Dark Match had its world première at Fantasia 2024; first published by SciFiNow Pro wrestling is a peculiarly paradoxical art. On the one hand it is all showmanship and fakery, its bouts choreographed, its punches held, its outcomes fixed; while on the other hand, its practitioners have the kind of genuine talent and toughness which…
“I’m just a movie guy, I don’t know much about sports,” says old video store clerk Hank of the coming basketball game between local lovable losers the Warriors and LA’s all-star the Lakers, where the outcome seems a foregone conclusion (“we definitely cannot beat LA”). He then launches into a speech on the wish-fulfilment paradigms provided…
Sonja O’Hara’s Mid-Century opens in the era of its title – 1963, to be precise – with a montage of well-dressed housewives cleaning in their homes. The setting is the suburbia of (fictional) Mandarin, California, whose houses, designed by local architect Frederick Banner (Stephen Lang) in the late Fifties, are the aspirational envy of the…