Welcome to this review of this past Friday’s episode of Friday Night Smackdown, right here on Nerdly. Let’s see what went down on this week’s show!
Match #1: Queen of the Ring Quarterfinal Match – Bianca Belair def. Tiffany Stratton The following is courtesy of wwe.com:
The Est took on The Center of the Universe in a magnificent showdown for the chance to move on in the Queen of the Ring Tournament. Bianca Belair seemed to have tweaked her knee in the early going but found the resolve to fight through the pain. Stratton locked on to Belair’s injured knee, using The Est’s braids to take Belair down before sending her crashing knee first into the ring steps. Belair tried for the Kod but Stratton was able to evade it as Belair’s knees gave out. Stratton used her wits to her advantage, distracting the...
Match #1: Queen of the Ring Quarterfinal Match – Bianca Belair def. Tiffany Stratton The following is courtesy of wwe.com:
The Est took on The Center of the Universe in a magnificent showdown for the chance to move on in the Queen of the Ring Tournament. Bianca Belair seemed to have tweaked her knee in the early going but found the resolve to fight through the pain. Stratton locked on to Belair’s injured knee, using The Est’s braids to take Belair down before sending her crashing knee first into the ring steps. Belair tried for the Kod but Stratton was able to evade it as Belair’s knees gave out. Stratton used her wits to her advantage, distracting the...
- 5/20/2024
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
Welcome to this review of this past Friday’s episode of Friday Night Smackdown, right here on Nerdly. Let’s see what went down on this week’s show!
Match #1: Pretty Deadly def. Randy Orton & Kevin Owens The following is courtesy of wwe.com:
Just one week before their Triple Threat Match with United States Champion Logan Paul at WrestleMania, Randy Orton and Kevin Owens teamed up once again, this time facing Pretty Deadly. Just as Ko and Orton were rolling, Paul slithered from underneath the ring, hitting Ko in the jaw with the brass knuckles and allowing Pretty Deadly to capture the victory.
My Score: 2 out of 5 Match #2: Austin Theory & Grayson Waller def. The Street Profits The following is courtesy of wwe.com:
The Street Profits opened the match like a house on fire as Angelo Dawkins sent Grayson Waller flying into the announce table with a massive tackle.
Match #1: Pretty Deadly def. Randy Orton & Kevin Owens The following is courtesy of wwe.com:
Just one week before their Triple Threat Match with United States Champion Logan Paul at WrestleMania, Randy Orton and Kevin Owens teamed up once again, this time facing Pretty Deadly. Just as Ko and Orton were rolling, Paul slithered from underneath the ring, hitting Ko in the jaw with the brass knuckles and allowing Pretty Deadly to capture the victory.
My Score: 2 out of 5 Match #2: Austin Theory & Grayson Waller def. The Street Profits The following is courtesy of wwe.com:
The Street Profits opened the match like a house on fire as Angelo Dawkins sent Grayson Waller flying into the announce table with a massive tackle.
- 4/1/2024
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
Welcome to this review of this past Friday’s episode of Friday Night Smackdown, right here on Nerdly. Let’s see what went down on this week’s show!
Match #1: Legado del Fantasma def. The Lwo The following is courtesy of wwe.com:
Angel and Berto are one step closer to realizing their WrestleMania dreams as they defeated Joaquin Wilde and Cruz Del Toro in a WrestleMania Xl Tag Team Championship Qualifying Match. Angel and Berto brought the fight right to The Lwo, including throwing Del Toro off the top rope in exhilarating fashion. Del Toro fought hard and tagged in the high-flying Wilde, a move that turned the tide for a short time. Legado del Fantasma were able to isolate Wilde in the ring before hitting him with a stunning press slam into a kick right to the stomach, winning them the match.
My Score: 2.5 out of 5 Match #2: Randy Orton def.
Match #1: Legado del Fantasma def. The Lwo The following is courtesy of wwe.com:
Angel and Berto are one step closer to realizing their WrestleMania dreams as they defeated Joaquin Wilde and Cruz Del Toro in a WrestleMania Xl Tag Team Championship Qualifying Match. Angel and Berto brought the fight right to The Lwo, including throwing Del Toro off the top rope in exhilarating fashion. Del Toro fought hard and tagged in the high-flying Wilde, a move that turned the tide for a short time. Legado del Fantasma were able to isolate Wilde in the ring before hitting him with a stunning press slam into a kick right to the stomach, winning them the match.
My Score: 2.5 out of 5 Match #2: Randy Orton def.
- 3/18/2024
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
Welcome to this review of this past Friday’s episode of Friday Night Smackdown, right here on Nerdly. Let’s see what went down on this week’s episode!
