#Michael Appleton

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The Michael Afton I drew for matching wallpaper with my friend

We decided to draw our favorite characters making a heart ^.^

If you wanna use it then go on, but if you are doing a screen recording and sending it to the internet then credit me please

Please reblog, I *do* care and it helps the post to be more noticeable

[therealefl]

Former Lincoln City Boss Returns To League One

Former Lincoln City and Blackpool manager Michael Appleton has been confirmed as the new boss at fellow League One outfit Charlton Athletic, according to official club media. The 47-year-old has been out of work since January when he departed Bloomfield Road with Blackpool in the midst of a Championship relegation battle. He has been linked with numberous jobs since, but there were concrete…

[just-a-pole-sir]

OK guys 😏

[c-schroed]

I went to see that Robbie Williams biopic yesterday, and all that's left from it in my mind is that song of Williams' fiancé that played in the background once, except that I just found out that instead of "Never Ever" by All Saints it's indeed "Happy Ending" from Mika that's stuck in my head.

Which teaches me two things about my subconscious:

It's a petty little bitch, who from a biopic full of great songs remembers the one song that the biopic protagonist would have hated to be remembered. And I respect that.

When it tricks me into thinking a different song – one that, fun fact, I like much more – is in fact that song that it wants me to remember out of sheer pettiness, then it kinda likes me. Which is just... aww! <3

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Crabby Appleton - Go Back

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Film Review: BRIDE HARD (2025): Rebel Wilson's Latest Comedy Falls Flat Despite the Efforts of a Solid Cast

https://film-book.com/film-review-bride-hard-2025-rebel-wilsons-latest-comedy-falls-flat-despite-the-efforts-of-a-solid-cast/?fsp_sid=46927

[timoluke]

Making a (semi incomplete) list of NHLers whose names are just words. Why? Because I’m very bored and I find this funny. Do with this information what you will.

(Non English words count but also I only speak English and high school level Italian which I took almost 20 years ago, so let me know who I missed)

Does not include AHL or other non-nhl-roster players.

Gold Star Words: Cody Glass, Brett Pesce (Italian for fish), Andrew Mangiapane (Italian for eat bread), Ethen Frank, Troy Terry, Patrick Brown, Owen Power, Jordan Greenway, Morgan Frost, Dryden Hunt, Jake Bean, Dustin Wolf, William Carrier, Taylor Hall, Brent Burns, Pat Maroon, Ethan Del Mastro (Italian for of the master), Wyatt Kaiser, Spencer Knight, Miles Wood, Oskar Bäck, Sam Steel, Brendan Smith, Dominik Shine, Craig Smith, Connor Brown, Jeff Skinner, Darnell Nurse, Stuart Skinner, Devin Shore, Alexandre Carrier, Kieffer Bellows, Michael Bunting, Luke Evangelista (Italian for…evangelist), Zachary L’Heureux (French for “the happy one”), Cole Smith, JT Miller, Adam Fox, K’Andre Miller, Jonathan Quick, Nick Cousins, Shane Pinto, Bobby Brink, Sean Couturier**, Tyson Foerster (German for…forester), Bryan Rust, Ryan Graves, Logan Couture, Will Smith Hockey (both Smith and Hockey are words), Jake Neighbours, Nathan Walker, Cam Fowler, Tyler Tucker, Brayden Point, Conor Garland, Reilly Smith, Mark Stone, Alex Pietrangelo (Italian for stone angel), Zach Whitecloud, Adin Hill, Cole Perfetti (Italian for perfect), Colin Miller.

Total: 63

** google will tell me that it is a word but not exactly what it means. Something with women’s clothing.

Honorable mentions (would be a word with different spelling): Jack Hughes, Luke Hughes, Quinn Hughes, Taylor Raddysh, Morgan Geekie, Joseph Woll, Andrew Peeke, Alex Tuch, Kyle Burroughs, Kevin Bahl, Charlie Coyle, Christian Fischer, Roope Hintz, Patrick Kane, Andrew Copp, Justin Holl, Jeff Petry, Moritz Seider, Alex Lyon, Zach Hyman, Trevor Moore, Justin Barron, Owen Tippett, Nick Seeler, Connor Dewar, Shane Wright, Vince Dunn, Yanni Gourde, Darren Raddysh, Morgan Barron.

