi Pro's Summer Sun Princess was a Coming of Age Show

By any measure, July 18th’s Summer Sun Princess was a landmark show for Tokyo Joshi Pro Wrestling. Not only was the crowd at Ota City Ward Gymnasium even larger than 2021’s Wrestle Princess II, it was...

The Entire History of Professional Wrestling. All of It.

Fanfyte will son be ending its wrestling coverage, and while I’ve gotten to cover some of the stranger corners of wrestling, there’s so much I haven’t gotten to. For a Fanfyte farewell, I thought I’d ...

Interview: Jun Akiyama's Career Speaks for Itself

When I was approached about interviewing a member of the DDT roster of my choice, one name stood out above the others. That’s not a knock on the other wrestlers at DDT, it’s one of the most stacked an...

Why Does the Minions: Rise of Gru Soundtrack Go So Hard?

Yesterday, I saw Minions: Rise of Gru (somehow a day before the worldwide launch), and it was a surprisingly exceptional experience that threw me through a range of unexpected emotions. The c...

'Crimes of the Future' Review: Eat Trash, Be Free

After more than twenty years, David Cronenberg returns to the world of sci-fi body horror without missing a beat. Amid the rotting bones of a nameless, placeless coastal city, the performance artists ...

With The G Word, Adam Conover Actually Made Me Care About the Government

The G Word opens with host Adam Conover mid-conversation with Barack Obama, one of his executive producers. Afraid the show will be perceived as pro-government propaganda, Conover sa...

'Don't Worry Darling' Review: Do Worry, Actually

Still, my hope was to sit down for my early screening with an open mind, as I think all films deserve. What I didn’t realize (and this was stupid of me, really) was that every other...

'Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers' Review: The Loneliest Number

Does it really matter if I dislike Chip ‘n Dale: Rescue Rangers? I found it empty and pandering, an instance of some typically reliable comedians on autopilot, but is it even for me? I...

GCW Took Its Place in Wrestling History at the Hammerstein Ballroom

On May 19, 1915, a purported “international wrestling tournament” commenced at the Manhattan Opera House in New York City. Over the next year or so, such tournaments would feature future legends of th...

In the Mouth of Madness Creeps Into the Cult of Personality

This week on You Love To See It (our movie podcast!), Fernanda and I re-watched In the Mouth of Madness, John Carpenter’s final installment of his “apocalypse trilogy,” as a new twis...

We Need to Change the Way We Talk About Chris Benoit

Leaving aside the issue of individual taste, the former statement is widely held to be true and the later is established fact. If Chris Benoit was anybody else — if he were half the wrestler ...

What’s in the New Star Wars Bar's Five Thousand Dollar Drink?

Disney announced its drink list for the Hyperspace Lounge today — a bar on the new Disney Wish cruise ship. Under the “hyperfuel” section is a selection of non-alcoholic drinks, and then, in its own s...

'Ambulance' Review: If Less is More, Just Think How Much More More Would Be

Cut to the Chase and Then Back to the Chase and Back to the Chase Again Out-of-work ...

Big Fishes at the PC: WWE Midcarders Living Their Best Life on NXT

This year’s WrestleMania weekend offered one of WWE’s strongest lineup of matches and sheer spectacle in years. As the kickoff show before WrestleMania, NXT’s don’t-call-it-a-TakeOver Stand & Deli...

'The Northman' Review: Go North, Young Man

Men howl and stamp around a roaring fire, dragging animal cries up from deep within their bellies. A son and his father snarl and snap at one another on all fours in a secret burrow deep under the ear...

'Men' Review: Trash Indeed

Still recovering from the death of her husband James (Paapa Essiedu), Harper Marlowe (Jessie Buckley) has rented a country cottage, retreating to the sort of stone-and-brick village that makes her blu...

70 Years Ago, Verne Gagne and Hans Schmidt Had a Timeless Classic

So you clicked, that’s a good start.

The Best Butts in Professional Wrestling

“Booty, booty, booty, booty, rockin’ everywhere!” – Bubba Sparxx “Whatcha gon’ do with all that junk? All that junk inside your trunk?” – Will.I.Am, or maybe the other guy

Reexamining Shawn Michaels Losing His Smile, 25 Years Later

February 13, 1997’s Thursday Raw Thursday special  has, in the past 25 years, become synonymous with one thing: Shawn Michaels, in the process of giving a speech where he vacated the WWF Cha...