Match #1: Kevin Owens def. Austin Theory The following is courtesy of wwe.com:
In a reversal of fortunes, the same plan that Logan Paul executed against Kevin Owens at Royal Rumble backfired on the United States Champion this time. As Ko was looking strong against Theory, Paul, providing guest commentary, tossed the 150 million-hit man a pair of brass knuckles. Owens was able to snatch the weapon from Theory’s hand, however, nailing the former U.S. Champion square in the jaw. This time the referee did not see the infraction, allowing Owens to walk away with the victory.
My Score: 3 out of 5 Match #2: Fatal 4-Way Tag Team Qualifier Match – Pete Dunne & Tyler Bate def. Pretty Deadly, The Lwo and...
Match #1: Kevin Owens def. Austin Theory The following is courtesy of wwe.com:
In a reversal of fortunes, the same plan that Logan Paul executed against Kevin Owens at Royal Rumble backfired on the United States Champion this time. As Ko was looking strong against Theory, Paul, providing guest commentary, tossed the 150 million-hit man a pair of brass knuckles. Owens was able to snatch the weapon from Theory’s hand, however, nailing the former U.S. Champion square in the jaw. This time the referee did not see the infraction, allowing Owens to walk away with the victory.
My Score: 3 out of 5 Match #2: Fatal 4-Way Tag Team Qualifier Match – Pete Dunne & Tyler Bate def. Pretty Deadly, The Lwo and...
- 2/5/2024
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
Sheron Dayoc, an alumnus of Sundance Institute, Asian Film Academy, and Next Masters Tokyo, honed his craft by directing documentaries including The Asian Pitch winner, A Weaver's Tale (2009). His debut narrative feature Halaw won awards at Berlinale and Asia Pacific Screen Awards, and The Crescent Rising won the Best Documentary at Busan. Women of the Weeping River (2016) won the Best Picture, Best Actress, and Best Supporting Actor at QCinema and won the Best Picture, Best Direction, Best Supporting Actress, Best Screenplay, Best Cinematography, and Best Editing at Gaward Urian Awards.
On the occasion of his presence at Qcinema and the screening of his latest work, “The Gospel of the Beast” screening in Tokyo, we speak with him about his collaboration with Arden Rod Condez and Sonny Calvento, the 7 years it took him to follow up on his previous film, how violence is created and the real events behind the story,...
On the occasion of his presence at Qcinema and the screening of his latest work, “The Gospel of the Beast” screening in Tokyo, we speak with him about his collaboration with Arden Rod Condez and Sonny Calvento, the 7 years it took him to follow up on his previous film, how violence is created and the real events behind the story,...
- 11/26/2023
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
From the director's statement: A few months before I began developing this film project, I went back home to Zamboanga for a vacation and casually met with my friends and relatives. But one afternoon, much to my surprise, someone close to my family shared his deep, dark secret. According to him, it all started when he accidentally killed his high school classmate during a fight. He was able to run away, only to eventually be trapped in the world of the syndicate. I was startled to hear this. I have known this man all my life as someone who is caring and loving. I never would have thought that he had experienced such things. After that long conversation, we never spoke about it again. Thus began Sheron Dayoc's trip towards “Gospel of the Beast”, seven years after his previous feature, the multi-awarded “Women of the Weeping River”.
The Gospel...
The Gospel...
- 10/28/2023
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
The recent retrospective of Juliet Berto’s acting work at the Brooklyn Academy of Music presents an artist who occupied the forefront of both formal and ideological reimaginings of the medium during her lifetime. An icon of the French New Wave for her roles in landmark films by Jacques Rivette and Jean-Luc Godard, she also regularly lent her presence to works of radical leftist filmmaking from directors such as Robert Kramer and Marin Karmitz. Neige, Berto’s 1981 directorial debut made in collaboration with her partner Jean-Henri Roger, bears the influence of these artists and synthesizes them into something entirely its own, a playful and unpretentious work that nonetheless retains a fierce political anger.
The title of the film—which translates to Snow in English—refers to heroin, the drug around which much of the plot revolves. Berto stars as Anita, a bartender in Paris’s racy Pigalle district whose committed...
The title of the film—which translates to Snow in English—refers to heroin, the drug around which much of the plot revolves. Berto stars as Anita, a bartender in Paris’s racy Pigalle district whose committed...
- 6/18/2023
- by Brad Hanford
- Slant Magazine
Defiance's second season just gets better and better. Here's Billy's review of If You Could See Her Through My Eyes...
This review contains spoilers.
2.7 If You Could See Her Through My Eyes
Is it me, or did Defiance flirt this week with being somewhat soap-opera at times? Possibly. But that didn’t stop it being both entertaining and divisive in equal measure.
What was slightly jarring was that plots that have run at full steam since the start of the season were put on hold, with no Pottinger, Tommy or Berlin this week. With them out of the picture there was plenty of room to run what was essentially a parallel Tarr story, with both Datak and Alak presented with their own challenges.
