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Jason Momoa Bulked Up For Game Of Thrones By Eating Pizza

One of the stranger stories of last year was the news that Jason Momoa had been subjected to online body-shaming after some paparazzi pictures of the actor on vacation went viral. Yes, the same Jason Momoa who shot to mainstream attention as the hulking Khal Drogo on Game of Thrones and then went on to headline the highest-grossing DC Comics adaptation ever made in Aquaman, a movie where he spent a lot of time shirtless to show off his ripped superhero physique.

Apparently, some fans were expecting the actor to maintain that look all-year round, which takes a whole lot of effort. Despite being in better shape than probably every single one of the people that criticized his so-called ‘dad bod’, and if that’s somebody letting themselves go then who knows what that says about the rest of us, Momoa was quick to laugh it off.

In a recent interview, the 41 year-old admitted that while bulking up to become Khal Drogo, he gorged himself on almost everything in sight, including huge amounts of pizza. We’ve all eaten an entire pizza in one sitting before, but it would be fair to say the effects would have been quite the opposite.

“Some guys are like genetically ripped and have abs, and I don’t. I generally don’t have a six-pack, which has been my nemesis forever. I’ve always got a solid four-pack, maybe even a two-pack, and that’s all about diet which is challenging for me.”

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Momoa clearly left an impression, with Khal Drogo becoming a firm fan favorite despite only appearing in eleven episodes of Game of Thrones, but he’ll be remaining in the Warner Bros. sandbox for the foreseeable future. The Braven star will next be seen in Zack Snyder’s Justice League on HBO Max, as well as playing a major part in Denis Villenueve’s delayed Dune next fall, before heading back to Atlantis to reprise the role of Arthur Curry in James Wan’s Aquaman 2.



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Lockie Ferguson & Jimmy Neesham Star as New Zealand Down West Indies in 'Topsy-turvy' Opening T20

Paceman Lockie Ferguson unleashed a devastating five-wicket barrage as New Zealand downed the West Indies in a roller coaster Twenty20 series opener in Auckland on Friday. The match -- the first international cricket played in New Zealand for almost nine months -- produced a nail-biting finale as the Black Caps reached 179-5 in the final over after being set a target of 176.

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IND vs AUS 1st ODI: As India Fail to Chase 375, Memes Bring Smile To All Faces

India lost the first ODI by 66 runs but the fans can take solace in social media which was flooded with all sort of memes.

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All-round Australia Beat India by 66 Runs in First ODI

Tons from Steve Smith and Aaron Finch followed by a good show with the ball from Adam Zampa and Josh Hazlewood saw Australia beat India in the first ODI.

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Australian Umpire Fined 5000 AUD for Arguing Son’s Dismissal in Under-13 Game

A leading cricket umpire of Australia was fined 5000 AUD after he argued his son’s dismissal in an under-13 game. Gerard Abood, who is a member of Cricket Australia’s panel, was sanctioned by the body on Thursday for questioning a decision that saw his son getting run out for 98 runs on the final delivery of the innings of a match held on November 15 in Sydney.

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India vs Australia: BCCI Finally Breaks Silence on Why Rohit Sharma Didn't Travel to Australia

The BCCI finally cleared the "confusion" on why Rohit Sharma did not travel with the team to Australia.

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India vs Australia: Adam Gilchrist Mistakes Navdeep Saini for Mohammed Siraj; Apologises

Last week, tragedy struck as Siraj’s father passed away due to a lung ailment in Hyderabad. The 26-year–old pacer was training in Sydney at the time.

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This Throwback Video of MS Dhoni Shaking a Leg with Sakshi and Ziva Will Make You Fall in Love With Him Again

Former Indian skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni might have bid adieu to the international cricket, but no one can ever take his place in the hearts of millions of his fans.

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Happy Birthday Suresh Raina: Top Five Knocks by Southpaw in His Cricket Career

Suresh Raina is one of those cricketers who has impressed the game lovers with his performances in all three formats.

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Shoaib Akhtar Loses Cool, Slams NZC for Threatening 'Greatest Country Pakistan' to Send Back Home

Former Pakistan fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar has taken a swipe at New Zealand Cricket (NZC) over the deportation threat to the Pakistan cricket team. Six members of Pakistan cricket team, who are on a tour of New Zealand, have tested positive for COVID-19. In view of the situation, New Zealand’s Ministry of Health has warned the Pakistan team that they will be sent back home if they don’t follow Covid-19 standard operating procedures (SOPs).

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India vs Australia: Sanjay Manjrekar Posts Selfie Wearing 1992 World Cup Jersey

Former cricketer and commentator Sanjay Manjrekar is back in the commentary box and seems quite excited about it. On Friday, ahead of India’s first ODI match against Australia in Sydney, he posted a picture of him wearing his old jersey from the 1992 World Cup, when coloured jerseys were worn for the first time in an ICC tournament. This year team India is wearing a similar navy blue jersey having multi-coloured stripes around the shoulder, only with different logos of sponsors.