Total: 29

Honorable mentions (it’s two complete words but not a usable compound word): Jeremy Swayman, Logan Stankoven, Riley Stillman, Mackenzie Blackwood, Scott Wedgwood, Colin Blackwell, Quinton Byfield, Alex Newhook, Scott Mayfield, Matthew Highmore, Barclay Goodrow, Nils Hoglander, Tanner Pearson, Mason Appleton.

Total: 15

UPDATES!

Suggestions from people who speak more languages than me

Gold Star Words: John Marino (Spanish for marine), Scott Morrow, Jordan Staal (Dutch for Steel), Sebastian Aho (Finnish for clearing, Japanese for idiot, and several other definitions in several other languages), Jesper Fast, Adam Fantilli (Italian for infant), Dante Fabbro (Italian for smith), Noc Dowd (Noah says it’s an out of fashion English word), Juuse Saros*, Patrik Laine (Finnish for wave), Mikko Rantanen (Finnish for small beach), Joel Kiviranta (Finnish for stony beach), Rasmus Kupari (Finnish for copper), Kris Letang (French for the pond), Joey D'accord (French for okay), Brad Marchand (French for merchant)

Promoted from Honorable Mention to Gold Star: Christian Fischer (German for Fisher), Alex Tuch (German for cloth)

Honorable Mention (homophones): Ian Cole, Jesper Bratt

Honorable Mention (non-valid compound words): Jalen Chatfield, Filip Forsberg (waterfall and hill in Swedish), Mikhail Granlund (Spruce Grove in Norwegian).

*some sort of astrological situation. Check the comments for an explanation from @fresh-penguin

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Is a Painting Found at a Garage Sale a Van Gogh?

During Vincent van Gogh’s year-long stay in a French asylum, he created some 150 paintings—including Irises and The Starry Night. He also painted many interpretations of other artists’ work, calling them “translations.” As van Gogh wrote in a letter to his brother Theo, he was “not copying pure and simple” but rather “translating into another language, the one of colors, the impressions of chiaroscuro and white and black.”

Now, experts say they’ve identified a long-lost van Gogh translation: an oil portrait of a red-cheeked fisherman, which an antiques collector purchased at a garage sale in Minnesota for under $50.

The collector sold the piece to the art research firm LMI Group International for an undisclosed amount in 2019. Since then, the company’s researchers have been investigating the painting, and they recently released a 450-page report detailing their conclusion: It’s a van Gogh.

When art historian Maxwell L. Anderson, chief operating officer of LMI Group, first laid eyes on the painting, he was “struck by what [he] saw,” as he tells the Wall Street Journal’s Kelly Crow. “Was I all in? No,” he adds. “But I was super intrigued.”

At the garage sale, the collector had been intrigued by the painting’s impasto, a technique involving thickly laid paint. The 18-inch-tall portrait depicts a white-bearded man by the sea who is smoking a pipe and repairing a fishing net. His downcast eyes betray contemplation, and his face is marked by ruddy coloring and deep smile lines. In the work’s bottom right corner is a signature: the word “Elimar.”

Though the piece lacked van Gogh’s famously vivid colors, Anderson saw “telltale signs of a deft painter at play,” per the Wall Street Journal. He also noticed a hair embedded in the brushwork.

In its analysis of Elimar, LMI Group combined science and technology with “traditional tools of connoisseurship, historical context, formal analysis and provenance research,” as chairman, president and CEO Lawrence M. Shindell says in a statement.

The company hired Jennifer Mass, president of Scientific Analysis of Fine Art, to analyze the canvas’ fibers and pigments. One particular red—geranium lake, or PR-50—introduced doubts. Van Gogh died by suicide in 1890, and researchers have always thought geranium lake was first patented around 1905.

