Review: Beyond The Mat
"Beyond the Mat" is the wrestling documentary that Vince McMahon has barred from advertising on his World Wrestling Federation programs. Why? ...
Chicago Sun-Times - Roger Ebert - 03/17/00
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Idols to Look Down On, Sometimes
The NY Times review of Beyond the Mat, a Barry W. Blaustein film starring Barry W. Blaustein and Jake "The Snake" Roberts. ...
The New York Times - Elvis Mitchell - 03/17/00
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Barry Blaustein's Beyond the Mat
Ok, I admit it I like pro-wrestling. Ever since I was a kid, when I first caught a glimpse of Sgt. Slaughter and Andre the Giant (on Vince McMahon ...
CultureDose.net - Mike Bracken
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Documentary answers the bell
Strange as it may seem, there actually once was a time when people earnestly debated whether wrestling was real or fake. ...
Canoe.ca - STEVE TILLEY - 06/30/00
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BBC - Films - review - Beyond the Mat
Documentary about the world of American Wrestling On the whole, Hollywood superstars have - to a greater or lesser extent - become successful due ...
BBC - Michael Thomson - 06/29/00
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Review: BEYOND THE MAT
You don't have to be a wrestling fan to enjoy screenwriter Barry Blaustein's directing debut, a behind-the-scenes documentary that manages to be ...
TV Guide - Maitland McDonagh
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Wrestling with world of sports
Crazy wrestling fan Barry Blaustein was committed. Not the locked-up kind but the obsessive, compulsive kind. Why? The Saturday Night Live writer ...
Canoe.ca - BOB THOMPSON - 06/16/00
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Review: Beyond the Mat
Pro wrestling is fake, right? Absolutely. The fights are choreographed, the winners are predetermined, and everything that happens is carefully ...
FilmCritic.com - Christopher Null
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Review: Beyond the Mat (documentary)
Much was made of the fact that World Wrestling Federation president Vince McMahon didn't want ads for Barry W. Blaustein's documentary "Beyond the ...
EricDSnider.com - Eric D. Snider
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BEYOND THE MAT Film Review
An attempt to humanize a profession that relies on garish performances, director Barry Blaustein's "Beyond the Mat" thoroughly evaluates the ...
Boxoffice Online - Annlee Ellingson
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Review: Beyond The Mat
If ever there was a sign of the coming Apocalypse, it would be the popularity explosion of professional "wrestling." For years relegated to the ...
Film Threat - Merle Bertrand - 03/19/00
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Review: Beyond The Mat
For those of us for whom wrestling means memories of Kendo Nagasaki grappling in front of salivating grannies on a rainy Saturday afternoon, ...
Empire Online - Adam Smith
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Review: Beyond the Mat (2000)
Starring: Terry Funk, Mick "Mankind" Foley, Jake "The Snake" Roberts, Vince McMahon, Vicki Funk, Stacey Funk, Brandee Funk, Collette Foley, ...
rec.arts.movies.reviews - Rose 'Bams' Cooper - 03/19/00
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Review: Beyond The Mat (1999)
Directed by Barry W Blaustein. Screenplay by Blaustein. Starring Terry Funk, Mick Foley, Jake Roberts. Running time: 101 minutes. ...
rec.arts.movies.reviews - Shannon Patrick Sullivan - 07/12/00
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Review: Beyond the Mat (2000)
There is one particularly thought-provoking moment in the new professional wrestling documentary Beyond the Mat. The setting is just before a ...
rec.arts.movies.reviews - Jon Popick - 03/17/00
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Review: Beyond the Mat (1999)
There are two things I dislike more than anything: rap and wrestling. Well, at least my feelings of rap were true ten years ago. ...
rec.arts.movies.reviews - Jerry Saravia - 02/10/03
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Review: Beyond the Mat (1999)
Former Denver Bronco Darrin Drozdov had an unusual talent: the ability to vomit on command. That might not have been his ticket to a job in ...
rec.arts.movies.reviews - James Sanford - 05/12/00
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Review: Beyond the Mat (2000)
What do you get when you blend grand opera, theater of the absurd and gladiators? The World Wrestling Federation, of course. ...
rec.arts.movies.reviews - Steve Rhodes - 03/11/00
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Review: Beyond the Mat (2000)
Writer/director Barry Blaustein received a Director's Guild of America documentary nomination for his enthusiastic, behind-the-scenes examination ...
rec.arts.movies.reviews - Susan Granger - 03/19/00
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Inside Wrestling At Its Best!
"The movie that Vince does not want you to see" is arguably the best piece of film seen anywhere. The movie goes beyong what you think and know. ...
Boxoffice Online - CA
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Review: Beyond the Mat
Barry Blaustein is a comic screenwriter, best known for developing Eddie Murphy's resume of quirky screen characters. ...
Palo Alto Online - Jeanne Aufmuth
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Who are those masked men?
You don't have to be a wrestling fan to enjoy screenwriter Barry Blaustein's directing debut, a behind-the-scenes documentary that manages to be ...
TV Guide - Maitland McDonagh
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Review: Beyond the Mat
This is the best documentary since "Hoop Dreams," and it is not a coincidence that it, too, is about sports. That means that it is about money, ...
Common Sense Media - Nell Minow
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Review: BEYOND THE MAT
An attempt to humanize a profession that relies on garish performances, director Barry Blaustein's "Beyond the Mat" thoroughly evaluates the ...
Boxoffice Online - Annlee Ellingson
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