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Two Time WWE Hall of Famer and Five Time WCW World Heavyweight Champion, Booker T and Queen Sharmell Hoffman' Reality of Wrestling team up with filmmakers Deon Taylor and Roxanne Taylor for BeWoke.Vote.

Wrestling Legend, Booker T and Queen Sharmell's Reality of Wrestling will be apart of the BeWoke.Vote Rep Your City event in Texas City, Tx.

BeWoke.Vote  a nonpartisan initiative co-founded by Director Deon Taylor (Fatale, Black and Blue and The Intruder), Producer Roxanne Avent Taylor and Reality of Wrestling (ROW) allowing this partnership to put on the upcoming show SWING VOTE on Saturday, October 10th at the Booker T. World Gym Arena (10000 Emmett F. Lowry #1152, Texas City, TX) with a bell time of 8:00pm. The event is free to the public, but is first come, first serve and limited to the first 500 cars in attendance. Parking will open at 7:00pm.

Fans will be able to park their cars around the ring and we will have an FM transmitter so fans can listen to the commentary by Booker T & Brad Gilmore from their cars, portable radios, and or smartphones.

SWING VOTE will feature sponsored giveaways, free food and the opportunity to hear from guest speakers, as well as a top-tier card with matches including Reality of Wrestling Champion Ryan Davidson defending against former champion Abel Andrew Jackson plus more of your favorite ROW Stars in action.

Guidelines:

For more information on ROW’s SWING VOTE, please visit https://www.realityofwrestling.com/ and for more information on BEWOKE.VOTE, please visit https://bewoke.vote/.

For social media:

@realityofwrestling @bewokevote #BeWokeRepYourCity #SwingVote

Georgia residents Ruckus and Lane Skye give us a new look with a 1970s terror in the woods flick entitled The Devil to Pay. The couple co-produced, co-directed and co-wrote the film that stars Danielle Deadwyler, a woman named Lemon, who's husband goes missing and the main suspect is Tommy Runion, played by Catherine Dyer. As Lemon's husband's issues pile up, Tommy decides to take their son, as collateral, leaving a mother with no choice but to avenger her husband and get back the one person in her life that means more to her than anything else.

Thankfully, the film is not torture porn, but a psychological slow burn that has you white knuckling with anticipation. Frankly, I'm surprised I still have fingernails after gnawing down on them to almost a stump. The couple eased my nerves with some of their anecdotes from the set, like needing a baby for a scene in the film and one showing up within 20 minutes of their request. They also discuss how willing and helpful the local community was in the production of the film.

Nature can be a scary place and being lost in the Appalachian mountains adds an extra element of intensity that makes this movie so amazing.

Ruckus and Lane's have also penned the horror film Becky that stars Lulu Wilson, Kevin James and Joel McHale, which was released this past June.

As for The Devil to Pay was released in Drive-Thru Theaters on October 2, 2020 and is not available On Demand and DVD release today, October 6, 2020 via Uncork’d Entertainment and Dark Star Pictures.

Follow Lane Skye on Twitter @Lane_Skye and both Ruckus and Lane Skye's shared Instagram @ruckusandlaneskye.

Giga Chikadze started off as a Goju-Ryu Karate fighter at the age of 14 in Eastern Europe, making his professional kickboxing debut, now Chikadze has transitioned to Mixed Martial Arts and holds a 10-2 record. On Saturday, October 10, 2020, Chikadze will be facing Venezuelan striker, Omar Morales, a 10-0 fighter in the Lightweight, 155 lb. weight division.

We spoke to Chikadze about his upcoming fight, how kata is still useful in his martial arts training and how he sees this fight against Morales going. Hit, it's probably going to be a lot of stand up with a transition to the ground as Chikadze has developed his Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu skills quite well in the last couple of years.

At 6'0", Chikadze is a larger fighter for his usual weight classes of Featherweight (145 lbs) and Lightweight, but has been making weight throughout the years as, like most Eastern European fighters, discipline is a part of not only training but life. Chikadze's own son has begun training in wrestling and puts on some gloves to hit the bag at and he's barely old enough to go to school. His daughter is now acting and modeling in ads, so you know the Chikaze family is talented in not only combat sports but the arts as well.

His opponent, Omar Morales last fought on May 13, 2020, almost 5 months to the day and defeating Gabriel Beniftez by unanimous decision. Chikadze was supposed to fight on August 29, 2020, against Alex Caceres, but that fight was cancelled. His prior fight was on May 16, 2020 against Irwin Rivera, who he beat by unanimous decision as well.

