#byron mann

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Altered Carbon (2018-2020) || Out of the Past (1.01)

#altered carbon #joel kinnaman #byron mann #userstream #scifiedit #scifigifs #tvfilmsource #tvandfilm #cinematv #filmtv #tvgifs #tvedit #televisionedit #televisiongifs #netflixedit #dailynetflix #whump #whumpedit

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#the expanse #chrisjen avasarala #admiral nguyen #i miss this show #shohreh aghdashloo #byron mann #//

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Watching The Expanse for the first time: The Weeping Somnambulist

#The Expanse #Expanse #Sadavir Errinwright #Errinwright #Chrisjen Avasarala #Avasarala #Admiral Nguyen #Admiral Pena #Korshunov #Shawn Doyle #Shohreh Aghdashloo #Byron Mann #Rachael Crawford #Jeff Seymour #Yum Yum Podcast #Yum Yum Pod #First Time

[camyfilms]

THE BIG SHORT 2015

Truth is like poetry. And most people fucking hate poetry.

#the big short #2015 #christian bale #steve carell #ryan gosling #brad pitt #john magaro #finn wittrock #hamish linklater #rafe spall #jeremy strong #marisa tomei #tracy letts #byron mann #melissa leo #adepero oduye #karen gillan #margot robbie #max greenfield #billy magnussen

[ladytarantula]

#wi ha joon #squid game #gaku space #byron mann #sexy af #hot asian men #man crush everyday #lee kyu hyung #asian hunk #asian actor #all of us are dead song jae ik #squid game hwang jun ho

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Arrow Season 1 Oliver had three mentors introduced, but which of the three was the better mentor?

#Arrow #Yao Fei Gulong #Shado #Slade Wilson #manu bennett #celina jade #byron mann #arrowverse #dc cw #deathstroke

[moviesandmania]

DARK ASSET (2023) Sci-fi action vengeance thriller - trailer and release date

‘Programmed for vengeance’ Dark Asset is a 2023 American sci-fi action thriller film about a charming guy who attempts to pick up a woman in a bar by spinning a tale involving spies, implanted microchips and the dangerous military scientist hunting him. Written and directed by Michael Winnick (Disquiet; Malicious; Code of Honor; The Better Half; Guns, Girls and Gambling; Shadow Puppets; Deuces)…

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#2023 #Byron Mann #Dark Asset #Helena Mattsson #Michael Winnick #movie film #Robert Patrick #Sabina Gadecki #sci-fi action thriller #Shani Rigsbee

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#he's so fucking hot you don't understand omg #literally on my knees🧎 #arrow #green arrow #oliver queen #yao fei #arrow yao fei #aesthetic #moodboard #mood board #aesthetic moodboard #messy layouts #aestheitcs #messy icons #icons #byron mann #byron mann icons #byron mann layout #byron mann moodboard #byron mann packs #gulong yao fei #yao fei icons #yao fei moodboard #yao fei layout #yao fei packs #arrow icons #arrow moodboard #arrow packs #arrow layout #yao fei aesthetic

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Series Review...The Recruit

(4/5) I was going to end this show with a rating with 3.5 or 3.8, but that ending made it officially an 4/5.  So superficially the show feels like an older show called, "Chuck" with a pinch of "Scandal" (DC work/agency connections and double crossing and a bunch of lying) and "How To Get Away with Murder" (Murder mystery, starting from the end with flashbacks and plot twist).  

I was initially going to land with a lower rating because of the main character. By the end of the season, the last couple of episodes, Owen (Noah Centineo) became extremely annoying.  He's naivete was comical and some what endearing at the beginning of the season but by the end it came off as just stupid.  After the first episode he was in a situation that he could have not returned.  Anyone else would have tighten up after that but he did not.  Working for the CIA not watching your back, internationally traveling and not considering time zones, going on dates and seating by the biggest window, calling and emailing people in none secure ways plus a lot more.

Another character flaw Owen had was his ability to manipulate.  Now in situations where he was an unsanctioned spy, it worked perfectly.  But with situations with his friends I hated watching him play the people who was closest to him, especially Hannah.  I give props to the actor (Centineo) though, because his whole energy changed when he started to use his words to snake his way out of a situation or manipulate someone's feelings.