Datak’s world gets tuned upside down when Jalina, a ‘hand maiden’ in the Tarr household dies in the doorway of his swanky shipping container. The...
This review contains spoilers.
2.7 If You Could See Her Through My Eyes
Is it me, or did Defiance flirt this week with being somewhat soap-opera at times? Possibly. But that didn’t stop it being both entertaining and divisive in equal measure.
What was slightly jarring was that plots that have run at full steam since the start of the season were put on hold, with no Pottinger, Tommy or Berlin this week. With them out of the picture there was plenty of room to run what was essentially a parallel Tarr story, with both Datak and Alak presented with their own challenges.
Datak’s world gets tuned upside down when Jalina, a ‘hand maiden’ in the Tarr household dies in the doorway of his swanky shipping container. The...
- 8/3/2014
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
This week's Defiance is Billy's favourite so far this season. Read his review of This Woman's Work, here...
Review
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2.6 This Woman's Work
So many shows these days are predictable, possibly because the people writing them are broiled in the same history of TV drama, and any good idea is often worth a rehash. Yet that serves only to make a totally unexpected turn of events sweeter when they turn up. This episode of Defiance has one of those, so if you’ve not watched it I’d skip this review until you’ve experienced it.
I mention that part last, but from the outset This Woman’s Work moved up a gear from the previous stories in this season, and immediately became my season favourite. It didn’t look that way when it started with Tommy, a character I’ve not cared for much this season,...
Review
This review contains spoilers.
2.6 This Woman's Work
So many shows these days are predictable, possibly because the people writing them are broiled in the same history of TV drama, and any good idea is often worth a rehash. Yet that serves only to make a totally unexpected turn of events sweeter when they turn up. This episode of Defiance has one of those, so if you’ve not watched it I’d skip this review until you’ve experienced it.
I mention that part last, but from the outset This Woman’s Work moved up a gear from the previous stories in this season, and immediately became my season favourite. It didn’t look that way when it started with Tommy, a character I’ve not cared for much this season,...
- 7/27/2014
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
While no single episode of Defiance has been outstanding so far this season, the seeds are being satisfyingly sown for its future...
Review
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2.5 Put The Damage On
There were lots of things to like in this episode, not least the major part played by Doc Yewll, one of Defiance's more interesting characters.
So far I’ve not been a big fan of the subplot where Amanda becomes a drug addict, but here it found a place to thrive, when she started to imagine that the man who raped her had come back to terrorise her. This coincides with the reappearance of an old flame of the Doc’s, and while these two things seem at the time entirely unrelated, they’re actually importantly connected.
In retrospect, you’re given a number of important clues about the reality of Amanda’s encounter with the past in that sequence.
Review
This review contains spoilers.
2.5 Put The Damage On
There were lots of things to like in this episode, not least the major part played by Doc Yewll, one of Defiance's more interesting characters.
So far I’ve not been a big fan of the subplot where Amanda becomes a drug addict, but here it found a place to thrive, when she started to imagine that the man who raped her had come back to terrorise her. This coincides with the reappearance of an old flame of the Doc’s, and while these two things seem at the time entirely unrelated, they’re actually importantly connected.
In retrospect, you’re given a number of important clues about the reality of Amanda’s encounter with the past in that sequence.
- 7/20/2014
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
After a bumpy start, Defiance is quickly on track towards an interesting second season. Here's Billy's review...
Review
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2.2 In My Secret Life
My disenchantment with the opening episode of Defiance was soon forgotten by this significantly better story, In My Secret Life. The theme of all the shenanigans packed into these forty-two minutes, was that we all have lives we think are secret, but they rarely are completely.
The return of Nolan and Irisa coincides with a terrorist incident, though oddly nobody points out any potential connection. That’s good, because really there isn’t any. This has more to do with Tarrs, and their organised crime troubles, than anything Nolan should be concerning himself. But, like a moth to a flame, he’s drawn into leading the investigation with the excuse of getting Irisa out of E-Rep custody.
There were plenty of things to like as this story unfolded,...
Review
This review contains spoilers.
2.2 In My Secret Life
My disenchantment with the opening episode of Defiance was soon forgotten by this significantly better story, In My Secret Life. The theme of all the shenanigans packed into these forty-two minutes, was that we all have lives we think are secret, but they rarely are completely.
The return of Nolan and Irisa coincides with a terrorist incident, though oddly nobody points out any potential connection. That’s good, because really there isn’t any. This has more to do with Tarrs, and their organised crime troubles, than anything Nolan should be concerning himself. But, like a moth to a flame, he’s drawn into leading the investigation with the excuse of getting Irisa out of E-Rep custody.
There were plenty of things to like as this story unfolded,...
- 6/27/2014
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
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