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Eric Thurm Mar 31, 2022. 3 minute read
Should You Watch Raised By Wolves? A Prospective Viewer’s Guide
Do you miss classic sci-fi TV, with its blend of heady ideas and almost laughable production value? Do you wish you could still roll out of bed on a Saturday and watch endless episodes of Farscape or Babylon 5? In other words, do you miss when sci-fi TV was fully…
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mer Mar 29, 2022. 5 minute read
You’re Only Second Rate: WWE’s Midcard Titles Remain Absent from WrestleMania
We are less than one week from WrestleMania 38, which again airs over whole two calendar nights. Last year, this format worked out great, allowing both Bianca Belair vs. Sasha Banks and Roman Reigns vs. Edge vs. Daniel Bryan to occupy main event spots. Both matches were well worthy of…
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Dylan Roth Mar 29, 2022. 11 minute read
Should You Watch Star Trek: Discovery? A New Viewer’s Guide
Star Trek: Discovery might be the most divisive series in the storied science fiction franchise. Premiering in 2017 after a 12-year drought for Trek television, Discovery was the first Star Trek series to debut behind a streaming paywall, a controversial enough move on its own, but it also marked a…
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Eric Gladstone Mar 25, 2022. 7 minute read
Pro Wrestling Tees’ Powerbomb Pizza Made Me Like Wrestling a Little Less
On March 10, Pro Wrestling Tees announced a collaboration with Uber Eats meant to please the wrestling/pizza/t-shirt lover crossover that defines more than a few of its customers: Powerbomb Pizza. I had some questions: is it a cynical marketing ploy? Does it actually benefit wrestlers? Most importantly, is the food…
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Natalie Weiner Mar 25, 2022. 3 minute read
The NCAA Should Budget For An Archive As It Expands Its Funding For Women’s Sports
Every week in her Good Form column, Natalie Weiner explores the ways in which the sports world’s structural inequalities and injustices illuminate those outside it — and the ways in which they’re inextricably connected. You can read previous columns here. Last year, the unfair treatment that the NCAA had gotten…
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SPORTS
Dylan Roth Mar 25, 2022. 5 minute read
‘The Lost City’ Review: Desperately Seeking D
The Lost City, this week’s new adventure/comedy/romance starring Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum and directed by Aaron and Adam Nee, used to be called The Lost City of D. Paramount elected to remove the sexual innuendo from the title before promoting the film, leaving it with a much more forgettable…
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TV/FILM
David Bixenspan Mar 24, 2022. 5 minute read
The Kliq’s Legacy Is Their Bond, Not Their Backstage Politics
When hardcore wrestling fans were introduced to the concept of Shawn Michaels, Kevin Nash, Scott Hall, Sean Waltman, and Triple H having consolidated their power in the WWF as “The Kliq,” it was not in the most flattering of terms. Editor’s note: The Kliq was initially spelled “The Clique,” until…
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Colette Arrand Mar 23, 2022. Less than a minute
Is AEW Better Than WWE?