Mass brought in patent lawyer Ben Appleton to search for an earlier patent. After a month of research, his firm found an 1883 patent for PR-50—a “find-within-a-find for conservators, who can now date and authenticate works containing this red pigment to the late 19th century,” writes the Wall Street Journal.

A genetic analysis of the hair embedded in the painting revealed that it had belonged to someone with red or red-brown hair. As van Gogh’s 35 self-portraits illustrate, the artist had ginger locks. Additionally, researchers found that the letters in the painting’s “Elimar” inscription—particularly the Es, Ms and As—match those in an 1885 van Gogh painting.

Van Gogh regularly neglected to sign his paintings, but why mark this one “Elimar”? According to LMI Group, Elimar is the name of a character in the 1848 Danish novel The Two Baronesses by Hans Christian Andersen—one of van Gogh’s favorite authors.

According to the report, van Gogh painted Elimar in 1889, during his first year at the sanitarium in southern France. Experts think Elimar is a so-called translation of Danish artist Michael Ancher’s portrait of fisherman Niels Gaihede, “a subject to which both [painter Paul] Gauguin and van Gogh were drawn,” per the statement.

“As soon as we saw the Ancher, I knew we were right,” art historian and LMI Group researcher William Havlicek tells the Wall Street Journal.

Experts think Elimar was inspired by Michael Ancher’s portrait of fisherman Niels Gaihede

The analysis has provided “fresh insight into the oeuvre of van Gogh, particularly as it relates to his practice of reinterpreting works by other artists,” Anderson says in the statement. He thinks Elimar is “a form of spiritual self-portrait, allowing viewers to see the painter as he wished to be remembered.”

LMI Group will soon begin showing Elimar to major van Gogh scholars and dealers. They think the artwork is worth at least $15 million. Still, the painting’s authorship is not yet widely accepted, and art experts are generally hesitant to draw conclusions about newly discovered works’ authenticity.

“People love it when things fall through the cracks, and it would be wonderful if they found a van Gogh,” Richard Polsky, an art authenticator who wasn’t involved in the project, tells the Wall Street Journal. “But they’ve got to pin everything down and get a scholar at the Van Gogh Museum [in Amsterdam] to sign off on it.”

The Van Gogh Museum has seen the painting before. The anonymous buyer submitted it to the museum in 2019, and experts ruled that it wasn’t the real deal. However, the museum hasn’t yet responded to the new report.

“At the end of the day, the most important thing is what the experts in Van Gogh think of the artwork,” Robert Snell, co-owner and fine arts specialist at Revere Auctions in St. Paul, tells KARE’s Kent Erdahl.

Snell is particularly interested in the painting’s provenance. “Trying to figure out how that piece ended up at a garage sale in Minneapolis is really the $15 million mystery,” he adds.

By Sonja Anderson.

[imperatorrrrr]

T's Target Board

here's a list of players, unrestricted free agents, restricted free agents, players with contracts, that I am eyeing for the New Jersey Devils, in no particular order:

Nikolaj Ehlers

Brad Marchand (you don't understand how angry I am about this)

Claude Giroux

Pius Suter

Mason Appleton

Michael Essyimont

JJ Peterka

Marco Rossi

Mason McTavish

Connor Dewar

Bryan Rust

Rickard Rakell

Jason Robertson

I'll keep updating this as more guys get added to the rumor mill or guys get removed because of trades.

[astra-galaxie]

CC Characters' Headcanons - Suspects/Killers (M-P)

(Excluding main and recurring characters)

