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Sam Sykes @samsykesswears.bsky.social · 2d

after brutally murdering a dozen gangsters, Denzel Washington celebrates a football match with the locals and dances with them in the very streets he just watched a man die screaming on and that's how the movie ends

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Sam Sykes @samsykesswears.bsky.social · 2d

He drugs a dude with a fatal overdose of pills and then wordlessly follows him through the streets as he begs for help in increasingly breathless wails
set against this is a local festival where they watch fireworks go off in the bay
my god
my god, man

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Sam Sykes @samsykesswears.bsky.social · 2d

He tortures a man to death while singing the blues to him softly. What the fuck, man. How was this movie pitched.

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Sam Sykes @samsykesswears.bsky.social · 2d

The last twenty minutes become a high-intensity horror film as Denzel Washington stalks increasingly-terrified men through a darkened manor, soundlessly assassinating them before dropping a corpse through a stained glass window to terrorize the survivors.
There is no way to describe this movie.

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Sam Sykes @samsykesswears.bsky.social · 2d

There's a brutal public execution scene followed immediately by the mafia cooking spaghetti together and having a nice snack followed immediately by a guy getting knifed to death in a garden.
This movie has it all. This movie wants it all.

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Sam Sykes @samsykesswears.bsky.social · 2d

And he's legitimately acting his ass off in this movie. He has all these charming little interactions with the locals--chats about fish and food that go nowhere. And they're a joy to watch.
And then, next scene, he's stabbing a guy to death and watching the light in his eyes go dark. Incredible.

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Sam Sykes @samsykesswears.bsky.social · 2d

Over 75% of this movie is Denzel Washington, playing a hardened assassin, absorbing the local culture, sipping tea at cafes, sampling fish and pasta dishes on a life-changing vacation and then there's 15 minutes of foiling a terrorist plot woven in there. There is nothing else like this movie.

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Sam Sykes @samsykesswears.bsky.social · 2d

There's a scene of a brutal arson of a local shop. Locals are holding the owner back as he sobs uncontrollably, his wife on her knees begging god to save them, absolute terror.
Smash cut to a beautiful harbor lit up at night followed by an extended sequence of Denzel Washington shopping at a market.

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Sam Sykes @samsykesswears.bsky.social · 2d

@crobertcargill.bsky.social the world is ready for a comedy reboot of IT.

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Sam Sykes @samsykesswears.bsky.social · 2d

It really is surreal. There are these endless shots of Italian townscapes--beautiful coastal views, quiet atmospheric cafés, charming local interactions--punctuated by moments of explosive violence where the mafia hangs a granddad out a window or something.

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Sam Sykes @samsykesswears.bsky.social · 2d

This is such a peculiar movie. It's been one scene of explosive violence and then several scenes of Denzel Washington ambling through a scenic Italian town, absorbing the local culture. Like a travel channel show that occasionally breaks out into a John Wick sequel.

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Sam Sykes @samsykesswears.bsky.social · 2d

But then he unloads a shotgun into the rectum of a mafia don, so this movie has layers, see, it's complex, Scorsesian

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Sam Sykes @samsykesswears.bsky.social · 2d

Watching The Equalizer 3 today.
Within seven minutes of the movie opening, Denzel Washington jams a revolver through a guy's eye socket and shoots through his skull, using the carcass as a shield.
Then he acts real sad about it, like he promised himself he wasn't going to do that.

Denzel Washington holding a revolver in a smoky room in The Equalizer 3.

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Rappenem @rappenem.bsky.social · 3d

Bird dragons

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Newt 👁️🦎 @eyeofthenewt.bsky.social · 4d

Hi #portfolioday
I'm Newt, a freelance artist, roleplayer and a folklore nerd based in Prague, Czechia.

Looking for work at the moment and would love to do more book covers, book illustration, TTRPG art and game/animation concept art!

Portfolio: eyeofthenewt.com
Socials: linktr.ee/EyeOfTheNewt

a cropped detail of a digital illustration showing a crazed village woman mid-transformation into a corvid demon. the light from the moon is red and she is levitating in a corn field, her body contorting and a crazed smile adorning her face.

a digifal illustration depicting a sunlit forest clearing on which a ruined fort stands. its built of white stone with ivy slowly overtaking it a d through out the image, there are a few goblins scattered, patrolling the grounds. the one we see most clearly, on the foreground carries a spear and a grin on his face.

portrait of a brown haired pale man done in the style of an old looking oil painting. it is contained on a thin oval frame a d lit by a single point above. it shows a man wringing out his hands on a dirty rag. he is dressed in a worn white shirt, daek waiscoat and a pale yellow necktie. his hair is falling loosely around his face in a messy ponytail and gis face bears marks of decay. his eyes are glazed over like eyes of a corpse and he has the look of tightly concealed anguish on his face.

digital illustration depicting riders dressed in decorated, east slavic folklore inspired garb, mounted on giant goats, flying thru the sunset-lit orange sky. they have gleefull expressions on their face and are adorned in many shiny pieces of jewelery.

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NIWindustries.bsky.social @niwindustries.bsky.social · 4d

🎧Practice Makes Perfect🎯

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Sam Sykes @samsykesswears.bsky.social · 3d

so you hate medium films??!

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Sam Sykes @samsykesswears.bsky.social · 3d

Hades 2 is a great game. The acting, writing and characters are all as strong as they were.
But I confess, I miss the smaller, intimate stakes of the first game. I just finished a run on the sequel and, while it was great, it didn't have quite the same emotional punch as beating Hades in the first.

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Enerjax✦ 🔜 Magfest, FF @enerjax.bsky.social · 4d

Udon Delivery🛵🍜
The local spirits gotta eat!

My blue haired spirit guardian dressed in yellow will do anything to keep the local ghosts happy, including keeping them well fed! 🍜

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Sam Sykes @samsykesswears.bsky.social · 4d

keepin the troops fresh

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Sam Sykes @samsykesswears.bsky.social · 4d

bagel bites are fusion cuisine

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Sheephin (Commissions Open!) @sheepshin.bsky.social · 4d

Time To Clock Out!!!👊⚡️

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Ouroridae | Springeddon>Brisnova>Comic Fiesta @ouroridae.bsky.social · 4d

#speedpaint of my Aphrodite illustration 😳

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Stellaween? @antlervel.vet · 4d

WHEN THERE’S TREASURE BEHIND THE WATERFALL: Oh wow. Yes, very clever! Waterfall treasure! No one’s ever done that before. Lazy jackass

WHEN THERE’S NO TREASURE BEHIND THE WATERFALL: Wow. Too stuck-up to put treasure there huh? Too much of a fucking ICONOCLAST for that? Piece of shit. FUCK you

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✨🌹Chloe🌹 ✨ @cincearts.bsky.social · 4d

Amaca and Akuh✨

[ Sketch for LittleViking ]

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