Lorne Malvo

Well, it's happened again. No explanation, no warning, just woke up to find I haven't been paid and yet again the director is off not picking his phone up. The place is a joke.

I can't judge you too harshly, I still watch Home & Away now and again.

You're alright, thanks.

I absolutely hated him back when I was a smark teenager. Thought he was an overrated overpushed little shit. I remember nearly crying when he beat Matt Hardy V1 for the Cruiser title on an episode of Smackdown. I'm not as stupid as I used to be and now recognise he's great with the right person, very good with most people and very very rarely has a stinker, and his longevity is incredible. The fact he's still going out there and wrestling on a weekly basis now when it looked like he was one match away from a heart attack in 2006 is crazy. I don't like to hold all the shit angles and storylines he's been in against him, as if we did that then 90% of wrestlers would be guilty too. But in saying that, he really does have more wrestlecrap against his name than most. If I had to compile an all-time top wrestlers list he'd be in the upper-card along with someone like Jericho, but doesn't break into the top tier for me.

I bet Lovely Ann was behind that ad campaign.

Stings AEW run was just banger after banger wasn't it? Not long after this there was a Sting/Darby/Punk vs MJF/FTR 6-man tag which was tremendous too, with Punk wearing Surfer Sting facepaint.

It has to be shoot names. We all learned our lesson from shouting Carbomb during our UKFF jaunt to Belfast.

It's a good idea in theory - thank you for the suggestion. However as far as I can recall there's no 'continue watching' on the Roku app - I watched All Out 2019 in two sittings and had to re-scroll through all the PPVs to find it again. It's not the best app in the world, it's fair to say.

I think I'm back up and running with this. We've got a Chromecast at work - not sure why, as we never have the TV on - but I've been told I can have it, so provided it works okay with my TV I should be okay to watch Dynamite S01E01 later. It's a bit of a rigmarole but it's the only option for now. Why I can't just access these episode on the Roku app I don't know.

This has done me. Bravo.

You'd get less for murder! (I know this doesn't make sense)

A bit obsessed with this at the moment;

I used to love Christians entrance in the 'peeps' era. The theme music, him climbing the buckle and doing his chest-slap thing, pulling the hood up and putting his hand above his eyes to get a better view of his peeps. All good stuff.

One day soon Cody Rhodes is going to turn up to Raw and they're going to give him a watch, kick him in the butt and say 'hey, a computer took your place daddy'.

I've got enough vitriol in me for both, thanks. Ed Sheeran's statement about this is possibly the most spineless cowardly centrist bullshit I've seen since this conflict started. Just absolute white noise. Bad prick.

There's a lesson to be learned there about talking shit about something you haven't seen. Won't do it again. Anyway, Clayface was shit wasn't it!

Is it not? My bad. I should say I've not actually seen it myself, but I've seen a lot of reviews of it that compare it to True Detective. Lazy journalism based on it having two leads?

It might not be 'Snyder bros' per se but come on. It's 2026, there's a huge part of society that are giving it the 'I don't want to watch a film about a strong girl' act. Just look online for more than 5 seconds. Unfortunately, every normal thinking person is also sick to the back teeth of superhero movies, so while they'll still turn up for your Super and Spidermans the lesser knowns just make them roll their eyes and go 'another one?!' Those two elements together made the perfect ingredient for Supergirl being a bomb. I don't know why they bothered. It was always going to fail in this climate. Lanterns is doing well because people don't have to get off their arse to watch it and it actually offers a fresh take on the superhero thing. I personally have no interest in 'what if True Detective but super powers?' but a lot of people obviously like it so fair play to them, they've found a take that works.

I think you're all underselling him a bit here to be fair. He was absolute class in Beer Money and during his heel title run. I loved that title reign too, a proper old school 'barely escaping with the title by the skin of his teeth' reign. Never set the world on fire in the ring but he was solid enough and wrestled a style that didn't require him to. He probably went to WWE a bit too late to really do that much there, but I think it's unfair to say he was only over because of theme songs and catchphrases.

I'll be honest, I completely forgot about that too. And in looking it up, The Craft also had a 2020 sequel come out! Perfectly obvious now that the reason they're doing Practical Magic 2 is because every other sodding witches movie has had a sequel years after the fact.

I think we're at the point now where anything that gets mentioned in the pub in a 'remember this film?' way is fair game for a legacy sequel. They're doing a Days Of Thunder sequel! I liked Days of Thunder but at no point since seeing that film have I thought 'I'd love to know what Cole Trickle is up to now'. It's a Tom Cruise movie so chances are it'll still be good, but I'd much rather everyone put their time, effort and money into something original.

Some films just don't need a legacy sequel. Now this has come out I see a lot of talk about the original being some kind of cult classic, but I genuinely never hear anyone talking about it. Certainly not as much as the superior witchcraft films, Hocus Pocus and The Craft.

You know how when you finally realise something that is painfully obvious to everyone else and it make you feel incredibly stupid? This one is even worse than the 'preheating your oven' fiasco. TIL that when Americans say they are going to the fast food outfit 'Chick filet', they are talking about Chick-fil-A, because it's a play on words and that is how that is meant to be pronounced. I'm only aware of this because I told someone earlier that the nearest Tim Hortons is closing down 'to be replaced with a chick filla?!' and he laughed at me for a good 2 minutes.

Those early Nakamura / Roode entrances were sensational but I do think those two entrances, along with Balor's, were the start of WWE wanting to micro-manage and choreograph every wrestlers entrance to within an inch of its life which is one of the (many) reasons WWE is unwatchable now.

Jimmy Corkhill doubling up as Rick Stein there.