Wolf Warrior (2015) - In a word, preposterous

Wolf Warrior was written and directed by Wu Jing, a wuxia actor who got his start in Hong Kong but made his name in China. He plays the lead character, a maverick sniper in the PLA who is reassigned to a special division outside of direct combat situations after killing a drug dealer without waiting for instruction. The title kind of gives it away - I thought this movie was kind of dumn, but it turned out to be a pretty important launching pad. 

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YSL 26/11/22 - Breel Embolo and how Globalization undermines national teams

When Cameroon-born Breel Embolo scored the winning goal for Switzerland against the nation of his birth, he declined to celebrate and seemed quite emotional. Journalists and pundits described the moment, which occurred in the opening match of Group G in this year's World Cup in Qatar, as "powerful". I would describe it instead as slightly perverse.

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