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I had that the other day. It will pass.
With undercrackers full of soil and a head full of Ent porn. He who is without sin, throw the first branch.
It’s a tricky balancing act.
The article is strangely silent about the smoking angle.
Good dog, bad owner.
The artist must have loved that.
I mean, if it comes on telly on a rainy Sunday afternoon, when you are bored, with nothing else to do, you might as well stand in the rain for a couple of hours.
I suspect that rather than being predators, it is the children themselves who do it.
How tech-literate are those toddlers?
It was a shoddily made mess. If she wanted to correctly apportion blame she should do what Dakota Johnson has done and be honest about the problems during development which doomed the film before they started filming. Or just quietly erase if from your CV and move on.
I hadn’t paid attention to her, as her choice of roles tended not to get on my radar, but she sounds to be quite something.
I’ve never seen the film but after reading that, I think I have to now! 😄
The article is more entertaining and less of a loss of your time than the film, so quit while you are ahead.
I haven’t seen Sissy or The Ranger but, while not being the biggest slasher fan, they look up my alley, so I’ll give them a spin.
My pick would be The Final Girls (2015), but others worth a mention are Tragedy Girls (2017), Scream (2022), The Blackening (2022), Child’s Play (2019) and Dude Bro Party Massacre III (2015) - not necessarily the greatest films ever but I was entertained, which is more than I can say about the Fear Street trilogy.
Yeah, I enjoyed Argylle when I saw it in.the cinema, it"s a pity more people haven’t got to see it since.
There was a lot about it to like but I felt the fight direction spoiled it - far too much Jason Bourne-style lobbing the camera around.
Best I can say is that he clearly has problems.
Happy cake day.
Four months in prison sounds excessive but only if it was his first offence. I did some digging and found this from Forbes:
What’s missing from every report about this I could find, and what is so crucial to understanding this story, however is that Anthony Bray is a repeat offender with a long rap sheet and numerous prison sentences, several of which were for burglary including serial burglary. In 2011, Bray was convicted and sentenced to four years in prison after getting “three strikes” for burgling residences. But his run-ins with the law go back to 1989 and he was in court numerous times throughout the 90s as well.
This has not been reported in IGN, PC Gamer, Eurogamer or The Guardian or any other outlet I could find, all of which ran rather similar versions of this story without the relevant context, though PC Gamer mentioned the Midlands region’s knife violence problems (see below for more on that).
These publications and numerous others describe him as a “Legend of Zelda fan” though there is no evidence to support this. There is, however, lots of evidence that he’s a repeat criminal offender responsible for numerous acts of petty theft and burglary. He’s likely well-known by the police given his decades of criminal activity. The police were probably not thrilled to see someone with this history and reputation walking around brandishing a knife, even if it’s a Zelda replica.
The last wrinkle to this story is the very real problem with knife violence in the UK. Warwickshire is in the Midlands where knife violence is higher than any other region, higher even than in London. There were 5,234 knife offenses in the region in 2023 alone including a number of murders. Perhaps it is through this lens that we should view the arrest and prison sentence of Anthony Bray.
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