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Lorne Malvo

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  1. Seen a fair few recent releases this week, and most of them have been shite.

    The Persian Version - Don't let the shit title put you off. Essentially a family comedy-drama about clashing American-Iranian cultures, it's a lot of fun with a really bright energetic central performance from Layla Mohammadi. A nice surprise.

    Ricky Stanicky - I actually thought the first 20 minutes of this were shaping up decently, and there were a few laughs in there, but it sizzles out fairly quickly and the last 30 minutes are dreadful.

    Spoiler

    I know I'm reading too much into a daft comedy, but these three pricks getting no comeuppance AT ALL for being lying arseholes (other than Zac Efrons missus leaving him for 5 minutes) was infuriating. 

    Damsel - Millie Bobby Brown fights a dragon. I like some elements of it but it's pretty uneven, with Brown in particular switching from very bad to very good from scene to scene. Suffers from Netflix green-screen a lot.

    The New Boy - Cate Blanchett plays a nun in aboriginal Australia. I always admire films that so strictly do there own thing and refuse to adhere to whatever filmmaking fashion is in at the time. That's about all I could admire with this, because I couldn't get on with it at all. Just not for me. I've always struggled with the magical realism genre though so happy to admit this may be a me problem!

    Irish Wish - I'm glad we're past the point where Lindsey Lohan is seen as a figure of ridicule. This is utter shite, mind. Would make an absolutely unhinged doublebill with that shite Jamie Dornan Irish film from the other year. I've some people say Ed Speleers has Bond energy and while I wouldn't go that far, even in this he comes across pretty well.

    Road House - A lot more fun that it had any right to be, really. It's a good laugh. A few more films like this and I might forgive Jake Gyllenhaal after All Too Well soured me on him.

    Bob Marley: One Love - I mean, it's a music biopic. They're all the fucking same. I like the genre so thought it was fine. If you don't, you won't.

    The Inventor - A stop-motion animation about Leonardo Da Vinci, voiced by Stephen Fry. I thought this was really charming and lovely. Might be a bit twee for some, but I had a great time with it.

  2. I quite liked the Punk/McIntyre segment, until Seth's shit music hit and everybodies pint in the pub went flat. But Punk in Chicago with every person in the crowd hanging off his every word - if there's ever a time he didn't need to do the 'ohh, he hinted at Vince!' shit it was here. I'm not surprised it was off the cuff, but it was a stupid line.

    I don't mind them having Sami lose and start doubting himself before Mania, but I feel like a loss to Gunther in a tag match or something would be more effective than Bronson Reed getting the win over him.

    Rock/Rhodes is a cracking build-up.

  3. I'm with air_raid on Kaitlyn. She was good in-ring at a time when she had dross to work with and had a great look. Also, her spear was vicious. I know AJ Lee got all the plaudits around this time, but Kaitlyn was the better of the two for me. If she came along now she'd be a big deal, I reckon.

    I think if Low Ki came around now he'd fit in better in todays landscape, especially in AEW where lack of height wouldn't hold him back and strike-based offense is in fashion. But in saying that, he'd probably burn his bridges after a week anyway.

  4. 16 minutes ago, air_raid said:

    then made him twiddle his thumbs for nearly 2 years between losing the title to Rollins and winning it at SummerSlam 18 (including multiple defeats to Lesnar and spending near a year wasting time with Strowman which also involved multiple losses),

    This period involved him losing the IC title clean to The Miz on Raw 25 too, which was maybe the nadir of them half-arsing Reigns push.

  5. 1 hour ago, Loki said:

     

    Personally I think there's only one guy on the roster with the sort of charisma you need to stand up to The Rock, someone with undeniable kavorka.  Rocky may have the flowery shirt, but he has the shoes of a champion.  Yeah.

    CM Punk's injured, isn't he?

    Yeah!

  6. During Covid I used to go running on the canal at the same time everyday, and would always pass this old bloke who I assumed was out on his daily walk. It got to the point where I'd give him a nod and a wave as I ran past him and eventually he'd come out with little one-liners like 'get those knees up' or 'bloody hell, slow down!' One time I jogged past him and he went 'you can go faster than that lad, get a move on' or something and I replied with a jovial 'haven't you got a home to get back to?' To which he replied 'I'm homeless you cunt!' It suddenly made sense why he was in the same outfit and on the same patch of canal everyday.

    I had to change my route after that.

  7. Cosmo Jarvis is great, and for me his performance in Calm With Horses is more impressive than anything Tom Hardy has done (saying that, I'm not a massive Hardy fan).

