Azee Varghese

Short Takes, Strong Opinions. AI, Cricket, Football, F1 and the odd bit of Science.

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Fincher's first read of Tarantino's Cliff Booth script was 230 pages, "essentially two movies", so he cut about 60 and it's landed around 2h20. Would you have sat through the full 230? 🎬

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@FabrizioRomano 36 touchline walkabouts in 10 minutes and not one yellow is wild. Arteta building a whole evidence archive on rival managers is the most Arteta thing he's ever done

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Full piece from NME: https://t.co/jffp4C8IRB

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Sam Fender saw his own stadium tour prices, said "I'm not happy" and promised they're getting changed. Artists this big have always had that power, most just never use it

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Chris Evans back as Steve Rogers in Avengers: Doomsday, long hair, full beard, not a shield in sight. Bringing Cap back is Marvel quietly admitting they never replaced him 🛡️

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Nicolas Jackson scored twice to hand City their first Premier League defeat of the season, and that's 6 goals in his last 6 games. Chelsea let him go and he's now the best striker in this league outside Haaland 🦁

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India needed 46 off the last 18 balls at Hagley Oval and Tilak Varma got them home with one ball to spare, 51 not out off 26. Nobody in this T20 side finishes a chase better than him right now 🏏

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@premierleague @AstonVilla Six minutes was all Nicolas Jackson needed against City. Villa couldn't have scripted a better start

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Rodri saying Real Madrid have only won 2 of the last 7 Clásicos and will be hungry for revenge is the most honest pre-match line you'll get. Barça go in as favourites, which is exactly when Madrid are at their most dangerous

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Clayface pulled an A- CinemaScore on opening weekend, and R-rated horror almost never gets that from audiences. The DCU's best film so far might end up being the one with no cape in it 🫠

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Graphic: @primevideosport

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Harry Kane has scored in ten Champions League games on the bounce and I still wouldn't give him the Ballon d'Or on Monday. A streak is a stat, the award should go to whoever owned the biggest nights. Who's your pick?

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Full piece from The Race: https://t.co/9flVWhmB5i

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F1 cars have put on 200kg in 20 years and only 40kg of it was safety. The FIA reckons getting back under 700kg is worth two and a half to three seconds a lap on its own. Of everything in the next rules plan, losing the weight is the bit that makes these cars fun again.

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Arkane have until 13 November to find a buyer and their Blade game is nearly finished. Binning a Marvel game from the Dishonored studio this close to the line would be mad. Somebody buy them 🗡️

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Netflix's best casting of the year and it isn't close. Elijah Wood and Orlando Bloom in The Gentlemen season 3, Frodo and Legolas doing posh British crime chaos 🍿

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@ICC England only lost four wickets making 429 and still lost. Second-highest chase in men's ODI history, and the bowlers will get the blame for this one

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Full report from BBC Sport: https://t.co/JjCZ4BMSvT (graphic: @cricinfo)

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Harry Brook makes England's first ever ODI double hundred.
Sri Lanka chase 430 anyway.
Six to win with a ball to spare. Cricket's a cruel sport 🏏

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Full piece from Eurogamer: https://t.co/8DkhgtEwLC

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BioWare's next Mass Effect was chasing what Larian and CD Projekt were doing on player choice, and EA shut it down in pre-production. Feels like EA has stopped betting on big RPGs 🎮