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Happy Birthday Suresh Raina: Here’s a Look at His Top 5 Knocks in The IPL

Suresh Raina etched his name in the Indian Premier League (IPL) books for his consistent match-winning performances in all editions.

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Suresh Raina Enjoys 34th Birthday with Family in Maldives; See Pics of their Lavish Breakfast

Indian cricketer Suresh Raina is celebrating his 34th birthday in Maldives with his family. Sharing pictures from his trip to Maldives on Instagram, the cricketer can be seen sitting in a pool with his wife Priyanka Chaudhary Raina and their daughter Gracia. In one of the pictures, we can see that there is a delicious breakfast spread in front of them. A close-up picture shows the lavish breakfast in the pool with veggies, fruits and other healthy breakfast items.

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Happy Birthday, Suresh Raina: Wishes Pour in from Cricket Fraternity as Southpaw Turns 34

Former India cricketer Suresh Raina who represented India in 226 ODIs, 78 T20Is and 18 Tests turns 34 today. Over an international career spanning over 13 years, the aggressive left-handed batsman has made significant contributions in team India’s campaigns. He announced his retirement from all forms of international cricket in August this year.

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India vs Australia: Protesters Invade SCG with Placards Against Adani's Coal Project Down Under

As the first ODI between India and Australia got underway, the play was interrupted for a while as two protesters made their way to the field before being escorted out. One of those invaders held a placard denouncing Adani Group's coal project in Australia. The incident happened when Navdeep Saini was getting ready to bowl sixth over the innings.

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India Sport Black Armbands in Memory of Phil Hughes & Dean Jones

The Indian cricket team are wearing black armbands in memory of Phil Hughes and Dean Jones during the first ODI against Australia at Sydney on Friday.

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India vs Australia: Players Take Stand Against Racism in 'Barefoot Circle' Ceremony Before Match

Players of both the Australian and Indian cricket teams on Friday paid tribute to Australia's indigenous people by taking part in a 'barefoot circle' ceremony before the start of the first ODI.

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26/11 Mumbai Terror Attack: Sachin Tendulkar, Virat Kohli Remember Lives Lost & Sacrifices of Security Personnel

Twelve years after the deadly 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks, the memories still haunt Indians. On November 26, 2020, ten terrorists of Pakistan-based outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba carried out a series of shooting and blasts across the city which left at least 166 people dead and more than 300 wounded.

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'Mingling in Hallways, Not Wearing Masks' - NZ Health Director Slams Pakistan Players for COVID Breach

New Zealand's director-general of health Dr Ashley Bloomfield slammed Pakistan for not sticking to quarantine protocols after six players turned positive on landing in the country.

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India vs Australia 2020 Live Score, 1st ODI Match at Sydney: Ind Return to International Cricket After Big Gap

India vs Australia 2020, Live Cricket Score of 1st ODI Match: India return to international arena after a huge gap and look to set the tone for a long tour. Australia are on a high after winning the series against England in England prior to the IPL.

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India vs Australia: Ishant Sharma Ruled Out of Test Series, T Natarajan Added to ODI Squad

Fast bowler Ishant Sharma has been ruled out of India's upcoming four-match Test series against Australia, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) said on Thursday.

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Horror Fans Freaking Out After John Carpenter Reveals He’s A Gamer

John Carpenter is rightly known as a master of horror. He’s responsible for classics like Halloween, The Thing, Prince of Darkness and They Live (not to mention kickass action movies Big Trouble in Little China, Escape From New York and Assault on Precinct 13). He’s also playing a major role in Blumhouse’s new Halloween trilogy, providing a new synth score for each movie. His work on Halloween (2018) was incredible and I can’t wait to see what he comes up over the next two years for Halloween Kills and Halloween Ends.

But today he’s getting a lot of positive buzz on social media due to his praise for the recently released Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla. This is the latest in the long-running Assassin’s Creed game series, with this instalment building on the open-world designs of Origins and Odyssey with a Viking twist. Carpenter seems to be loving it and has been praising it on Twitter:

The official Assassin’s Creed account was honored by the praise, saying:

Fans also chimed in, many surprised that the 72-year-old director knows his way around a controller:

Longtime Carpenter fans will know that he’s been a gamer for years. He’s previously mentioned in interviews that he got into the medium way back in the early 90s when he began playing his son’s copy of Sonic the Hedgehog on Genesis.

“I loved the game. I loved everything about it. I especially loved the music. There was something about the whole sound and feel of the Sonic games and suddenly I’m so much younger and it’s the ‘90s.”

