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AEW Revolution 2026: What To Know About The March 15 Supercard

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AEW Revenue Share Reveals How Crucial The Promotion Was To Triller - https://www.wrestlingnewssource.com/news/97184/AEW-Revenue-Share-Reveals-How-Crucial-The-Promotion-Was/ #aew #triller

AEW Revenue Share Reveals How Crucial The Promotion Was To Triller

Triller’s continued financial instability has quietly highlighted just how valuable AEW was to the company’s overall bus [...]

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Wrestling Mayhem Show Oct 25

Triller once tried to stop fans from giving them free ads. 😂
Sorg, Rizz & Eamon talk viral wrestling marketing — and Sorg’s AI cameo on Sora. 🤖
🎧 Full episode 👉
https://www.wrestlingmayhemshow.com/wrestling-mayhem-show-979-behind-the-mic-with-eamon-paton-from-880-wrestling-to-aew-wrestledream-reactions/

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Cinegenres Oct 16

𝐋a 𝐒éance du 𝐒oir

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Film Britannique réalisé par Alfred Hitchcock en 1972
Avec Jon Finch , Barry Foster , Anna Massey et Barbara Leigh-Hunt

*Hitchcock signe avec Frenzy surement son dernier grand film!

#Frenzy #AlfredHitchcock #JonFinch #BarryFoster #AnnaMassey #BarbaraLeighHunt #triller #classic #cinema #films #culte #cinegenres @Cinegenres #LaSéanceDuSoir

𝐋a 𝐒éance du 𝐒oir:
https://cinegenres.com/film-de-la-soiree/

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Retro Cinema Wood Oct 15

I trust no one in this house. Here, shadows outlive the living… and those who remain are no longer who they used to be...😱

#movie #triller #dark

90% of Everything is Crap Jul 30, 2025

Sleeping Dogs (2024)

I’m afraid the irony of a protagonist with Alzheimer’s disease who keeps having flashbacks to recent events was lost on the makers of Sleeping Dogs. Selective amnesia is a staple of thrillers, but this is the first movie I’ve seen that treats Alzheimer like asbestos insulation.

Retired homicide detective Roy Freeman (Russell Crowe) lives alone. His apartment is plastered with notes telling him who he is and what everything is and how it works. Even the TV dinners are labeled (why not simply stack the boxes with the instructions facing up?). Roy opens the microwave to find the remote control inside, but everything else is inexplicably arranged with care and precision.

Oddly, when Roy gets a call on his unlabeled cell phone, he answers without hesitation. He arranges to meet with the caller at a specific time and place and even gets there early. Roy then talks to an inmate on death row and visits his former partner. He reaches all these destinations by himself and always returns home safe and sound, never once forgetting where he lives. Roy needs a wallpaper of reminders to get around his tiny apartment but can navigate the outside world with the greatest of ease? Since the only neurons affected by his condition seem to be those governing domestic awareness, maybe Roy should just move out somewhere with a lower concentration of Alzheimer’s in the flooring.

The screenplay would like us to believe that Roy’s uncanny lucidity is due to an experimental treatment apparently based on the pseudoscientific claims that trepanning enhances mental powers. That’s speculation on my part, but then that’s the problem — neither the condition nor the treatment are properly established. They are mutually cancelling plot devices that casually dismiss decades of research devoted to understanding and managing the disease. Rather than confront the brutal, irreversible realities of Alzheimer’s, the film handwaves them away with surgical voodoo.

The film doesn’t portray Alzheimer’s so much as exploit it. The disorder is treated like a dimmer switch the screenwriters can flick on and off depending on what the scene requires. This depiction isn’t just medically incoherent; it’s narratively insulting. It trivializes a real illness in the name of cheap mystery mechanics, reducing Alzheimer’s to a moody filter on a detective procedural.

Sleeping Dogs wants us to be impressed that Roy can do the things he does (including interviewing suspects and solving cold cases), seemingly unaware that it’s like asking us to be amazed that Alex Murphy is bulletproof after he’s been turned into Robocop.

The plot, such as it is, is a murder mystery lifted straight from The Machinist, except that The Machinist actually understood how repressed memories work and starred a thin Christian Bale instead of a fat Russell Crowe. Once the snarling engine of prestige epics and hard-boiled character dramas, Crowe now lumbers through VOD thrillers and back-to-back exorcist flicks. This isn’t the grizzled reinvention of an elder statesman, it’s career deflation by slow leak. You keep waiting for a spark, a roar, a whisper of menace. Instead, we get Columbo with lobotomy scars.

Sleeping Dogs ends with a twist, which would usually set me off on a rant. In this case, though, the movie has been cheating from the beginning, so who gives a fuck? A moment that should shock only confirms what you suspected all along: that you’ve been watching a house of cards built on coffee-stained index cards. There’s no pleasure in the reveal, just the weary resignation that nothing added up because nothing was meant to.

The title presumably comes from the phrase ‘let sleeping dogs lie.’ It implies wisdom in leaving past wounds undisturbed. But this film refuses to either disturb with conviction or lie with consistency. It sleepwalks through flashbacks and half-baked revelations, stirring old traumas not for catharsis but for runtime. This dog won’t hunt, Monsignor. Take it to the vet and put it down for good.

Works Cited

Machinist, The. Directed by Brad Anderson, performances by Christian Bale and Jennifer Jason Leigh, Paramount Classics, 2004.
A far superior psychological thriller that accurately explores repressed memory and trauma without treating cognitive disorders like sci-fi MacGuffins.

RoboCop. Directed by Paul Verhoeven, Orion Pictures, 1987.
Mentioned metaphorically as a contrast to the lazy miracle-cure logic in Sleeping Dogs.

Sleeping Dogs. Directed by Adam Cooper, performances by Russell Crowe, Karen Gillan, and Tommy Flanagan, The Avenue, 2024.
The primary object of critique — a neuro-thriller that fumbles basic storytelling, medical accuracy, and tonal consistency.

Verghese, Abraham. The Tennis Partner. HarperCollins, 1998.
Although not cited directly in the review, this memoir contains some of the most humane, precise depictions of memory, medical ethics, and professional detachment in literature, standing in contrast to the shallow treatment in the film.

Alzheimer’s Association. “Alzheimer’s Disease Facts and Figures.” Alzheimer’s & Dementia, vol. 19, no. 1, 2023, pp. 21-57. https://www.alz.org.
Offers the kind of rigorous information the film willfully ignores — a reminder that real lives, not just screenplays, are shaped by this disease.

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