Mabel Whitney

Mackenzie Herring

Madam Xiang

Madeleine Deville

Madena Cuervo

Madison Springer

Mãe Janaína de Iemanjá

Maggie O'Mally

Maggie Ryder

Maggie Scrubber

Major Perkins

Malcolm Drummond

Malcolm Rochester

Mallory Banks

Mama Yasmine

Mandy Pregodich

Maniitok Jones

Maniwan Tongproh

Manka Srebnik

Marcel Clapet

Marcel Robin

Marcello Campiano

Marcus Butler

Marcus Peel

Margaret Littlewood

Margherita Morello

Margot Kirkland

Maria Sanchez

Marie Bordeaux

Marigold Carson

Marilyn Bullock

Mark Antony

Mark Hamilton

Mark McKenzie

Marla de Paradis

Marshall Metcalf

Martha Baker

Martha Jefferson

Martha Price

Martin Davenport

Martin Fuller

Marvin Ferrari

Marvin Hamilton

Mary Lou Hong

Mary-Lou Waylon

Mary Patrick

Mary Read

Matt Barry

Mauro Massetti

Max Gaynes

Maya Salim

Maylin Park

Mayor Nagel

Mbah Tirta

Meera Kat

Megan Lucas

Megan Steel

Megu Hashira

Meiko Kato

Melissa Roanhorse

Melody Rivers

Melvin Cheruiyot

Memphis Banach

Meredith Dernier

Mergen

Michael Fletcher

Mighty Pete

Mimi McPhee

Mina Reynolds

Minnie Starr

Mike Cove

Mike Herbert

Mikey Bolero

Mikhail Levin

Milton Dobby

Milton Grimmes

Mildred Takakura

Milo

Miracle Girl

Miranda Cohen

Miranda Galguera

Miranda Rousseau

Miriam Young

Misha Goshwalla

Missy Benedict

Mitchell Westville

Moesha Decker

Mohammad Souleyman

Molly Byrne

Molly Mocard

Molly Robinson

Mona Middlefinger

Monday

Monica Pozie

Monty Washington

Moose Nylund

Morgan Goodwin

Morgana Blackhawk

Mortimer Mutlog

Moz Burgess

Mr. Bleak

Mummy

Muriel Cove

Muthui Ndiritu

Myriam Miller

Mysteria

Naomi Suzuki

Natasha Romanova

Nathaniel Earl

Neha Adarsh

Nellie Appleton

Nellie Mortimer

Nelson Campbell

Nicoletta Marconi

Nicolette Butler

Nigel Campbell

Nikita Rukhin

Nikolai Kamarov

Nikolai Sharapov

Nikolaos Costas

Nikolay Woloch

Nina Hunt

Nina Rodionova

Ninah Zafy

Noah Richards

Noémie Leprince

Norma Cole

Nyota Adhiambo

Obaasan

Octavian

Odell Toole

Officer Smythe

Oleg Chernov

Olga Chizhova

Olive Powell

Olivia Hewett

Olivier Feraud

Omar Al Hadawi

Omar Bahir

Om Padmasana

One-Eyed Jill

One-Tooth Sam

Oracle Papadakis

Orlando Weathers

Opera Phantom

Ophelia Lincoln

Oscar Thompson

Oscar Trefusis

Oswin Piper

Orsino Ziegfeld

Otto Kessel

Otto Schmetterling

Oume

Padre Rafael

Pamiu

Pandora Geiss

Papa Quansah

Park Eun-ji

Patricia P. Harris

Patricia Rochester

Patrick Bota

Patrick Rufio

Paul Greene

Paul Irwin

Paul Oaster

Paul Sheppard

Pearl Montana

Pedro Torres

Peggy Buxton

Peggy Pascal

Penelope the Rebel

Penelope Rivera

Per-Sephone

Percy Stanbury

Percy Wollcraft

Peri Foreman

Philip Hoover

Philip Ramsey

Philip Rockwell

Phillip Hatchman

Phineas Fine

Pierce Cromwell

Piotr Golovanov

Pip

Pippa Goldfinch

Polly O'Brien

Poppy Winters

Prince Abioye

Prince Amadou

Prince Rupert

Princess Torgoljin

Prisha Chandra

Pyo Kun-woo

[mrs-stans]

Lily James and Sebastian Stan Reportedly Cast in Secrets & Wives

Lily James and Sebastian Stan have reportedly joined the cast of Focus Features’ period film ‘Secrets & Wives.’ The movie, helmed by Carly Wray, is scheduled to start shooting in Atlanta, Georgia, and Vancouver, British Columbia, on an undisclosed date. The film, set in the 1980s rural Washington state, revolves around a single working mother named Sherry, who is swept off her feet by a charismatic, larger-than-life outsider named Martin Lewis. They run off and get married, only for hell to break loose. Sherry’s life gets turned upside down when it’s revealed that Martin is a married ex-gangster.

