ICYMI over the holidays:

🎄 NEW REVIEWS: 🎄

A pair of Christmas Classics for your yuletide enjoyment.

🎅Nick Bockwinkel vs Mad Dog Vachon
🎅Baby Vader vs Otto Wanz

All that and more, only at Brock Hates Wrestling.

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I've watched every NJPW match I could find between 86 and May 89. This (5/25/89) is it for Inoki as a regular wrestler. He still had such a connection with the crowd. There's another world where he was part of the Musketeers' rise so much more directly (if they could rise past him). He was magic.

One final bump for my TCM program tonight. I hope you'll be able to check it out. Love y'all.

must sometimes be incredibly weird to live in the world you spent your life advocating for

I know posting "the girls are fighting" seems funny, but it's actually insensitive and shitty.

My father died in a girl fight. He tried to break it up and the girls pulled him apart like freshly baked bread. He didn't even scream. One moment he was there, the next just a spray of dad viscera.

After Steven Spielberg saw Inland Empire for the first time he told David Lynch and Laura Dern that he had an overwhelming experience. He praised the film, and Dern’s performance in particular, stating that he believed it to be a quintessential picture about death and dying and the fear of that journey. Lynch was never the type of filmmaker who suggested that any reading of his art was the primary one, but it was an eye opening endorsement for Dern, who hadn’t considered that Inland Empire might be about those things. Dern has said that she felt lost while making the movie, but that she had enormous gratitude for the chance to be thrown into that void where there were no rules. She stated that it was the greatest experience she had ever had as an actor. Dern plays Nikki in Inland Empire, and she is so engrossing, fraying with confusion, boiling with anger, and rotting with despair. Nikki has recently agreed to star in an upcoming film that’s being adapted from a supposedly “cursed” Polish script called “On High in Blue Tomorrows”. Dern has been quiet about what she thinks it all means, believing that whatever solutions might be found in Inland Empire would only prompt more questions. What seems correct to me is there isn’t a single truth in this film, or in any of Lynch’s films, but many true things within the eerie, lonely, specific spaces that he has created, and whatever resonates varies depending on the circumstances of each individual viewer. Where Spielberg sees something universal about death, I perceive a unified consciousness that suggests a synchronicity between women within the apparatus of cinema where Nikki is a doppelganger of Laura Palmer from Twin Peaks, who is a doppelganger of Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz (1939), who is a doppelganger of Joan of Arc from Dreyer’s classic silent film, and so on, and so forth. Women are at the mercy of movies, and there’s nothing that movies love more than a woman in trouble.

a still from David Lynch's Inland Empire. It's a frame of Laura Dern in an extreme close-up. She has a look one her face of sadness, anger and confusion. Her eyes are red and glistening with tears.

I have always considered INLAND EMPIRE to be my white whale, and I finally wrote about it.

www.patreon.com/posts/130363...

An image of a tweet asserting that Indiana Pacers player Pascal Siakam must be leading the NBA playoffs in transition points that is quote tweeted with an image of Siakam superimposed over the transgender pride flag.

Happy Pride #YesCers

You're not frog
and I'm telling everyone

Castration Movie Anthology ii. The Best Of Both Worlds A trans woman in trouble. The second half of Louise Weard’s castration epic.

My pal @weard.moe is so close to getting her movie funded. If you've got the means to do so, please help out. This money is going directly into the pockets of trans creatives who are making trans art by and for us, which is a god damn rarity in cinema. Let's rock

www.kickstarter.com/projects/wea...

our nation has a Kennedy missing his brain and now a white man from Dallas is about to help LBJ win. welcome back, 1963

ICYMI over the holiday:

It Ain’t Easy Being Green I do not like Mitsuharu Misawa. I kinda never have, as best as I can remember. Having become a wrestling fan as a teenager in late 2007, I came up in an era in which it was pretty commonplace to ra…

Need to kill time on Christmas?

Then why don't you peruse 300+ match reviews covering Mitsuharu Misawa's entire career

❎ IT AIN'T EASY BEING GREEN ❎

Finally finished and available only at Brock Hates Wrestling:

brockhateswrestling.wordpress.com/it-aint-easy...

ICYMI, yesterday we continued the Season of Giving with a comp from @notbrock.bsky.social. Subscribe: wrestlingplaylists.com

Season of Giving

It's Sunday double header time as the Season of Giving continues with a comp from @notbrock.bsky.social of brockhateswrestling.wordpress.com. Subscribe: wrestlingplaylists.com

she calls me murnau because she fw me

The Thin Blue Line (1988): A Person, At That Time, Pulled Over Errol Morris's "The Thin Blue Line" is a mystery story—but one that’s already done. Call it documentary noir.

for @bwdr.bsky.social i wrote about errol morris’s the thin blue line as documentary noir and a pretty terrifying illustration of an invented truth

www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2024/11/14/t...

Thing I forgot to share from Saturday: This guy broke out an ancient relic to deal with the rain.

Sit at it

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Definitely the most epic food

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Smarts, in both senses of the word

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