This should grow into something really special...do yourself a favor and jump on the bandwagon now before it blow up. The comedy captures you, the suspense keeps you and the ending makes you want more. A fledgling CIA lawyer gets caught up in a dangerous game of international politics when a former asset threatens to expose the nature of her relationship with the agency unless they clear her name (rottentomatoes.com).

#the recruit #Netflix #series review #new #review #show #noah centineo #laura haddock #fivel stewart #kaylah zander #angel parker #daniel quincy annoh #vondie curtis-hall #colton dunn #byron mann

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The Recruit – Season 1 – TV Review

The Recruit – Season 1 – TV Review

TL;DR – This is a delightfully fun romp through the world of espionage with a leading man finding himself in all the wrong places at all the right times.   ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Rating: 4 out of 5. Disclosure – I paid for the Netflix service that viewed this series. The Recruit Review – I have to say that when I first heard about The Recruit, I was kind of a bit tired of the overall spy genre. Add to that,…

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#Aarti Mann #Action Television #American Television #Angel Parker #Byron Mann #Colton Dunn #Daniel Quincy Annoh #Fivel Stewart #Kristian Bruun #Laura Haddock #Nathan Fillion #Noah Centineo #Spy #The Recruit #Vondie Curtis-Hall

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Official First Look Debut of Netflix's THE RECRUIT Spy Series Starring Noah Centineo

Official First Look Debut of Netflix’s THE RECRUIT Spy Series Starring Noah Centineo

Netflix has released these first look images of THE RECRUIT series. And you thought your first job was wild. Netflix’s new spy series premieres on Friday, December 16th.    Quote from THE RECRUIT Creator, Showrunner and Executive Producer Alexi Hawley, as told to TUDUM.com: “It’s rare to find a fresh way into a story these days. And the spy genre is no different. From Jason Bourne to James Bond,…

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#Aarti Mann #Angel Parker #Byron Mann #Colton Dunn #Daniel Quincy Annoh #Fivel Stewart #Kaylah Zander #Kristian Bruun #Laura Haddock #Netflix #Noah Centineo #The Recruit #Vondie Curtis-Hall

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Street Fighter

When the first Street Fighter film hit in 1994 (trailer) my hype level for it was through the roof! Fighting games were on fire in the arcade and 16-bit systems at the time, and Street Fighter II was still a hot commodity. The trailer had then 11-year-old Dale craving to be there opening weekend because the costumes for most of the characters looked spot on. That preview included a montage of the “World Warriors” showcasing their vintage special attacks and poses. Guile’s Flash Kick and M. Bison enthusiastically proclaiming “GAME OVER!!!” in that trailer guaranteed I would be in the cinema for it. I was such a dork for this movie in my old journal at the time that I would keep a tally of the number of times I would see the trailer during commercial breaks on television leading up to the film……seriously. There were only a couple of video game movies out by this point. The genre did not have the disastrous reputation that it does today, so suffice it to say, I was amped up going into the film…..and pretty peeved coming out of it because of how it treated a few characters compared to the game and because there was not an actual fighting tournament in it. In 2009, I revisited it when an “Extreme Edition” hit home video with extra features, and my opinion on it softened a bit seeing it with a fresh set of eyes. I re-watched it last week with the new “Steel Book” Ultimate Edition released on BluRay last year. All these years later, and now I seriously love the film!

Well known Belgian, Jean-Claude Van Damme is leading this film as the American fighter, Guile, fresh off Van Damme’s slate of action hits like Hard Target and Double Team. Director Steven de Souza stated in interviews that they had a throwaway line of dialog explaining how Guile covered up his Belgian accent by saying it was actually a southern accent and he is actually from the United States, but it wound up on the cutting room floor. His adversary is the dastardly lead Street Fighter II boss, M. Bison, played by Raul Julia in what would be his final performance. As I alluded above, 11-year-old Dale was furious there was no fighting tournament. Instead, the film is all about M. Bison holding numerous “Allied Nations” employees as hostages in the fictitious world of Shadaloo, with various other Street Fighter combatants serving under him like Dee Jay (Miguel A. Núñez Jr.), Zangief (Andrew Bryniarski), Sagat (Wes Studi), and captured scientist Dhalsim (Roshan Seth). An awkward scientist’s attire is Dhalsim’s costume here, and Bison is forcing him to perform mutation experiments on Guile’s captured comrade, Charlie, and transform him mid-movie into the green-beast we know from the games as Blanka. I can go into the nerd gaming lore on how all kinds of wrong this is relating to Blanka, and Dhalsim’s character’s in the game, but I will actually give the filmmakers credit all these years later because it kind of actually plays well with an adult set of eyes because it would be pretty damn odd diving into Blanka’s actual video game origin story on the silver screen while trying to give equal time for the huge cast.

