Zac Efron's first day in a pro wrestling ring went like that of many rookies: He had his mettle tested by “running the ropes,” going from side to side and bouncing off the ring ropes in punishing ...

I love professional wrestling. I grew up watching it as a kid, kind of fell off watching it in the PG era of WWE, and got back into it again with AEW. That said, I’d still love to see more movies ...

The Iron Claw releases in theaters December 22. Interviews conducted by Matt Fowler and Amelia Emberwing. There’s a nebulous term in the world of professional wrestling to describe the unspoken ...

Spoiler alert: We're breaking down plot points in Zac Efron's new movie "The Iron Claw" (streaming on Max now). Beware if you haven't seen it yet. Movie fans know about Dwayne “The Rock" Johnson, Dave ...

"The Iron Claw," an A24 film released late last year, tells the story of the Von Erichs, a family of professional wrestlers who suffered tragic ends under the influence of a dictatorial patriarch and ...

Kevin Von Erich (Zac Efron) hits a dropkick on The Sheik (Chavo Guerro) in "The Iron Claw." Credit: A24 Sean Durkin knows his way around the "squared circle." As a lifelong wrestling fan, he ...

Jeremy Allen White, Harris Dickinson, Stanley Simons, Maura Tierney, Lily James, and Holt McCallany fill out one of the year's best ensemble casts. Scholars of wrestling’s pre-WWF history might see ...

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TEXAS, USA — Heavy is the poison drip of generational expectation in “The Iron Claw,” a tragedy of cosmic proportions in which family curses are depicted as contagions and the climax is a prolonged ...

The story of the Von Erich pro-wrestling dynasty is the stuff of legends, or, as filmmaker Sean Durkin sees it, a Greek tragedy of fathers and sons. A close-knit wrestling clan of five Texas brothers ...