Posts in Wrestling Month
Hulk Hogan's Debut Vehicle, 1989's No Holds Barred Established the Grappler as a Uniquely Hopeless Actor

Wrestling month continues with a patron-funded look at Hulk Hogan’s debut vehicle, 1989’s No Holds Barred. It’s a gleefully terrible guilty pleasure where the superstar wrestler’s jock ass is upstaged at every turn by wonderfully hammy villains played by Kurt Fuller and Tommy “Tiny” Lister in a career-making role.

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Rando! Bending the Rules (2012)

An ever so slightly overqualified Phillip Baker Hall and Jessica Walter are Jamie Kennedy’s parents in 2012’s Bending the Rules, a featherweight buddy cop comedy vehicle for WWE superstar Adam “Edge” Copeland distinguished by a powerful performance from the legendary star of Secret Honor and Hard Eight.

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Control Nathan Rabin 4.0 #173 Chokeslam (2017)

Wrestling month continues with a look at 2017’s Chokeslam, a wrestling movie starring Silicon Valley’s Amanda Crew, Christopher Marquette and Mick Foley that is decidedly different because it

  1. focuses on a female wrestler

  2. is Canadian

  3. is a romantic comedy of small town life rather an action movie

  4. is intentionally funny, and overall pretty good

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