Speaking of this stacked cast, for the protagonists, aside from Guile, serving under him in the Allied Nations is Thunder Hawk (Gregg Rainwater), Cammy (Kylie Minogue), and Captain Sawada (Kenya Sawada)-who is a character created just for this movie. Sawada was later inserted as a playable character in the video game based on the film…that is based on the game and deliberately titled, Street Fighter: The Movie--just watch this video, it can explain it much better than I can. Two fighters more popular among fans of the video game, Ken (Damian Chapa) and Ryu (Byron Mann), have lesser supporting roles here as they are con-artist weapon dealers who later get teamed up against their will with Sagat and Vega (Jay Tavare). The last squadron of good guys is the trio of Chun-Li (Ming-Na Wen), Balrog (Grand L. Bush – who gave a random viral speech about his memories on the film in 2015), and E. Honda (Peter Tiasosopo). This motley trio is an innocuous TV news crew, but all three coincidentally have their own martial arts background that lines up with the game canon, and Chun-Li wants to avenge her father’s death when M. Bison steamrolled through her village. When Chun-Li confronts Bison with this, Julia absolutely nails it with his delivery of the meme-worthy “It Was Tuesday” line….if you have no recollection of this, well then click or press here to see this iconic moment in cinema history!

Speaking of, Raul Julia is sublime in his performance as M. Bison. He cheeses up his performance just right in his delivery as the master crime lord. Bonus feature interviews detail how he went method for studying for the role going so far as to research Mussolini speeches to mimic body language cadence. Other actors interviewed stated how Julia was visibly sick and downtrodden off-camera with cancer but wanted to do this film for his kids who loved the game. When the cameras were on, his colleagues stated how he was a total pro and how he went out with an aces performance that still lives on to this day! I love the costume he adorns that is incredibly faithful to the game, outrageous cape and all!!! Most other fighters either have game-appropriate costumes or receive their appropriate gear at some point in the movie. Honda is the perfect case where after an amusing Kong/Godzilla duel homage with Zangief, Honda’s gear is battered so much that he dons it like his traditional sumo gear in the game! Some cast members like Dee Jay and Dhalsim don’t don their proper gear, but the filmmakers and costume department get it right for the most part! For better or worse, the fight choreographers work in plenty of the roster’s iconic moves like Guile’s aforementioned Flash Kick, Bison & Honda’s torpedo dive, and regrettably meek renditions of Ryu’s Hadoken and Ken’s Shoryuken.

The film has a rather convoluted plot, but it essentially stumbles its way into a cohesive mess by the end. The Allied Nations crew teams up with Chun-Li’s TV squad and eventually Ryu & Ken to invade M. Bison’s fortress. Van Damme does an admirable “so-bad-it’s-good” portrayal of Guile, and he has a main event-worthy clash with Bison in the final act to close the film. All the fights inside Bison’s fortress with all the cast members are an admitted dumpster fire to keep up with, but an enjoyable one nonetheless! I tip my hat to the crew for the monumental task of trying to grant adequate screen time for this ensemble cast. At the time of the film’s release, Super Street Fighter II was a fairly new entry in the series at home release, so I was surprised to see Dee Jay, Cammy, and Thunder Hawk all featured, but Fei Long is mysteriously absent. However, it may make sense in recent years after finding out how litigious the estate of the Bruce Lee family is. This Ultimate Edition Steel Book has a ton of bonus materials. I would be remiss not to mention how awesome the steel book case is, and the gorgeous art that adorns it. Another cheeky bonus is an actual, physical “Bison Dollar” that plays a small-yet-vital part in the film!!! The folks behind this steel book BluRay went all-out with new bonus materials. There are roughly 75 minutes of new video interviews and features. A couple of the highlights are a 20-minute interview with writer/director Steven. E. de Souza, titled, Making Street Fighter. There is roughly an E. Honda’s 100-hand Slap’s worth of new production anecdotes from Souza. Some quick highlights are how $10 million of the $32 million budget went to Jean Claude Van Damme & Raul Julia alone. Additionally, here we find out JCVD was his backup option after Sylvester Stallone and how he originally wanted Stephen Wang as Bison, but was surprised Julia jumped at the role and could not turn him down.

