Scott’s desire to tell people what movies to watch knows no bounds. He’s decided to create a series on here devoted to profiling directors and creating guides to their films. This week’s director is… Ron Howard. Highly recommended: Apollo 13 … Continue reading Director Profile: Ron Howard
I could talk about how great wrestling was this past week but let’s be real, the thing everyone is talking about is the ending of this week’s Raw, where The Rock just fucking obliterating Cody Rhodes. It’s one of the … Continue reading The Weekly Wrestling Thread Is Still Thinking About That Raw Ending
Scott’s desire to tell people what movies to watch knows no bounds. He’s decided to create a series on here devoted to profiling directors and creating guides to their films. This week’s director is… William A. Wellman. Highly recommended: Wings, … Continue reading Director Profile: William A. Wellman
Mercedes Mone finally debuted in AEW this past week. She debuted to a super hyped crowd, excited internet reaction (especially from her stans), and… lower ratings than expected. Part of this is partially out of AEW’s control (Mercedes stans are … Continue reading The Weekly Wrestling Thread Does Mid Business
Scott’s desire to tell people what movies to watch knows no bounds. He’s decided to create a series on here devoted to profiling directors and creating guides to their films. This week’s director is… Orson Welles. Highly recommended: Citizen Kane … Continue reading Director Profile: Orson Welles
There is a lot to talk about this week. Will Ospreay had his TV debut last Wednesday and it was amazing. TNA had a pretty good PPV with Sacrifice. Sami Zayn is going to be facing Gunther at WrestleMania. We’re … Continue reading The Weekly Wrestling Thread Cuts a Promo
Scott’s desire to tell people what movies to watch knows no bounds. He’s decided to create a series on here devoted to profiling directors and creating guides to their films. This week’s director is… William Wyler. Highly recommended: Dodsworth, Jezebel, … Continue reading Director Profile: William Wyler
This past weekend, the wrestling world said goodbye to Sting as an active performer. His final match was a Tag Team match with Darby All in against The Young Bucks at AEW Revolution. With most retirement matches, it’s expected that … Continue reading The Weekly Wrestling Thread Says Goodbye to Sting
Scott’s desire to tell people what movies to watch knows no bounds. He’s decided to create a series on here devoted to profiling directors and creating guides to their films. This week’s director is… Sidney Lumet. Highly recommended: 12 Angry … Continue reading Director Profile: Sidney Lumet
The winners of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter Awards were announced this past week. Here are the top five vote getters for each category (alongside what I voted for). Wrestler of the Year:1. Will Ospreay (302 first place votes) 1,814 points2. … Continue reading The Weekly Wrestling Thread Looks at the Wrestling Observer Awards
Scott’s desire to tell people what movies to watch knows no bounds. He’s decided to create a series on here devoted to profiling directors and creating guides to their films. This week’s director is… Richard Fleischer. Highly recommended: Soylent Green … Continue reading Director Profile: Richard Fleischer
For once, the biggest wrestling story this week wasn’t a horrible, depressing scandal. Instead, it’s about Dave Meltzer. Meltzer is one of the greatest wrestling historians ever. He’s also a journalist and… he’s one of the greatest historians at least. … Continue reading The Weekly Wrestling Thread Wonders What’s Going on With Dave Meltzer
Scott’s desire to tell people what movies to watch knows no bounds. He’s decided to create a series on here devoted to profiling directors and creating guides to their films. This week’s director is… Luis Buñuel. Highly recommended: Un Chien … Continue reading Director Profile: Luis Buñuel
I overslept this week, so it’s going to be a sparse (even more than usual) header this week. The news this week has been both good (WWE pivoting back to Cody vs. Roman), bad (NJPW star Taiji Ishimori threw up … Continue reading The Weekly Wrestling Thread Overslept
Here it is, the best movies of all time according to the Avocado. Casablanca has now topped the list three times. Mad Max: Fury Road came close to dethroning it but Casablanca pulled ahead on the last day of voting. Rounding out the top five was a three-way tie of Mulholland Drive, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. 1. Casablanca 17 mentions2. Mad Max: Fury Road 16 mention3. Mulholland Drive 14 mentions3. Raiders of the Lost Ark 14 mentions3. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse 14 mentions6. The Empire Strikes Back 12.67 mentions7. Alien 12.50 mentions8. 2001: A … Continue reading Avocado Sight & Sound: Year VIII results
Going to do something a little different this week. Going to profile a wrestler most of you probably don’t know about. His name was Eddy Steinblock. He was a German wrestler who was champion of European Professional Wrestling. In fact … Continue reading The Weekly Wrestling Thread Profiles Eddy Steinblock
From a wrestling standpoint, it was a great week. The Royal Rumble was great, featuring the returns of Andrade, Naomi, and Liv Morgan, the debut of Jade Cargill, and Jordynne Grace’s instantly iconic appearance. On free TV, we had amazing matches (Bryan Danielson vs. Yuji Nagata, FTR and Daniel Garcia vs. House of Black, Gunther vs. Kofi Kingston, etc.). We also got the continuing adventures of supreme hater Drew McIntyre and it’s been amazing. If you just focused on what was on-screen, it was a great week. But then there’s the Vince situation and it cast a pitch black cloud … Continue reading The Weekly Wrestling Thread Is Not Feeling It This Week
It was a huge week for wrestling, with the biggest news story being Monday Night Raw going to Netflix. There had been speculation that Raw would head to streaming but it was Amazon Prime that received the bulk of the … Continue reading The Weekly Wrestling Thread Is Going to Be on Netflix
This past week, we had yet another very good New Japan event, Battle in the Valley 2024. Here’s my ranking of the matches: The next few Weekly Wrestling Threads are going to be a bit barebones because I’m running the … Continue reading The Weekly Wrestling Thread Battles in the Valley
It’s that time of the year again, where I harangue everyone until they throw together a top 10 movies list. Here’s the rules: 1.) Your ballot can only contain 10 titles; no more, no less.2.) That being said, if you want to put a while series down, you can. However, it won’t count as a whole. You can put the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy down but each individual film will only get .33 points.3.) Twin Peaks: The Return is not a movie but fuck it, I give up. You can vote for any TV miniseries you want. Just no actual TV shows … Continue reading Avocado Sight & Sound: Year VIII
Scott’s desire to tell people what movies to watch knows no bounds. He’s decided to create a series on here devoted to profiling directors and creating guides to their films. This week’s director is… Christopher Nolan. Highly recommended: Following, Memento, … Continue reading Director Profile: Christopher Nolan
