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I've rarely felt so uncomfortable watching a movie, outstanding work

Compliance

Summary: A caller posing as a police officer gets ChickWich manager Sandra (Ann Dowd) to strip-search young employee Becky (Dreama Walker) after the latter is accused of theft.

Fascinating if uncomfortable insight into abuses of power with surprisingly sympathetic Ann Dowd and claustrophobic setting.

Rating: 3.5/5

Photo credit: IMDb

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Every time there is some heinously poor attempt at mockery in the name of "nothing is off limits" comedy, I just think back on "The Ringer" starring Johnny Knoxville. Like, that movie was hit and miss and could have been funnier, but it understood the premise of the joke: a guy attempted to rig the Special Olympics (something so heinous his priest beat the shit out of him, which to be fair is also a great joke) by pretending to be disabled, and promptly not only got found out immediately but got his ass handed to him by professional athletes. Then the rest of the film was spent getting to know these guys and changing his mind. Yeah, it was a tad undercooked, but it was sweet and actually endorsed by the Special Olympics. I like it, more can learn from it. I don't know, I'm inclined to give "heart in the right place" a lot more leway.

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Sparks are doing a musical with Jon Woo! This is not a drill!

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"The Irresponsible Captain Tylor" is great. It's that rare comedy anime which is actually funny, doesn't resort to "haha, titties" and instead plays its lunacy straight. It's a show about the ultimate bumbling idiot, who is so lucky that the universe bends itself to his will to keep him alive. Every episode is "what kind of bullshit are we in this week? And what kind of bullshit is he going to pull to get out of it?" It's a show about the Ultimate Intergalactic Giga Chad, making you wonder if he's genuinely a lucky idiot, or a genius pretending to be an idiot. Gold.

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"7 Days War" is a movie I find myself thinking about a lot, right now, in this (shall we say) "charged" climate... It's a good film too, give it a go.

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"Talk Like a Child" is my favourite episode of a TV show ever. Man I should watch that series again

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Reading "One Piece" for the First Time: Part 17

This chunk was solely to twiddle thumbs, introduce (at long last) 2 new characters and reintroduce a good one. Appreciate Meme in Progress telling The Idiot he won't live to be a thousand, good to bring that gangling fuckwad down a peg or two, and this legend deserves the win, even if it is just him using common fucking sense. (I choose to believe that's this dude's super power: he's just some normal guy in a world of giants, burning leg men, pirates who can turn into gingerbread houses, monster clowns, goofy sea monsters and candle-people. I'd need years of fucking therapy for this bullshit, I'm glad he's holding it together as well as he is, honestly! Especially since, with no context, his mates went to get a doctor for his dying friend and came back with a reindeer in a top hat and left a fucking hole in Christmas island. Meme in Progress should really think about a career in something normal: the Giga Chad wants to open a restaurant, chill with him man! Be his accountant or something! Just don't look at his "Things Touched by a Woman" expenses) The monster sea cat was great. Just more lunatic fuel to the madness bonfire. Of course they're sacred: you want to fuck around with that thing? It'll treat your soul like a fucking curtain after 3 rounds of Zoomies...

THIS is the fucking "Crocodile" I've been hearing about, getting hyped for? I was expecting, nay, CRAVING an actual fucking crocodile man (Giga Chad deserves to cook a crocodile so much) to fight and instead we get a trenchcoat sporting, cigar chomping sand tornado maverick motherfucker? Gotta be honest... I dig it. This guy seems rad. Can't wait to see which bullshit superpower The Idiot pulls out of his ass to beat him in their first fight. Smoker's back though, that is gangster. This guy is in the running for my favourite character who is not the Meme in Progress or the Giga Chad. I'm honestly on his side here (and not because I love "smoke powers" aesthetically... well partly): if there was a crew of a rubber Idiot with no rules, a Spin-Kicking Giga Chad and a Sentient Sword who wants nothing more than to reproduce with Blades as a Concept? I'd want them arrested too, these guys are a God-damn menace. Actual plot is being sewn, though, we have actually had build up to the kingdom Crocodile controls and wants to own, I'm looking forward to it. This is actually building somewhere.

