Zac Efron's first day in a pro wrestling ring went like that of many rookies: He had his mettle tested by “running the ropes,” going from side to side and bouncing off the ring ropes in punishing ...

"The Iron Claw," an A24 film released late last year, tells the story of the Von Erichs, a family of professional wrestlers who suffered tragic ends under the influence of a dictatorial patriarch and ...

TEXAS, USA — Heavy is the poison drip of generational expectation in “The Iron Claw,” a tragedy of cosmic proportions in which family curses are depicted as contagions and the climax is a prolonged ...

Filmmaker Sean Durkin is interested in exploring the dynamics of dysfunctional families, particularly ones with imposing, controlling or otherwise distrustful father figures. In his 2011 directorial ...

The Iron Claw releases in theaters December 22. Interviews conducted by Matt Fowler and Amelia Emberwing. There’s a nebulous term in the world of professional wrestling to describe the unspoken ...

Editor’s Note: Murjani Rawls is a ten-year culture editor, writer, and critic who has worked in places like DraftKings Network/Vox Media, The Root, and Substream Magazine. He is a member of the ...

Wrestling obsessives often struggle to convey the gravity of a certain match or storyline to normies. Casuals — or the otherwise heretofore uninterested — are nevertheless usually sucked in by the ...

A new movie starring Zac Efron and “The Bear” actor Jeremy Allen White is based on the true story of the Von Erich wrestling family, including a tragic beginning in Upstate New York. The first trailer ...

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