Lily and Stan are expected to play Sherry and Martin respectively. The two performers previously worked together for Hulu’s biographical series ‘Pam & Tommy,’ in which Lily plays actress and model Pamela Anderson and Stan portrays musician Tommy Lee.

Lily recently completed the filming of Sam Worthington and Riz Ahmed-starrer ‘Relay’ and Joseph Gordon-Levitt-starrer ‘Providence.’ Her upcoming release ‘The Iron Claw,’ starring Zac Efron and ‘The Bear’ fame Jeremy Allen White, is scheduled to be released on December 22, 2023. Her recent credits include Josephine Esperanto in ‘Finally Dawn,’ Zoe Stevenson in ‘What’s Love Got to Do with It?’ Linda Radlett in ‘The Pursuit of Love,’ and Ellie Appleton in ‘Yesterday.’

Stan recently concluded the filming of ‘A Different Man,’ in which he stars alongside Renate Reinsve. He is also a part of the cast of Marvel Studios’ ‘Thunderbolts.’ His recent credits include Vlad Tenev in ‘Dumb Money,’ God in ‘Ghosted,’ Max in ‘Sharper,’ Steve in ‘Fresh,’ Nick Fowler in ‘The 355,’ and Bucky Barnes/Winter Soldier in ‘The Falcon and the Winter Soldier.’

Although the exact dates of the filming are yet to be announced, we can expect the same to begin after the conclusion of the ongoing SAG-AFTRA strike. Atlanta, known as the Hollywood East, is home to several production facilities and natural attractions. The city previously hosted the production of several famed projects, including ‘The Walking Dead,’ ‘Stranger Things,’ ‘Cobra Kai,’ ‘Ozark,’ ‘Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3,’ etc. Vancouver AKA Hollywood North, on the other hand, is a significant filming location of ‘Virgin River,’ ‘Supernatural,’ ‘Criminal Minds,’ ‘The Last of Us,’ and ‘Fear the Walking Dead.’

Wray, who is at the helm, also penned the screenplay. The screenwriter wrote several acclaimed episodes of AMC’s drama series ‘Mad Men.’ She also co-wrote and co-executive produced HBO’s superhero series ‘Watchmen’ and Max’s dystopian series ‘DMZ.’ Her other credits include ‘Westworld,’ ‘Mindhunter,’ ‘The Leftovers,’ ‘The Bastard Executioner,’ and ‘Constantine.’

Berlanti/Schechter Films, New Leaf Literary & Media, and Truly*Adventurous team up with Focus Features for the production of the film. Greg Berlanti, Sarah Schechter, Michael McGrath, Pouya Shahbazian, Matthew Pearl, and Greg Nichols are the producers.

[charliemxwll209]

🇬🇧/🇺🇸 Slight Michael redesign

🇵🇱 Mały redesign Michaela

Mały szkic jakis

Some small doodle

He became a Christmas ball 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯

Stał się bombką🤯🤯🤯🤯

[therealefl]

Former Lincoln City Boss Reveals Plans To Return To Management

Former Portsmouth, Blackburn Rovers, Oxford United, Lincoln City and Blackpool manager Michael Appleton has revealed he is eager to return to coaching, in an interview with the Mail Online. The 47-year-old has been out of the game since being sacked by the Tangerines in January, after just seven months in charge at Bloomfield Road, following a run of one win in 11 Championship games. With over…

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Review: Better Man - Something Beautiful

Title: Better Man Directed by: Michael Gracey Written by: Simon Gleeson, Oliver Cole, Michael Gracey Starring: Robbie Williams, Alison Steadman, Jonno Davies, Stephen Pemberton, Kate Mulvaney, Carter J Murphy, Raechelle Banno, Frazer Hadfield Music by: Robbie Williams Choreography: Ashley Wallen Visual Effects Team: Wētā FX Visual Effects Supervisor: Luke Millar Production Design by: Joel Chang 

"It might be cabaret but it's world class cabaret and I'm the fucking best at it. Fuck yourselves."

