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Routledge Handbook of International Sport Business

Mark Dodds

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Contemporary sport business is international. From global sport competitions and events, sponsorship...

Gentleman and Player: The Story of Colin Cowdrey, Cricket's Most Elegant and Charming Batsman

Andrew Murtagh

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Colin Cowdrey is remembered for the elegance of his strokeplay; but there was more to this complex...

Good Living Street: The Fortunes of My Viennese Family

Tim Bonyhady

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In 1900 Vienna was one of the most exciting places to live in the world. Its glamorous high society...

Migration, Culture Conflict and Crime

Joshua D. Freilich, Moshe Addad and Graeme Newman

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This title was first published in 2002: The issue of immigration and crime in all of its many...

Awix (3310 KP) rated Wonder Woman 1984 (2020) in Movies

Dec 17, 2020

Wonder Woman 1984 (2020)

2020 | Adventure, Fantasy

6.1

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The first big superhero movie of the summer arrives - if you're in Australia, anyway. (Cheers, 2020.) The setting has been updated to the mid 1980s, which in no way resembles the present day, of course: Wonder Woman must enter the White House and do battle with a failed businessman, TV personality and con man who has stolen the power of the US presidency. Of course there's a bit more going on to dress this up and stop the cute-little-red-cap crowd from getting pouty and boycotting it, but that's the most striking element of the plot - interesting to see a blockbuster with a political edge to it, even if that edge is somewhat disguised.

Apart from that, this is a good, slick, lively blockbuster, very colourful and with a nicely positive outlook to it. Some of the characterisation perhaps undercuts the film's feminist agenda - Wonder Woman's chief character point is that she's sad because she's got no boyfriend, while assistant villain Cheetah's big issue is basically being jealous of women who can walk in heels - and Chris Pine is an absence of hiatus, as usual, but in every respect this is a decent blockbuster.