DAILY CALL SHEET: AUGUST 3, 2023

Monster Brawl (2011) The world's toughest monsters are assembled for a MMA-style pay-per-view tournament. Wrasslin' fans may chuckle at the cast of recognizable WWE faces and gore hounds might appreciate the Mortal Kombat-style finishing moves, buuuut...  overall, this plays out like something that would've worked much better as a short SNL sketch. Also, WTH is Dave Foley doing here? Are actors from the Great White North under some blood oath to appear in anything Canadian? On the plus side, it's got Lance Henriksen as the voice of God, which is acceptable.

TIL: As with many things, the Church has made no formal declaration on the morality of sports like boxing or MMA. Instead, it tasks the participants with weighing their training and personal motivations against the demands of the particular sport and their spiritual responsibility for bodily integrity. Even more complicated, it asks spectators to examine their reasons for watching. Are they tuning in based on an appreciation of skill or for the excitement of competition, or is it just to see real people bash each others brains in?

Freeze Frames #011: "I count it as a certainty that in paradise, everyone naps." - Tom Hodgkinson