WATCH NOW We think we know the story quite well already. There is a young wrestler with two goals: (a) winning the state championship title and (b) winning a girl. The state champion is a massive brute who lifts and throws telephone poles to the top of stadiums. His love interest is a 20 year […]
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WATCH NOW I first saw this one a couple of times, including on Spike back in 2007, around the time I was beginning the DTVC and they played all 8 of them over the period of about a week or so. Somehow, this slipped between the cracks, and I didn’t think about reviewing it back
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WATCH NOW Why do rivalries exist among different Martial Arts schools? I want to focus on movie martial arts schools. I understand the rivalry is lighthearted when it comes to martial arts schools in real life, but movies seem to take things further. There surely is enough space for more than 1 martial arts school
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WATCH NOW The sound of the word “grind” resonates with ‘The Endless Summer’ precisely because it captures the spirit of the film, dreamy surfing, where a group of friends spends most of their lives together, traveling to search for the ever-elusive perfect wave. However, this time the perfect wave is replaced by the goal, ‘sponsorship’
WATCH NOW Famed Whittier High School dropout for his contributions to film, Rockie Juarez, is an utter video store nut and considers himself a very lucky person. Although there’s a theatre of incredible movies, it is probably impossible to get through all of them at once. That is precisely why he has the wonderful Stephanie
WATCH NOW Having not seen it, I might not even consider it an Ohio indie because it was shot in the southern parts of Indiana, however, there was a request made to me to do a small review for the independent film, A Father’s Fight, a low budget, faith-based, which is now having a small
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Remember as you read this that sexiness was not frowned upon during this era, which was right after Women’s Lib and the Sexual Revolution, but long before anyone had to be concerned with cyber-spies or the #MeToo movement. A time when a girl from the farmlands of Virginia, severely lacking in resources, is able to
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In my endeavor to watch Street Dreams last week, I had the unfortunate experience of realizing that I confused the title for a Christian Partisan movie called, Hardflip. From what I said in the previous review, I will basically watch any film that involves skateboarding. I used to think that Street Dreams will be the
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The date May 6th, 2016 will be forever engraved in the downhill world cup racing community as a date of tragedy. Indeed on this day, mountain biking lost one of its brightest stars, Stevie Smith. Whether it is the downhill event of the racing world or the mountain biking industry as a whole, Stevie Smith
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Joshua Pomer began shooting The Westsiders when he was just 16 years old. The year was 1980’s and Pomer had borrowed a video camera from Santa Cruz High. What began as an amateur passion project soon became much more. Armed with the bulky camcorder, Pomer recorded the Steamer Lane, the surf antics of his friends
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