Empire Australasia

Wrestling moves

FIGHTING WITH MY FAMILY from their real-life counterparts

STEPHEN MERCHANT’S is a fun, compelling, feel-good comedy-drama that tells the story of the Knights, a working-class, wrestling-obsessed family in Norwich, and how their daughter Saraya made it all the way to the bright lights of big-time wrestling in the WWE — titles, big crowds, The Rock and all. If the story sounds familiar, it’s because the film was inspired by a 2012 Channel 4 documentary of the same

You’re reading a preview, subscribe to read more.

More from Empire Australasia

Empire Australasia2 min read
Comment
The Suicide Squad (Empire, December) looks very male and very white. It will be interesting to give it the once-over with the Bechdel-Wallace test and view the film through the lens of diversity. ANN, NUGENT, TAS From what we could see, the Squad
Empire Australasia3 min read
No./ 12 When Time Travel Gets Trippy
The idea for Synchronic , the fourth film from filmmaker team Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead, first began germinating in 2015. “Apparently, physicists are pretty well decided that time is not linear in any particular way,” Moorhead explains. “It’s
Empire Australasia3 min read
No./ 9 Inside Cinema’s Most Intense Birth Scene Ever
Pieces Of A Woman , a story of a home birth that undergoes complications, originated as a play in Poland. On stage, the birth sequence was “45 minutes long,” says Hungarian director Kornél Mundruczó. “It was kind of like when you have a beautiful pai

Related Books & Audiobooks