Follow Giga Chikadze on Twitter @giga_chikadze and on Instagram @knockoutcancer.

UFC 179 will be streaming on ESPN+

Since 1990, I have been watching Mrs. Foley's Baby Boy as Good Ol' "JR" Jim Ross loved to call him, jump off ring aprons, dropping elbows on opponents to the hard concrete. I've watched him compete in Japanese Death Matches and be thrown off a 15-foot high Hell in the Cell cage by The Undertaker and the one thing that surprised me post about Mick Foley as his role of Nick in 12 Hour Shift was that I got to hear him curse.

Yes, 30 years later Cactus Jack, Mankind, Dude Love, Mick Foley continues to shock me with just one curse word in a film that is a unique, "What the hell did I just watch?" flick. Foley, plays an M-Level organ trafficker, that has an absent minded new associate named Regina (Chloe Farnworth), how not only loses multiple organs that she bought from her drug addicted cousin through marriage, Mandy (Angela Bettis) who kills dying patients for a little extra cash.

The former WWE World Heavyweight Champion and multi-time New York Times best selling author, who hit the number one spot three times works with former WCW World Heavyweight Champion and one of the most accomplished men behind the scenes in Television (of which people forget about) David Arquette, who plays a serial killer in the film.

Foley talked to us about his role in the film, wrestling, his son Mickey growing as an artist and remembering Road Warrior Animal who recently passed away.

12 Hour Shift comes to all streaming platforms on Friday, October 2, 2020 and is movie that leaves you flustered yet totally satisfied. I, for one, cannot wait for the Blu-ray and all the bonus features to see what was really going on behind the scenes.

Listen to me totally mark out for Mick as we remind everyone that you can follow Mick Foley on Twitter @RealMickFoley, on Instagram @realmickfoley and on Cameo @mickfoley.

Showrunners Moshe Zonder (Fauda, Loners) & Dana Eden  (Yom Haem, Magpie) bring to the United States the Israeli espionage series Tehran to Apple TV+.

Tehran follows a young Mossad operative named Tamar (Ziv Sultan), who goes on her first assignment in her native Iran. Tamar is a Mizarhi Jew that grew up in Israel and now deals with the struggles of being a stranger in her homeland, while staying true to her mission.

Zonder and Eden create a tremendously powerful series, humanizing every character in the show, making a clear distinction that people are their core are virtually identical everywhere even when governments are warring with one another.

In the pilot episode (which we discuss during the interview), Tamar and taxi driver witness an unpleasant site and share a personal moment during tragedy. I even share a personal story with them about a flight I experienced that was quite similar to two of the young characters on their own journey, which left me tense for a 16-hour flight to the Middle East on my trip to Jerusalem for Easter in 2018.

Zonder and Eden took six years to complete this project from its initial inception, filming on location between Greece and Israel. There was a rumor that they had filmed in Jordan, but that was just a rumor that we had cleared up.

What makes Tehran so interesting is not just the incredible ensemble cast, but that each nation feels they are doing what is best for their own society in trying to preserve their way of life, even with those ideologies being diametrically opposed.

Tehran is an exceptional series with an extraordinary cast that after only eight episodes, I long for 20 more! Eden hints at a continuation of the series I am more than hopeful for it. Check out what they had to say in our interview above.

Tehran begins streaming today, September 25, 2020 on Apple TV+.

Shaun Toub is a world renound actor. You have seen him the Iron Man franchise, Blood & Oil, The Kite Runner, Snowpiercer, Maryam and The Sopranos just to name a few. Toub is now part of an ensemble cast for the Israeli series Tehran, which beings streaming on Apple TV+ on Friday, September 25, 2020.

The series is created by Dana Eden, Moshe Zonder, Moar Khon and Omri Shenhar. A couple of those creators were responsible for another hit Israeli series Fouda that streams on a different plantform.

I able to speak with Toub about his experience with being cast as Faraz, the Iranian security member in the Tehran airport, what it meant for him as a Mizrahi Jew to be apart of series that had personal implications for his life and how the series debuted in the United States as we approach the 40th anniversary of the Iranian Revolution.

You can follow Shaun Toub on Twitter @ShaunToub and Tehran streams weekly begining September 25, 2020 on Apple TV+.

Director and Producer, Amir Amirani takes us back to February 15, 2003 when the world stood together in solidary against the coming war in Iraq. Amirani, who was at the Berlin Film Festival at that time and took part in the events in Germany took 9 years to make We Are Many, a documentary that chronicles the largest protest in the history of the world as nearly 30 million people took part in as influenced by the 2 Million British protestors against the governments run by George W. Bush and Tony Blair.

