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Marvel’s Daredevil premieres on Netflix today, and you should care more about that than Avengers: Age of Ultron out next month, because Daredevil is the greatest hero in Marvel Comics. More
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Barry Thompson lives in Boston. He has written a whole bunch for several online and print publications, including the Boston Phoenix (RIP). His favorite superhero is Daredevil and he has not eaten a hamburger in 20 years.
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Sunday night, Roman Reigns walked into San Francisco’s Levi’s Stadium as the most clearly screwed challenger for the World Title in Wrestlemania history. He left the most interesting character in the WWE. More
For the second consecutive year, wrestling fans across the globe hoped Daniel Bryan would emerge victorious at the Royal Rumble, and go on to battle the heavyweight champion of the world at Wrestlemania. Indeed, the unmatched technical prowess and daring-do of the erstwhile “American Dragon” against the avalanche of brute force provided by the rightly nicknamed “Beast Incarnate” Brock Lesnar would’ve made an exceptional main event at the so-called grandest stage of ‘em all. More
Pro wrestling and rock ‘n’ roll have more in common than the snootier denizens of both mediums would care to admit, I’d wager. Both exist on the backs of a small army of larger-than-life personalities who are all, out of necessity, on tour forever. In the Reagan-era, the individual daily cocaine regimens of both WWF champions and hair metal headliners could kill a full-grown walrus. And viewed from the right angle, their hierarchies look kind of the same. More
There’s something troubling to be said about the state of WWE when NXT – billed as a training ground promotion for would-be future stars – completely blew “Tables, Ladders and Chairs” out of the water, off the top of a cage, and through nine tables with “Takeover: R Evolution” on Thursday. Sami Zayn’s ousting of Adrian Neville as the NXT champ wasn’t just a better technical match than nearly everything WWE threw at Cleveland last night, it had stakes and characters with well-developed motivations. The same can only be said for maybe 40% of “TLC 2014.” I don’t think anybody expected it to top “Survivor Series.” Sting can only make his first appearance once, after all. But with the exception of the Intercontinental Title match and a few other epic morsels, a lot of this PPV felt tossed together to use up time. More
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This review was written in response to a submission to BDCwire’s “Review Anything August” campaign. The opinions in this review are those solely of the author and not of BDCwire as a publication. Stay tuned to BDCwire for more reviews from this feature. More
This review was written in response to a submission to BDCwire’s “Review Anything August” campaign. The opinions in this review are those solely of the author and not of BDCwire as a publication. Stay tuned to BDCwire for more reviews from this feature. More
This review was written in response to a submission to BDCwire’s “Review Anything August” campaign. The opinions in this review are those solely of the author and not of BDCwire as a publication. Stay tuned to BDCwire for more reviews from this feature. More