Then the plot stops dead in its tracks ala "Sherlock" to go "look! The Idiot has a brother!" despite like, literally nothing hinting at this or having bearing on this. The Idiot is surprised and remembers that he has one, which would be an absolute ass-pull (and still is, to be fair) were it not for the fact that he wouldn't know his own ass if his head got lodged there whilst I was kicking it. The guy is called "Ace" which, okay, sure, and he's written as the "devil may care but in a cool way like every anime edgelord dingus from the 2000s" was, and he has fire powers (I think) and is on a vendetta mission to hunt some guy named Blackbeard who used to work for him until he turned evil. This fucking guy is so fucking dead. He may as well have "cool mentor brother set up to fucking die" branded on his fucking face. At least then our idiot protagonist would remember who the fuck he was and have some reason to give a shit. I'm calling this kid "Coffin Filler" because he may as well be like Django carrying that thing around. Wait, is that what the "D" stands for in his ludicrous name? Honestly, the Idiot has more attachment to his pet fucking rock than this dingbat. God I hope we get a Pet Rock, that would be fun.

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Don't worry about posting "One Piece" spoilers. I'm reading the fucking thing and couldn't tell you what constitutes a spoiler. Every post about this fucking thing is "Can't believe that Blergleburb was the Rompledink!" Or some variation of: "Atticus Giddyfuck is revealing the power level of his Schlong-Combat! HYPE!" And I'll never understand it. You kids seem to be having fun though. For my part I've just met the reindeer and nobody's eaten him.

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And this is how I discovered Doechii

ITS DOECHII BITCH MISS D-O-E DON DADA BITCH YOU NOTICE ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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I went into "Companion" blind, and without spoiling anything, it's the tone of "Abigail", a great marvellous fun time, and if the trio of goons from "Anora" were attempting to track somebody in the woods, and with a very funny German language sequence Budget Dan Stevens, the corkscrew lobotomy and Jack Quaid looking like Sam Lake are just cherries on the top

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Terrible Video Game Ideas: "Suicide Squad: In for a Penny..."

A tactical strategy game in the style of "Commandos" or "Desperados", where you assemble and control a squad of supervillains and are told to achieve a series of objectives. Each squad member has their own unique abilities you can select from (Killer Frost can freeze things, El Diablo can burn things, Getaway King can drive the vehicles, Count Vertigo has hover boots and can speak Vlatavan, Deadshot can shoot things etc) and the levels are essentially set up like "Hitman" or "Thief" - assemble a team and do the objective, as long as one of them makes it out and the mission is accomplished, you're good! Squad members can accumulate status effects, debuffs, buffs, etc, and can even go rogue if things get bad enough. When that happens? Simply flick the switch to end them. Or if you need a distraction, send one in, and then flick it!

Heists, assassinations, extractions, rescues, demoltions - all in the service of the US government, and the squad's freedom. But with permadeath on the table, the meat grinder is waiting!

Hell, you want to assemble a squad of stupid useless ones for a mission? Go right ahead! Joke team of Penny Plunderer (the GOAT), Lime and Light, Getaway King, Sterling Silversmith, Clock King (the other GOAT) and more? Enjoy!

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cowboy bebop end title cards

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He'll probably provide his own mask too. Guys, you made the WORST possible call here

the people behind the second live-action He-Man DO know that Frank Langella 1) is still alive, 2) would reprise his role as Skeletor for a speck of dust and a sandwich, and 3) is an actual actor, right?

...right?

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i know its the mets, but this is the coolest shit i’ve ever seen a human being do

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This movie lacks Lucy Liu! It it Lucy Liu-less! In lieu of Lucy Liu, we have Lucy Lawless, to make up for our lack of Lucy Liu, thus making this a Lucy Lawless movie. It is not lawless, it is Lawless-loaded! Lucy Lawless! Soon we shall combine, to make a Lucy Liu and Lucy Lawless movie

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They had literally one job with the upcoming "He-Man" movie, and that was to give us a glorious, up to the standards of Frank Langella portrayal of Skeletor. They have literally chosen the worst possible option. Here are, off the top of my head, some options: 1. Nic Cage

2. Frank Langella again

3. Vincent D'Onofrio

4. Patrick Wilson

5. Christopher Eccleston

6. David Tennant

7. Michael Sheen

8. Jose Pablo Cantillo

9. Dan Stevens

10. Hugh Quarshie

11. Frank Langella again

12. Jessica Rothe

13. Billiam Skarsgard

14. Jessica Rothe with a skull drawn on her face

15. Frank Langella again

Given enough time and drugs, I could come up with a comprehensive list, but this is literally the worst fucking choice they could make. It's EXACTLY who you think it is. It's been a while since I have so swiftly avoided a movie or series, not since the remake of "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency" had Max Landis' name plastered all over it, to be honest

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Hi! Are you reading One Piece online? And, if you are... would you mind sharing the link? 👀

Well I'm not going to have the space or the money for the manga, so here ya go! https://w33.onepiece-manga-online.net/manga/one-piece-chapter-155/