Also amusing was how Souza stated how they kept toning down the violence and blood in the fights to get to a PG-13 rating but eventually overdid it and the MPAA rated the movie G. Hence, they went back and had JCVD whisper in a curse word to get a PG-13 rating. Lastly, it was fascinating to see in this interview how Souza was pretty introspective all these years later, being appreciative of fans coming around and telling him how much they love the movie in recent years after all the initial negative press. Other notable new extras are interviews with the composer, Graene Revell, and how he was competing to get his soundtrack done and released before the Mortal Kombat movie soundtrack, which went on to much bigger success and still resonates today. They tracked down Ken Masters actor, Damian Chapa for a new interview with fond reflections of his kids loving that he did this movie all these years later. The actress who played Chun-Li, Ming-Na Wen, also had a new interview, with the standout moment being how she was in the scene with Raul Julia for the iconic “It was Tuesday” line. While they could not track JCVD for a new interview, they did have a historian interviewed detailing his humble Hollywood beginnings to his breakout success, and eventually how Street Fighter was the beginning of a downward spiral for him.

There is also roughly a half hour of archived extra features from the aforementioned “Extreme Edition” DVD, but the archived commentary track with de Souza also is carried over and worth your time and has a lot of takeaways from how the production shifted from Thailand into Australia due to filming conditions. This “Ultimate Edition” is a stacked BluRay, and well worth tracking down If you have any nostalgia for the 1994 classic!!! The intricately detailed steel book and physical “Bison Dollar” are just the icing on this delicious cake of camp theater fan service!! I think it is a safe bet the reboot follow-up Street Fighter: Legend of Chun-Li will not receive this treatment as it is as awful today as it was in 2009. By the way, the pic above this paragraph is the ultimate fan service to end the movie with each fighter’s appropriate victory pose!!!! Many, many thanks, Steven E. de Souza, for this iconic closing shot!!!

Here I am reflecting back on Street Fighter in a clip on the podcast “Big Screens & TV Streams.” Other Random Backlog Movie Blogs 3 12 Angry Men (1957) 12 Rounds 3: Lockdown 21 Jump Street 1917 The Accountant Angry Video Game Nerd: The Movie Atari: Game Over The Avengers: Age of Ultron The Avengers: Endgame The Avengers: Infinity War Batman: The Dark Knight Rises Batman: The Killing Joke Batman: Mask of the Phantasm Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice Bounty Hunters Cabin in the Woods Captain America: Civil War Captain America: The First Avenger Captain America: The Winter Soldier Christmas Eve The Clapper Clash of the Titans (1981) Clint Eastwood 11-pack Special The Condemned 2 Countdown Creed I & II Deck the Halls Detroit Rock City Die Hard Dirty Work Dredd The Eliminators The Equalizer Faster Fast and Furious I-VIII Field of Dreams Fight Club The Fighter For Love of the Game Good Will Hunting Gravity Grunt: The Wrestling Movie Guardians of the Galaxy Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 Hell Comes to Frogtown Hercules: Reborn Hitman I Like to Hurt People Indiana Jones 1-4 Inglourious Basterds Ink The Interrogation Interstellar Jay and Silent Bob Reboot Jobs Joy Ride 1-3 Justice League (2017 Whedon Cut) Last Action Hero Major League Mallrats Man of Steel Man on the Moon Man vs Snake Marine 3-6 Merry Friggin Christmas Metallica: Some Kind of Monster Mortal Kombat Mortal Kombat Legends: Scorpions Revenge National Treasure National Treasure: Book of Secrets Nintendo Quest Not for Resale Old Joy Payback (Director’s Cut) Pulp Fiction The Punisher (1989) The Ref The Replacements Reservoir Dogs Rocky I-VIII Running Films Part 1 Running Films Part 2 San Andreas ScoobyDoo Wrestlemania Mystery Serenity (2005) Scott Pilgrim vs the World The Secret Life of Walter Mitty Shoot em Up Slacker Skyscraper Small Town Santa Speed Steve Jobs Source Code Star Trek I-XIII Sully Take Me Home Tonight TMNT Trauma Center The Tooth Fairy 1 & 2 UHF Veronica Mars Vision Quest The War Wild The Wizard Wonder Woman The Wrestler (2008) X-Men: Apocalypse X-Men: Days of Future Past Youngblood

