Dillon's Being a Horseman DVD held back by gimmicks
The approach taken with Being a Horseman starring J.J. Dillon is very different from other professional wrestling documentaries. The best way to explain it is probably how J.J. Dillon himself describes a typical Jim Crockett Promotions wrestling card, which is that you slowly build up to the main event. The idea is you keep the interest of the viewer by enticing them with tantalizing bits of information to keep their attention until you get to the parts that they bought their ticket to see the show for.
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Return To The Cobo a photographic treasure trove
The 240 pages of This Saturday Night II: Return To The Cobo take the reader on an amazing multi-year photographic journey through The Sheik's home turf, Big Time Wrestling, in and around Detroit.
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Edge DVD gutsy and honest
For anyone wondering about what to expect from the new WWE DVD release, You Think You Know Me? The Story of Edge, in it Edge faces all the controversial aspects of his career and does not in any way, shape, or form try to whitewash over any of it.
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Koloff's book more historical than autobiographical
The title of Nikita Koloff's autobiography -- NIKITA: A Tale of the Ring and Redemption -- is a bit misleading, mainly because the "redemption" aspect never really shows up, at least in the way of typical wrestling redemptions over drugs or alcohol. It indirectly refers to his personal redemption when he became a devout Christian as was the focus of Koloff's previous book, Breaking the Chains.
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New Rock DVD excellent, though revisionist
Finally ... The Rock has come back to WWE DVD ... with an excellent documentary that does put boots to asses.
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Kayfabe's Over Babyface and Effective Heel DVD flawed
The new DVD from Kayfabe Commentaries, Wrestling's Most ... Over Babyface and Effective Heel, is a great idea in theory, executed well, but left me wanting. The main flaw is not even the fan choices for the Top 5 heroes and villains through the years, which are understandably skewed toward more recent wrestlers. I can live with that. But shouldn't the goal of a DVD like this be to hunt down the right people to talk about the selections?
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$5 Wrestling series a funny take on weirdness of armory circuit matches
Attempting to describe Highspots.com's ongoing DVD/download series "$5 Wrestling" is like trying to sum up "Mystery Science Theater 3000" to someone who's never seen or heard of that campy, sardonic sci-fi series. Take away the silly, rubber movie monsters and outer space setting and the two are very much alike.
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Cornette re-books WWE in 1997 for new DVD
When looking through the archives of World Wrestling Entertainment, it is without doubt that the year 1997 is one of the most important in its illustrious history. During this period, WWE was a place where things were rapidly changing, the rise of "Stone Cold" Steve Austin, the situation with Shawn Michaels and Bret Hart which led up to Montreal and the ECW Invasion were just a few factors which all contributed to WWE finally moving in the right direction to once again overtake WCW in the Monday Night ratings war. So here comes Timeline: WWE - 1997 - Jim Cornette to reconsider the big year.
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Season's Readings: Wrestling books for kids reviewed
During the last week before Christmas, going to the Wal-Mart is like being in WCW's World War III multi-ring battle royal -- over-crowded, violent, and ultimately not worth the time spent. Fortunately, the book section of the store is generally empty of the hordes of shoppers gone wild, and a place where one can find quiet refuge. And some last-minute stocking stuffers for the young wrestling fans in your family.
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Austin DVD pretty damn good
When I set out to review the WWE's latest DVD release on Stone Cold Steve Austin I wasn't really sure what to expect because I had been disappointed by some of the past WWE releases. It always seemed liked they were missing something. The interviews would be too short, there would be few promos or vignettes, or the majority of matches offered were all ones that had appeared on a number of other WWE releases. So with the WWE promoting this DVD as the "Definitive Steve Austin Biography"
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