    Had no interest in Shogun initially but didn't realise Jarvis was in it, so that's getting added to the list.

  8. My first time seeing Mina Shirakawa and I'm instantly a fan. Seems to have the goods in-ring and as soon as she came out she had a ton of infectious personality.

    The ROH womens division is pretty great right now actually. Athena, Starkz, Aminata and Shida all doing really good work. And they're even making a go of Hirsh/Ellering and giving Diamante and Kiera Hogan mini-feuds to keep them busy. Good stuff.

    Red Velvet vs Aminata was a really good match. Aminata seems to get better with each passing week.

    Oh, and Eddie Kingston saying he has been too nice lately and needs to bring back the nasty Eddie? Yes please!

  9. 8 minutes ago, Supremo said:

     

    Considering they had to follow the I Quit match, that Main event was nothing short of a miracle. They managed to do a wild, weapon-based brawl in a way that still set it apart from what Christian and Cope had done forty minutes earlier, massively overdelivering.

    It came to mind watching this main event just how wrong those podcast experts are. The types who say things like 'doing two piledrivers in a match weakens the DDT in another match' and all that shit. Here you had a blood-soaked intense feud-ender which involved a 2x4 filled with nails being driven into another blokes cock and bollocks. Their logic would dictate that the rest of the show would play out to silence as nothing could match those levels of violence, yet people were still going wild for a completely different type of hardcore match in the main event, and were even marking out for Shibata doing a sleeper hold and a kick.

    It's almost as if those people are chatting absolute shite.

    Also, Cody Rhodes once beat Sammy Guevara for the TNT title on a Christmas day episode of Rampage, but it was during that hot potato TNT title spell so it's no surprise nobody remembers it.

  10. 23 hours ago, Supremo said:

    Between his promo and then the match, does Swerve feel a bit cold to anyone else?

    I woudn't say so. A few months back he seemed like the hottest prospect on the planet and the shine has come off a tiny bit due to Okada, Ospreay etc coming in, but he's still massively over and him winning the title would still be massive.

    I sound like a broken record at this point but thought that was another great show. Will Ospreay is just on a different level. From the moment he comes bouncing out of the tunnel, he's just got this infectious enthusiasm to everything he does that you can't help but grin at.

    I love him, but I wish Eddie Kingston would tap into his hardcore brawler mode that we see during Stadium Stampede/hardcore matches a lot more. He's been in All-Japan cosplay mode since the Continental Classic started and I find it infinitely less interesting than mad brawler Eddie.

  11. Poor Things - I'm not sure why, I had a suspicion I was going to hate this in a 'mother!'-esque way. Happy to report that I was wrong, I loved it. Emma Stone is terrific and Mark Ruffalo is funny as fuck. Great stuff.

    Argylle - It's really daft but I had fun with it. A few twists and turns caught me massively by surprise and it was just a good time. Probably a bit too long and wears its welcome out by the end, but nowhere near as bad as I'd heard.

    Drive-Away Dolls - Somehow simultaneously better than most reviews suggest while also being quite disappointing. Perfect running time and some good jokes (the two enforcers are good comedy value), but I always expect a bit more from a Coen. 

    Werner Herzog: Reluctant Dreamer - A documentary about the career of Herzog... it's perfectly fine but if you know anything about Herzog this won't tell you anything new. 

    Origin - A film about the author Isabel Wilkerson and her writing of the book 'Caste', I think at times it's a bit muddled and doesn't know whether it wants to be a biopic, a family drama or a look at historic caste discrimination. It is undeniably moving though and Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor is great.

    Fast Charlie - Pierce Brosnan in an Elmore Leonard rip-off isn't as good as it sounds. It's shit. (Also, this was my first time using Amazon Prime Video in years and can confirm it's still a dire service compared to Netflix//Disney+.Lightyears behind in terms of UI, video quality etc. Terrible!)

    I also watched Soul and Fight Club on the big screen. Both are great.

  12. I managed to 100% all 3 games on the N-Sane Trilogy but gave up about 2 hours into Crash 4. It got incredibly hard very early - there wasn't a difficulty curve, more a difficulty mountain. And it just didn't have the 'one more go' factor of the original 3.

  13. Apologies if this is the incorrect thread, but does anyone have any recommendations for a good smoothie maker/blender? It doesn't have to be anything particularly high-end, just something I can throw a bit of fruit in in the morning to keep me off the bacon baps.

    Thanks in advance!

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