There’s a certain kind of grit that doesn’t get washed off in the shower. You don’t inherit it, you don’t train for it. You’re born with it—somewhere between busted knuckles and busted dreams. Peyton Prussin, now called Kendal Grey in WWE’s Evolve brand, was forged in that kind of fire. Not the fire they sell … Read More “Kendal Grey: Wrestling’s New Storm Rolls Out of the Desert” »
If women’s wrestling has a back alley entrance and a backfist to the jaw, Susan “Tex” Green kicked the door open in cowboy boots and dared anyone to tell her she didn’t belong. Born in the swelter of Corpus Christi in 1953, Green wasn’t raised on dreams of tiaras and pageants—she was bred in the … Read More “Susan “Tex” Green: The Wild Rose of Corpus Christi” »
Original Gangstas is the kind of movie that sounds like a good idea when you’re six bourbons deep at a VHS nostalgia convention. Round up the legends of 1970s blaxploitation—Fred Williamson, Jim Brown, Pam Grier, Richard Roundtree—and throw them back into the streets of Gary, Indiana like they never left. You know, for old times’ … Read More “Original Gangstas (1996) More Geriatric Than Gangsta” »
They stood under the lights like two noir goddesses with murder in their mascara. “Timeless” Toni Storm and Mercedes Moné met for what felt like the final cigarette before the firing squad—face-to-face on AEW Dynamite, just days before their reckoning at All In: Texas. Storm didn’t even bother with the ring. She emerged on-screen, backstage … Read More “The Champagne War: Toni Storm, Mercedes Moné, and the Beautiful Bruise of Legacy” »
If you’re looking for a TV movie that feels like it was shot on a budget smaller than a Costco rotisserie chicken, yet still manages to hold your attention through sheer ‘90s charisma and the hypnotic presence of Traci Lords’ cheekbones, As Good As Dead (1995) might be your jam. What makes it even stranger … Read More “As Good As Dead (1995) – Lifetime, Lipstick, and a Low-Stakes Body Swap” »
There’s a certain sound a barbell makes when it bends. It’s not a scream. Not a whimper. It’s more like the groan of God Himself watching someone rewrite the rules of strength with each calloused grip. Patricia Forrest Gresham—known to the faithful, the fallen, and the foolish as Jordynne Grace—has made a career out of … Read More “The Iron Grace of Jordynne: Muscles, Mayhem, and the Making of a Machine” »
There are films that sneak up on you, grab your throat, and whisper sweet cinematic nothings before slapping you with a third-act twist. Then there’s The Ambulance—a movie that pulls up beside you like some wheezing, low-budget Cadillac of nonsense and offers you a ride you’ll regret accepting before the door even closes. Directed by … Read More “The Ambulance (1990): A Drive to Nowhere with the Sirens Wailing” »
LONDON, ENGLAND – The mist is lifting. The black hat returns. And in a long-awaited comeback to the indie trenches, Julia Hart is stepping outside the All Elite Wrestling machine for the first time in three years—headed straight for the high-octane, punk-rock pro wrestling landscape of Pro Wrestling EVE. Alongside her is AEW’s resilient underdog … Read More “Julia Hart and Skye Blue Head to London for EVE X The World: A Collision Course on August 23” »
Somewhere between a community theater rehearsal of Hocus Pocus and a daytime soap opera suffering from an identity crisis lies Wicked Stepmother, the 1989 film that dares to ask: “What if Bette Davis was a witch—but also half-cat—and also visibly didn’t want to be in this movie?” Directed (and written) by Larry Cohen, who gave … Read More “Wicked Stepmother (1989): A Cursed Farewell to Bette Davis and Your Time” »
In the long shadow of Basic Instinct, every hack with a camera and a half-dead libido tried to shoot the next big thing in silk sheets and saxophone scores. Some got lucky. Others ended up directing Snapdragon, a film so listless it makes a hangover feel like jazz. This one comes from director Worth Keeter—yes, … Read More “Snapdragon (1993): A Postcard from the Neon Graveyard” »