The documentary shows people from Western Europe and the United States that for the first time realized their governments had lied to them about a looming war and what the Middle East and the rest of Asia already knew to be true from the years of colonialism.

Tonight's festivities taking place entitled One Night of Peace will commemorate that amazing day in human history by screening the documentary We Are Many along with a pre-screening celebration featuring Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine, the Resistance Revival Chorus, Tunisian singer/songwriter Emel Mathlouthi, Citizen Cope and Mike Peters of The Alarm.

Following the documentary, a post-screening panel featuring Amirani, Madea Benjamin, Colleen Kelly and Bill Fletcher Jr.

Tonight's event beings at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT and can be screening in the US at www.wearemany.com/screenings-usa.

To find out more about We Are Many and the future screenings and replays of tonight's celebration visit: www.wearemany.com.  Follow We Are Many on Twitter @WeAreManyMovie and on Instagram @wearmanyfilm. Follow Amir Amirani on Twitter @AmirAmirani and on Instagram @happyphoton.

Phyllis Stuart is the creator, writer and director of the documentary, Wild Daze. A film that originally started off following the poaching on the African continent of the majestic elephants who are being slaughtered for their tusks. However, what started off as something that was against big game hunting evolved into a project that focused on the peoples of the continent, the desire for biodiversity and how humans need to be one with the plant.

Stuart had brought in Three Time Emmy Award-Winning actor and legendary voiceover master Keith David to lend his voice to the project in order to add depth to the severity of the issue. Through interviews with conservation experts ranging from Dr. Jane Goodall, Andrea Crosta, Will Travers, and Azad 'Oz' Ebrahimzadeh, to trophy hunters and displaced indigenous African forest peoples, Phyllis explores the relationship between international crime cartels, colluding government officials, animal poaching, the illegal ivory trade, cattle barons and human beings, as she examines how rampant corruption complicates the fight to save species nearing extinction.

I spoke with Stuart about her visually stunning documentary, the need to live in harmony with nature, how certain nations on other continents continue to take advantage of Africa and what we can do as a society to become more harmonious with them.

Wild Daze debuts on Friday, September 18 through The Virtual Cinema Event with eight partner theaters.

To watch Wild Daze click here: watch.eventive.org/wilddaze.

For more information on the film and/or how you can contribute to the cause visit www.wilddazethemovie.com.

Follow Wide Daze on Twitter @WildDaZeMovie, Facebook WildDaZeMovie.

He has been known by many names, Johnny Nitro, Johnny Mundo, Johnny Impact, Johnny Ultra, John Morrison but no matter what you call him, John Hennigan is a tremendous talent that is not only an incredible athlete, a parkour king but overall a really pleasant guy to be around.

Hennigan stars in the new short film entitled Speed of Time, which had a two night run at Dances With Films and will be making its debut on streaming platform, Dust at 7 a.m. Pacific Time on Thursday, September 17, 2020.

We caught up with the wrestling superstar to talk about him tackling the role of Johnny Killfire in this project, how Nic Nemete (aka Nicky from The Spirit Squad and Dolph Ziggler) took time out to join him on this project, their friendly freestyle wrestling match back on Ohio Valley Wrestling (OVW), Hennigan's love for talking animals in films and television along with the desire to repraise his role as the Eternal Warrior if Valiant Entertainment ever decides to do a full-length version of that film.

Follow John Hennigan on Twitter @TheRealMorrison and on Instagram @johnhennigan.

Editor's Note: There was some audio difficult in using the conference call line and we did the best we could in handling it.

Flying ace and Topgun pilot, instructor and all around man's man, Commander Guy M. Snodgrass has written a new book entitled TOPGUN'S TOP 10: Leadership Lessons from the Cockpit. Commander Snodgrass is not only a pilot but has worked as former Director of Communications and Chief Speechwriter to former Secretary of Defense James Mattis.

We spoke with Commander Snodgrass about a couple of lesson's from his book, which is harder, being in a dog fight or raising children and if he was willing to give us his reaction in at a future date for the sequel to the 1986 Tom Cruise classic, Top Gun, entitled Top Gun: Maverick.

Commander Snodgrass' book TOPGUN'S TOP 10: Leadership Lessons from the Cockpit is available today for purchase at all your favorite retailers. Click the highlighted link to find the title on Amazon.