#random movie #street fighter #capcom #street fighter II #raul julia #jean claude van damme #guile #m. bison #steven e. de souza #gregg rainwater #kylie minogue #kenya sawada #ming-na wen #grand l bush #Peter Tiasosopo #wes studi #miguel a. núñez jr. #roshan seth #byron mann #damian chapa

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Sometimes Being a "Dark Asset" is Problematical When Wanting Freedom from What Once Was

Michael Winnick's Dark Asset may well recall other #scifi cum #conspiracy type tv series or movies, but as for wondering who'll gain their freedom requires checking out this film! #moveireview @saban_films

Saban Films Playing at Select theatres and on VOD I can recognise shades of the cult movie Universal Soldier in Michael Winnick‘s Dark Asset, a science fiction cum conspiracy film about an ordinary soldier who gives up his life in order to be turned into a programmed killing machine. It’s almost like Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones. But instead of making humanoid clones with biochip…

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#Anthology #Byron Mann #Helena Matteson #Robert Patrick #Saban Films #Science Fiction

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La inexperiencia es un gran recurso… “El Novato”

Owen Hendricks es un joven abogado de la CIA cuya primera semana de trabajo da un giro inesperado cuando encuentra una carta amenazadora de la exagente Max Meladze, quien planea exponer a la agencia a menos que la exoneren de un grave crimen. Owen se ve enredado en el peligroso y, a menudo, absurdo mundo del juego político y sus muchas trampas, mientras viaja por el mundo esperando completar sus misiones y dejar su huella en la CIA.

Estreno: 16 de diciembre de 2022 en Netflix.

La serie cuenta con las actuaciones de Noah Centineo, Laura Haddock, Aarti Mann, Colton Dunn, Fivel Stewart, Daniel Quincy Annoh, Kristian Bruun, Vondie Curtis Hall, Byron Mann, Angel Parker y Kaylah Zander.

#El Novato #Noah Centineo #Laura Haddock #Aarti Mann #Colton Dunn #Fivel Stewart #Daniel Quincy Annoh #Kristian Bruun #Vondie Curtis Hall #Byron Mann #Angel Parker #Kaylah Zander #Series #Netflix

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Crying Freeman (1995)

#Mark Dacascos #Julie Condra #Rae Dawn Chong #Byron Mann #Masaya Kato #Yoko Shimada #Mako #Tchéky Karyo #Christophe Gans #Movies #Cinema #Manga

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The Recruit | Official Trailer | Netflix

The Recruit | Official Trailer | Netflix

The trailer and release date for the upcoming Netflix series, The Recruit, have arrived, and we have all the details to share with you below. Netflix’s new spy series, starring Noah Centineo, premieres Friday, December 16th Creator/Executive Producer/ Showrunner: Alexi HawleyExecutive Producers: Noah Centineo, Doug Liman, Gene Klein and David Bartis on behalf of Hypnotic, Adam Ciralsky and…

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#Aarti Mann #Angel Parker #Byron Mann #Colton Dunn #Daniel Quincy Annoh #Fivel Stewart #Kaylah Zander #Kristian Bruun #Laura Haddock #Netflix Original Series #Noah Centineo #The Recruit #The Recruit Trailer #Vondie Curtis Hall