If you’re a mind reader and you ever find yourself around me,I sincerely apologize for the graphic depictions of male celebrities twice my age doing unspeakable things to me.
So I started watching Winning Time despite the fact that it is about Sportsball, and it turns out that this was a great decision because, secretly, while Sportsball is what happens, what the show is about is actually a whole bunch of Weird Men, and a smaller but excellent group of Competent Women. And I do love shows about Weird Men and Competent Women.
...Also it's an interestingly-shot and -scripted take on media, celebrity, race, and gender in the late 20th-century US, so: definitely more than I was expecting from a sportsball show.
In the late 1980s, Ace is a young man employed by a Harlem dry cleaning shop, working hard to stay out of the drug business. While making deliveries, he meets a drug dealer who convinces Ace to join him. Ace recruits his friends Mitch and Rico and the trio become major players in the Harlem drug underworld, a violent business that will test the friends' loyalty and wits as the money rolls in and the dangers grow beyond their control.
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Dredd has several uses of rapid-firing firearms, with the ensuing strobe effects being particularly harsh and drawn-out in a shootout about halfway through the film.
Some cameras use a super-slow-motion effect that may be disorienting. Cameras shake mildly during some of the action scenes, and there is some peril at extreme heights.
Flashing Lights: 9/10. Motion Sickness: 4/10.
TRIGGER WARNING: This film is excessively bloody and gory. Images of sexual assault are depicted.
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