Yes. More Professional Wrestling How Tony Schiavone’s AEW Comeback Saved His Reputation Did THAT MJF Promo Make You Uncomfortable? Good. It Was Supposed To. In Failure, Eddie Kingston Is the Wrestler of the Year Join Us: Every AEW Faction Ranked On Eddie Kingston, CM Punk, and Whether People Can Really…
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Trevor Dame Mar 23, 2022. 15 minute read
How Tony Schiavone’s AEW Comeback Saved His Reputation
I can’t think of another person in wrestling who has had the career trajectory of Tony Schiavone. Yes, wrestling has seen a million comebacks, but this is more than a comeback. Imagine working at a career for over a decade and a half and leaving at your lowest point, at…
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Steven Nguyen Scaife Mar 23, 2022. 8 minute read
After Yang Uses Robots to Explore the Expectations of Being Asian
After Yang is a quiet and often beautiful film, set in a future where people and technology seem a little more attuned to nature rather than the climate-ravaged dystopia we are plainly headed towards. But one of its early touches is surprisingly showy, a delightful competition held in living rooms…
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Belle Magee Mar 22, 2022. 6 minute read
Thunder Rosa and Britt Baker’s Cage Match Brought a Year Long Feud to a Satisfying End
Last Wednesday night, the All Elite Wrestling’s Women’s Championship was on the line in a particularly well built-up cage match. After a months-long feud full of violence both verbal and physical, Britt Baker and Thunder Rosa were set to return to the ring with each other one last time to…
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Dylan Roth Mar 22, 2022. 7 minute read
Everything Everywhere All at Once Review: Instant Classic
In 2016, after completing their debut feature Swiss Army Man, filmmakers Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert (collectively known as “Daniels”) began composing their ambitious follow-up, an outlandish action comedy in which an ordinary person travels the multiverse and explores the unfulfilled potential of their life. Six years later, the multiverse…
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mer Mar 21, 2022. 5 minute read
Steve Austin Cracks Open His Final Can of Whoop Ass
As a young, hip, and extremely cool millennial, my memories of the 1990s are fuzzy at best, admittedly. This means I unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on who you ask) have little to no idea what it was like to experience a time period where wrestling was actually pretty cool. I…
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Colette Arrand Mar 18, 2022. 13 minute read
Scott Hall, Wrestling’s Bad Guy, Was Eternally Cool
Scott Hall died on Monday, March 14, of after an attempted hip replacement surgery loosed a blood clot which caused three heart attacks two days earlier. He was 63 years old. I have been struggling for two days to think of something to say about his passing, but it’s difficult.…
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Joseph Anthony Montecillo Mar 18, 2022. 7 minute read
To Celebrate Its 50th Anniversary, NJPW Chased Its Past
New Japan Pro Wrestling currently has a complicated relationship with its history. The company has existed for half a century now, having spent most of that tenure as the leading wrestling promotion in Japan. New Japan’s grip on the top spot in Japan has rarely wavered in any quantifiable way.…
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Natalie Weiner Mar 18, 2022. 4 minute read
On Trans Athletes and the Idea of Acceptable Advantages
Every week in her Good Form column, Natalie Weiner explores the ways in which the sports world’s structural inequalities and injustices illuminate those outside it — and the ways in which they’re inextricably connected. You can read previous columns here. I want to fully dedicate this column to the very…
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Dylan Roth Mar 17, 2022. 9 minute read
Star Trek: Discovery Season 4 Episode 13 “Coming Home” Review
At its best, Star Trek: Discovery is a thrilling, emotionally-charged space drama that deeply invests in its lead character’s path to becoming a righteous space hero. At its worst, it’s a cloying, self-important product that is mortally afraid of hurting its audience’s feelings. Discovery’s fourth season finale, “Coming Home,” contains…
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Geoffrey D. Wessel Mar 15, 2022. 7 minute read
Crowning Underachievements: Tag Teams Collide at NJPW’s 50th Anniversary
Not everyone can be a superstar in professional wrestling. Indeed, the entire history of the business is littered with more “journeymen,” “good hands,” jobbers, midcarders, curtain jerkers, also-rans and never-weres, then your rare, bona-fide mainstream names and pop culture icons. But hey, someone has to fill the slots on the…
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merritt k Mar 15, 2022. 2 minute read
Cybersix Was Ahead of Its Time
What if Batman was a genetically-engineered superwoman who disguised herself as a goofy male teacher during the day, had a panther for a brother, and fought against a Nazi scientist and his cloned son? Well, that would be Cybersix, an Argentine comic book series that was initially created in 1991 by…
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Ashley Naftule Mar 14, 2022. 7 minute read
Shake On It: Chris Jericho & Eddie Kingston Fought For Respect at Revolution
November 13, 2021: Eddie Kingston loses a grudge match to CM Punk at Full Gear. Punk, his battered face veiled in blood, stretches his hand out to Eddie—offering him the respect he’s denied Kingston for so long. Eddie doesn’t take it. He turns and sulks off, so bitter at his…
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