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In article <v3kn7m$3uc18$1@dont-email.me>,
 "Ian J. Ball" <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:

> The Wolf of Wall Street (Apple TV+) - In glorious 4k. (But it's film, 
> and grainy, so I don't think this one really benefited much.)
>     Yeah, I had never seen this before.
>     If you enjoy funny stories about inveterate addict swindlers, this 
> 2013 film is one of the better examples of the "genre", even despite 
> clocking in at 3 hours. Leo even does a pretty good job.

And Margo Robbie at her finest.

> Ruthless (Hulu) - (Not in 4k, though it still looked great.) This 2023 
> flick was what I wanted/needed to wrap up the night - this was a 
> low-budget, somewhat leisurely-paced and low-key "revenge flick".
>     (How do I know this flick is "low-budget"? - Because Texas Battle 
> shows up in this, and Battle was in at least half of the low-budget 
> latter-day Bruce Willis flicks too!)
>     Dermot Mulroney stars as a high school wrestling coach (the dude is 
> virtually magic, though, as his "wrestling" skills seem to give him the 
> same abilities as an ex-special forces soldier, which he uses often!!).
>     Anyway, in the film's beginning, his daughter is murdered.
>     Four years later, he's still coaching high school wrestling, and is 
> now being hassled by a plucky (but kind of obnoxious) female student 
> (Melissa Diaz) who is bad at wrestling but wants to get better. Soon 
> enough, her mom's boyfriend pops her one in the face, and Mulroney's 
> character doesn't take kindly to it, and breaks the boyfriend's arm in 
> retaliation.
>     The mom's boyfriend, being a total scumbag, retaliates by selling 
> the girl to human traffickers.
>     Once Mulroney figures out she's missing, he springs into action to 
> get her back, cops (Niko Foster), be damned!
>     This, of course, is all ridiculous (e.g. somehow, during her 
> kidnapping ordeal, the girl is never raped, which is pretty much not how 
> human traffickers work!), but I enjoyed the nonsense, with Mulroney 
> taking righteous revenge on a whole bunch of scumbags in this flick.

So this guys goes all Liam Neeson when one of his students is kidnapped 
but he didn't when his own daughter was murdered?