There are fair comparisons to be made between Better Man and Elton John's Rocketman. Both draw on fantastical elements to depict the experience of sudden and extreme fame. Rocketman does so through colourful, high-octance musical sequences and the image of the singer shooting up into the sky like the rocket man he sings about; Better Man is more rooted in reality but depicts its subject matter - the musician Robbie Williams - as a CGI chimpanzee.

Williams has spent his life, it seems, hiding his anxieties behind a 'cheeky monkey' persona but it is not to this that the ape-suit refers, i in his own terms Williams has always viewed himself as "unevolved" compared to those around him and it is this idea that saves the the CGI chimp from being a gimmick and makes it a unique and engaging stylistic choice. It takes all of ten minutes to get used to the CGI chimp and after that ten minutes it's difficult to imagine a human face and body in the same role and it is not so difficult to see the human being behind the chimpanzee eyes. After that ten minutes, the effect is almost invisible. It helps that none of the other characters allude to the fact that they are talking to a chimp. There is no wink and nudge; Williams' story is told with sincerity, making his presence as a chimpanzee and the film's energetic musical numbers - a Take That montage that jumps and flips around Regent Street, a delicate sequence in which he falls in love with Nicole Appleton, and an unexpectedly violent scene in which Knebworth Stadium is turned into a gladiatorial arena where Williams battles past versions of himself - seem utterly natural.

While the ups and downs of Williams' career aren't so different to sudden fame and cocaine blues depicted in many a musician's biopic, the commitment to the stylistic punt pays off totally and utterly. The schtick will - hopefully - put curious bums in cinema seats but the heart-felt sincerity in which the story is told will keep them there. Williams and director Michael Gracey took a massive risk and it absolutely works. There is a magic in Better Man, in Williams' words and Gracey's committed directing, that somehow, combined, make the emotions in the film more heartfelt and stronger than they would have been had Willimas been merely a man.

Other bits:

I've only written two reviews so far this year and they both reference Elton John and Rocketman so I think I should be expecting a cheque in the post soon

Good evening everybody! My name is Robbie Williams. This is my band, and for the next two hours, YOUR ASS IS MINE!" - bruh

all the song and dance sequences were outstanding - it needs to be said, it needs to be SHOUTED

that She's the One number was so beautiful

again, the absolute commitment to the bit that this film did is really what made it for me. I kept expecting, after his rehab, that he'd turn into a man, but I like the insinuation that even after sorting himself out, Robbie Williams still sees himself as a chimpanzee

"I'm gonna be fucking famous!" "Shut up, you tit." "Oh, fuck off Glenn."

Alex Godfrey's review is brilliant and captures everything that was so brilliant about the movie: https://www.empireonline.com/movies/reviews/better-man/

I wasn't a huge fan of Robbie Williams when I went to see this - I liked some of his songs but his peak as a musician was somewhat before my time - I enjoy music biopics and this one caught my interest as a bold and cool way to tell this kind of story, but consider me converted I'm absolutely sold on his music now

the Relight My Fire setting was so good and effective in conveying how overwhelming it must be as a musician to face that scale of an audience and venue

I realise that it is probably not his story to tell, but I would have liked if the film had been more explicit bout the fact that Nicole had to get an abortion because her producer wouldn't let her have a baby. It made me think of Sinéad O'Connor, who refused to get an abortion and how she is probably a minority among the many women who have been treated this way. I think it would have been a good opportunity to at least shine a light on the issue in a conversation or argument about it, even if they didn't want to dwell on it for the entire film

fucking Oasis

[silveragelovechild]

I’m a fan of the Planet of the Apes films so of course I wanted to see Robbie William’s “Better Man”. This is his biopic where William’s is portrayed by a CGI chimpanzee. The story opens with young Robert (a chimp) and the CGI so charming, I immediately accepted this wild interpretation of his character.

