Xmastime Movie Picks

My favorite wrestler when I was a kid, right up until the moment I realized it was fake and stopped giving a shit, was Kevin Von Erich so of course I will be watching this movie about his incredibly troubled wrestling dynasty family:

Unlike so many “based on a true story” movie offerings aiming for the Oscars this time of year — you know, the type of biopic that resorts to historical lily gilding and sometimes outright fictionalizes the lives of its subjects to pump up the prestige drama — writer-director Sean Durkin’s A24 wrestling tragedy, The Iron Claw, (which arrives in theaters December 22) takes notable effort to lessen the concussive impact of its real-life source material: the incredibly sad saga of the Von Erich family, the so-called “Kennedys of wrestling.”

Then again I still haven't gotten off my ass to watch Oppenheimer after yammering about it for fucking weeks, so who knows I guess.