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AfrAId (2024) Review

When Curtis and his family are selected to test a new AI home device called AIA, which very quickly learns the families behaviours and what they need managing to use this to gain trust. ⭐️ Continue reading AfrAId (2024) Review

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La perfección es una ilusión… “Los Feos”

En un mundo futurista que impone la cirugía cosmética a partir de los 16 años, Tally espera con ansias su turno de unirse al resto de la sociedad. Pero cuando una amiga se escapa, Tally emprende un viaje para salvarla, que cambia su perspectiva sobre todo lo que pensó que quería.

Estreno: 13 de septiembre de 2024 en Netflix.

Dirigida por McG, la película cuenta con las actuaciones de Joey King, Chase Stokes, Brianne Tju, Keith Powers, Laverne Cox, Charmin Lee, Jan Luis Castellanos, Ashton Essex Bright, Sarah Vattano, entre otros.

Si la película se hubiera estrenado durante el auge de las distopías, sería un éxito; sin embargo, hoy en día el género ya no causa revuelo debido a la sobreexplotación y a la falta de diversidad en las tramas. Y aunque su eje central es sobre los estándares de belleza deformados, un tema en voga, no incita a la reflexión o al debate. Puntuación: ★★☆☆☆

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El Camino Christmas (2017)

My brother first recommended this movie to me, which should have been an indication that it was not a typical Christmas movie. We have a rather large central cast in this one, too, so hold on.

Eric Norris (Luke Grimes) has recently lost his mother and came to El Camino, Nevada looking for his father, Michael Roth. Upon arriving in town, he meets two deputies, the well-meaning idiot Billy Calhoun (Dax Shepard) and the power-hungry drunk Carl Hooker (Vincent D'Onofrio). Carl is convinced that Eric is a meth dealer because Eric seems a little shady. Which, he does seem a little suspish, but why jump to meth? Eric then goes to find the address where his father lived at some point. There he meets Larry (Tim Allen), the town drunk. Larry is angry and obnoxious, but he's not in denial about it like Carl is.

Fast forward a little bit, Carl and Billy arrest Eric on like one real charge and three fake ones. Then Carl beats the shit out of Eric. Billy freaks out, so when Carl leaves, Billy lets Eric go. However, Eric isn't fast enough and Carl sees Eric's car before he can get out of town. Carl shoots into Eric's engine so he can't keep driving, and Eric bolts into the nearby Vicente's Liquor Mart. Inside the liquor store already is Larry, the owner of the store Vicente (Emilio Rivera), an employee at the store and single mom Kate Daniels (Michelle Mylett), and Kate's 5 year old son Seth (Ashton Essex Bright), who is nonverbal.

Carl is pissed, and Billy is not responding to him because Billy is a little bitch. Eric is not really in a hurry to just go with Carl, so Carl fires his gun into the air outside the liquor store and puts a call in, "shots fired at Vicente's Liquor Mart, back up requested." After quite a scramble inside, Larry shoots Carl in the leg, Eric takes Carl's gun, and now it looks like a hostage situation.

Sheriff Bob Fuller (Kurtwood Smith) arrives on the scene, having no idea about Eric's arrest and release. Billy is trying to explain, but doesn't want to say that he let Eric go because Carl beat the shit out of him. The whole thing turns into a media circus outside as Beth Flowers (Jessica Alba) turns up live on the scene, asking questions Billy doesn't want to answer. She interviews Jewels (Kimberly Quinn), Kate's mom, and finds out there's a child inside, Seth. This gets it boosted to the state and national news, which is what Beth has always wanted, and fianlly the state officers show up to handle the hostage situation. Bob is annoyed that someone is taking over in his town, but he also knows that Billy and Carl are not good cops.

Inside the liquor mart, Carl is trying to convince everyone that he's the good guy. Eric is freaking tf out. Larry is just living for the drama of it all. Kate and Vicente are responding like most normal people probably would. Seth is just chilling, playing with a remote control truck he got for Christmas from Vicente.

It's more of a modern take on Westerns than a Christmas movie, but I was into it. This is the first Tim Allen movie that I've ever liked because I believed his character- the rude, mean drunk everyone hates (I cannot get behind the movies where Tim Allen is a great guy who just also happens to be an asshole). My only complaint is the way they handled Seth. It seemed like he was supposed to be a nonverbal autistic child, but he acted like someone with selective mutism. I will choose to believe that they were trying for representation in this movie, and everyone loved Seth regardless, which is wonderful. I just know the difference better than most, so I'm being picky. Overall, if you like dark humor or westerns, this is worth it. 4 stars.

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Light/Dark Academia and "Old Money" Name Ideas

By Writerthreads on Instagram

Masculine:

Alexander

Felix

Roma

Hugo

Lawrence

Pak Hei (柏熙)

Andrew

Victor

Leonard

Huxley

Jun Wei (俊偉）

Fitzgerald

Charles

Masaharu (雅治)

Andrew

Khalid

Hao Ran

Edward

Cameron

Jun Xi (俊熙)

Harrison

Darius

James

Ahmed

Henry

Theodore

Sulaiman

Chadwick

William

Feminine:

Alice

Elizabeth

Victoria

Josephine

Akari (丹梨)

Magaret

Florence

Sophia

Ai Lin (愛玲）

Kennedy

Eleanor

Henriette

Adesina

Anya

Eloise

Lorraine

Wing Yan (詠欣)

Eliza

Ingrid

Hermione

Rashida

Catherine

Ichika (一千花)

Esmeralda

Eugenie

Seraphina

Maureen

Daphne

Penelope

Adeline

Surnames:

Reyes: Kings

Stentham: At the river banks

Yamamoto: (one who lives at) the base of the mountain(s)/ (one from) Yamamoto District

Hargreave: someone who is the first to think of or make something

Renaud: advice, rule

Kumar: prince, son, boy, or chaste

Alarie: All-powerful

Burton: fortified enclosure

Fujimura: wisteria village

Alviar

Brentwood: A town in Essex, England/burnt wood

Toussaint: All saints

Ho Tung（何東）

Charmant: attractive

Hunton-Blather

Kapoor

Dupont: of the bridge

Anworth

Alma: nourishing

Blackburn: black brook

Ashton: from the ash tree (town)

Khatri: member of the warrior class

Harvey: iron, blazing

Laurent: the bright one, shining one

Leighton: leek town (lol)

Minamoto: source, origin

Allard: brave, noble

Seymour: From St. Maur

Note: The Chinese names included aren't really "old money" because we don't really associate names with money or position. The younger generation of Asian people usually have English names as well Chinese ones (instead of a romanised Chinese name). All Chinese surnames can also be "old money" because lots of people have the same surname.

Side-note: quite a lot of "old-money" kids have joint surnames from both parents, so you could try doing that for your characters

I used Google for a lot of names from cultures I'm not familiar with so I could be very wrong! Please correct me if I’m wrong!!!

QOTD: What’s your main character’s name and why did you choose that name?

AOTD: Mine is Fletcher Cheung, I chose Fletcher because it felt very powerful, and not a lot of girls (especially Chinese girls) have that name so it was memorable.