Why a chimpanzee? In an interview director Michael Gracey explained that Robbie Williams always saw himself as a dancing monkey. (Now it makes sense!)

The movie follows Robbie William life from the age of 12, through joining the boy band Take That, and his eventual solo career, through about 2004.

Where the film is at its best is the musical numbers. They are dynamic and cleverly stage and edited. My favorites are: “I Found Heaven” depicting the early days of Take That; “She's the One” a montage of Williams relationship with Nicole Appleton; and I especially loved “Rock DJ” which made me giddy with its exuberance.

Beyond his musical career, “Better Man” emphasizes Williams inner demons: his struggles with depression, feeling of inadequacy, and his desperate need for his father’s love. These elements lead to Williams near downfall due to alcoholism and drug addiction.

If you’ve read any of my prior reviews about stories of addiction, you may know that due to my father’s alcoholism, I have little sympathy for addicts. Despite that, because of the high of the first half, I really wanted to love “Better Man”.

But there came a point during the Knebworth Festival sequence where it became too much. Williams imagines a Burly Brawl in the mosh pit where he fights and violently slaughters other versions of himself. (It’s a more bloody the burly brawl between Neo and Smith in The Matrix Reloaded.)

Another issue is that the Better Man wraps up with a fairly quick redemption arc of Williams entering rehab with a montage of him apologizing to those he hurt. The film is 135 minutes and only 5 of those were rehab.

The movie ends with Williams inviting his father onstage at the Royal Albert Hall to sing “My Way”. This scene gives the father another unearned redemption after father abandoning his family years earlier. BTW, this event did not happen in real life.

Based on the first half, Better Man is one of the most creative movies I’ve seen from 2024. Although I didn’t hate the second half, the movie as a whole is disappointing.

Here’s a clip from the RockDJ number:

[ukrfeminism]

A police force which had to review more than 3,500 Clare’s Law applications has referred itself to the police watchdog over another failure it has identified in how they were handled.

It has emerged a number of women were physically harmed following failures relating to Clare’s Law applications at Wiltshire Police.

The law, which was introduced in England and Wales in 2014, allows police to disclose someone’s history of abusive behaviour to those who may be at risk from them.

In October, the force launched a review after a small number of applications were analysed and found to include failures to disclose information to those at risk from domestic violence.

The new failure is said to have happened late last year while the review only covers cases from April 2015 until August 2023.

The force said on Thursday that the review identified 25 failures in the service, with two of these failures resulting in non-fatal physical harm to two adult women.

A 26th failure relating to a common assault on an adult woman in late 2023 was identified on Friday, police confirmed.

Of the other failures, it is believed 11 are administrative ones and 12 are service failures, for example where information should have been disclosed or where inadequate research was undertaken.

One member of police staff is suspended from the force and is the subject of an independent investigation by the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) watchdog.

Chief Constable Catherine Roper said: “Yesterday, I updated our communities on the progress of our urgent review of 3,582 Clare’s Law applications.

“After this announcement was made, I was informed of an additional incident where a potential failure in our service towards the end of 2023 may have contributed to another person being harmed.

“This service failure relates to a Clare’s Law application made after the timeframe of the review (April 2015-August 2023).

“However, I can confirm that we have made an immediate referral into our Professional Standards Department, as per our policy, and we have also referred this matter to the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC).

“Whilst it is crucial that we prioritise the support to the victim and preserve the integrity of both the ongoing criminal investigation and the conduct referrals we have now made, I can confirm that this was an incident of common assault against an adult female.

“From the moment our failures within the Clare’s Law scheme came to light, I vowed I would be wholly transparent and honest with our communities. That is why I wanted to update you on this latest failure as soon as I could.

“As ever, I will keep you fully informed of any additional issues connected to this matter.”

It means the force has now referred itself to the police watchdog five times over the failings.

Clare’s Law was created by Michael Brown following the death of his daughter Clare Wood, 36, from Yorkshire.

Ms Wood was murdered by her ex-boyfriend George Appleton in 2009. An inquest into her death revealed that Appleton had a history of violent behaviour against women, which Ms Wood was not informed of.