He’s credited his history of gaming with keeping his mind and reflexes sharp and kept up with current releases. Over the summer he explained that he was a big fan of The Last of Us Part 2, saying: “It’s beautiful. So far I’ve done very little zombie killing. I’ve had a snowball fight and played guitar.”

I’d love to see him getting involved in making a game. There was a The Thing game on PlayStation 2, Xbox and PC in 2002 and he contributed to F.E.A.R. 3, but it’d be great to see something along the lines of Alien: Isolation but with Michael Myers stalking you. C’mon developers, let’s make it happen!



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Mosul Review

Netflix have delivered a solid string of action movies this year, from the heightened superhero antics of Project Power to the gritty comic book fantasy of The Old Guard, but the most popular of them all was Chris Hemsworth’s Extraction, which became the streaming service’s most-watched original movie ever.

Helmed by a first-time director and produced through Joe and Anthony Russo’s AGBO company, there are superficial similarities between Extraction and Matthew Michael Carnahan’s Mosul, but the latter is an altogether more realistic and gripping exercise in tension than Sam Hargrave’s bone-crunching B-movie.

Based on a New Yorker article, Mosul follows a inexperienced cop paired up with an elite SWAT team on the streets of the titular Iraqi city. Falling in line with a squad who have ascended to almost mythical status in the eyes of the locals, Adam Bessa’s Kawa is taken under the wing of Suhail Dabbach’s veteran Major Jasem as the unit advance through war-torn and lawless territory to try and destroy an enemy outpost.

On paper, the setup sounds incredibly familiar. Anyone with even a vague knowledge of the action thriller will be fully aware that the rookie cop pairing up with a grizzled veteran has been done a thousand times before, but Mousl approaches the familiar tropes from a fresh angle. For one thing, the movie is entirely filmed in the local Arabic dialect, adding an extra layer of authenticity to the proceedings. Secondly, instead of introducing the characters and their backstories with the standard expositional dialogue, Carnahan dives straight into the horrors of war and lets the action inform the cast.

Text flashes up onscreen during the establishing shots to set the stage, before Mosul instantly explodes into life with bullets and blood flying across every frame, dropping the viewer straight into the heat of the visceral action. The choreography on display might be reminiscent of Extraction, but Carnahan focuses on the urgency and the sense of overwhelming danger instead of glorifying the pyrotechnics like a standard action movie would.

The narrative is constantly moving forward, but instead of punctuating the story with action sequences as the genre tends to do, Mosul is essentially a wall-to-wall assault on the senses that only slows the pace down intermittently and very briefly, leaving audiences to catch their breath at the same time as the SWAT team. It’s a wise creative decision, because not only does it allow us to organically find out more about these characters, but the non-stop barrage of attacks they find themselves caught up in have us sympathizing with their plight in the knowledge that this is a true story.

We’ve all seen movies like Mosul fall into overwrought and heavy-handed territory before, but the central duo of Bessa and Dabbach pitch their performances perfectly so that the relationship between Kawa and Jasem never comes close to descending into formula. The rest of the team might be painted in fairly broad strokes, but Bessa’s wide-eyed fear and Dabbach’s world-weary intensity create an engaging dynamic.

At a lean 101 minutes, Kawa’s character arc could have felt incredibly rushed in less capable hands, as he evolves from a terrified rookie to becoming integral member of the team in what’s essentially real-time, but the action and story provide enough development and obstacles for him to overcome that you completely buy it. Jasem might be the kindly father figure of the unit, but he’s also a capable and dangerous opponent that always knows exactly where his priorities lie. Underwhelming turns from either of the leads could have sank the movie entirely, but Bessa and Dabbach are nothing short of phenomenal.

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Set in the space of a single day with a lot of ground to cover, Mosul almost inevitably rushes through several big moments, and as a result they don’t land as heavily as they should. That being said, the social and political undercurrent of the story is delicately handled and never becomes too preachy or on-the-nose, which is another trap that many similar movies have fallen into in the past.

Instead, the motivations are revealed and the plot advanced through the interactions between the characters, and it feels like an extension of the story as opposed to slowing things down for the sake of an exposition dump to get everyone up to speed. The barbs being traded back and forth by the opposing factions are all rooted in fact and reality, and despite being being an American production filmed in Morocco, there’s nothing about Mosul that feels even remotely staged or ‘movie-like’.
Mosul might not reinvent the wheel in terms of either the action thriller or modern day war genres, but Carnahan has delivered a hugely accomplished debut that’s often harrowing to watch but never anything less than eminently watchable, packed with both nail-biting tension and impeccably-crafted set pieces that mark him out as a director well worth keeping an eye on.

Mosul is now available to stream on Netflix, and you can check out our exclusive interview with director Matthew Michael Carnahan here.



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