Communist Chinese media manipulation

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The Penguin - (2024 show) image

Entertainment > Television >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15435876/
https://www.hbo.com/the-penguin
https://www.dc.com/tv/the-penguin-2024

When the death of a local mob boss leaves a power vacuum, a lieutenant moves to seize his own piece of the pie.

Phenomenal acting, great writing; good all around. Let's see where this one goes.



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Dune꞉ Part Two - (2024 movie) poster

Entertainment > Movies >
Dune >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15239678/
https://www.dunemovie.net/

Our dude uses every resource for revenge against the Harkonnen who murdered his family and people.

It would be watchable, even good, if it didn't have odd gaps in it. It's as though there is another movie whose cloth this was cut. I'm betting there is a super duper extended length version, because I feel there are missing scenes.


Europa Report - (2013 movie) poster

Entertainment > Movies >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2051879/
http://www.magnetreleasing.com/europareport/

The found footage of the travel to, and exploration of, one of the moons of Jupiter in the search for extraterrestrial life.

It's slow and focused, with a consistent and weighty tone. If you like it within the first fifteen minutes, you'll like the rest of it.



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Push - (2009 movie) poster

Entertainment > Movies >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0465580/

Agencies the world 'round borrow from Nazi experiments to create limited super soldiers, and Steve Rogers Nick Gant is swept up into a conspiracy for American conscripts to free themselves.

Pretty straightforward and interesting; recommended. It unfortunately doesn't tie itself up neatly.



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John Wick꞉ Chapter 4 - (2023 movie) image

Entertainment > Movies >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10366206/
https://johnwick.movie/film/john-wick-4

John Wick returns to alternately ruin and end his friends lives in the hopes of leveraging an obscure rule to free himself from .. whatever their assassins society is called.

It's adequate, but has nowhere near equality: I think one unimportant woman dies on-screen and then the body vanishes, another gets hurt, and this has to be the most brutally misandrist movie I've ever seen. Feminist approved!


Triple Threat - (2019 movie) poster

Entertainment > Movies >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6643972/
https://www.triplethreatfilm.com/

Mercenaries mercenary, but not effectively, and survivors band together for revenge.

It's a solid violence-filled thriller more in the American style than Indonesian, so it's good but not great.



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Don't Look Deeper - (2020 movie) image

Entertainment > Movies >

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10488234/

A high school girl discovers she is not.

A simple story lines that's still decent bubblegum, but it sneaks in jarring wokeness at the tail end so it's not really recommended. It could and should have done much better, even with the woke in mind.



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BeautySnap - (Android spyware) icon

Software, Android >

(on Google Play)
(on F-Droid)
was loverscamera.com

A Chinese spyware/backdoor application default-installed and uninstallable on cheap Chinese mobile phones.

  • Abandoned: Not updated, and the domain is gone.



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Transformers꞉ Age of Extinction - (2014 movie) poster

Entertainment > Movies >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2109248/

The last remaining Transformers on Earth are hunted down and taken apart for their technology.

It's fast and loose, and has a lot of explosions and such; meh.

  • Properly titled Transformers: Age of Extinction
  • Trailer