4 h. ago Tape review – reverential Hong Kong remake of Richard Linklater drama of toxic masculinity

Linklater’s ahead-of-the-curve adaptation of a 1999 play about an alleged rape is reconfigured to try and reflect current concernsRichard Linklater’s 2001 movie Tape, and Stephen Belber’s 1999 play that preceded it, were ahead of the curve in their targeting of male sexual violence, blurred lines of consent, performative apologies and self-victimising aggressors. Now comes a remake from Hong Kong for the post-#MeToo era. It makes a few updates, such as situating the film in an Airbnb apartment (instead of a motel room), where two old high-school friends convene. But, somewhat too reverential towards the original, this new version from director Bizhan Tong doesn’t do enough either conceptually or aesthetically to dig down into today’s shifted gender battle lines.In Tong’s scenario, flippant lifeguard and small-time drug-dealer Wing (Adam Pak) invites his straight-laced school buddy Chong (Kenny Kwan) over to shoot the breeze at his apartment. Initially they smoke spliffs and banter t...

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5 h. ago Drug dealers found in flat surrounded by crack cocaine ordered to pay back £600

Layton Preece, 51, and Dylan Young, 21, were found in a state of panic when police paid a surprise visit to a one-bedroom flat

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57 h. ago Local man arrested following investigation into crack cocaine possession

Local man arrested following investigation into crack cocaine possession  CT Insider

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60 h. ago Nearly 30 Grams Of Crack Cocaine Seized, New London Police Say

Nearly 30 Grams Of Crack Cocaine Seized, New London Police Say  Patch

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61 h. ago Nearly 30 grams of crack cocaine seized during arrest in New London

Nearly 30 grams of crack cocaine seized during arrest in New London  WFSB

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63 h. ago Man arrested after search allegedly reveals nearly 30 grams of crack cocaine in New London

Man arrested after search allegedly reveals nearly 30 grams of crack cocaine in New London  WTNH.com

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63 h. ago How I survived prison: From Baby Hulk, the Lithuanian giant who became my friend, to the drug dealer who took me under his wing

There was a way of behaving in the locker rooms when I was playing tennis. Whenever another player was in there, you had to show your masculine side, put on a front, show no weakness.

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3 d. ago Judge asks 'Paco' drug dealers to pass on message to associates

A judge said those who caught bringing Class A drugs into Swansea 'can expect a very long stay in this city'

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3 d. ago Freebase cocaine 'cut with something dangerous' as man dies and others take unwell in Glasgow

Health chiefs have warned that crack cocaine - otherwise known as freebase cocaine - could be getting mixed with something dangerous.

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4 d. ago Drug dealer who fled to South America to pay back £1 despite making £115,000

Paul Harris, 28, ran a crime gang based in southeast Wales which supplied commercial amounts of cocaine and ketamine.

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5 d. ago Snapchat allows drug dealers to operate openly on platform, finds Danish study

Social media platform accused of failing to filter out obvious usernames such as ‘coke’, ‘weed’ and ‘molly’Snapchat has been accused by a Danish research organisation of leaving an “overwhelming number” of drug dealers to openly operate on Snapchat, making it easy for children to buy substances including cocaine, opioids and MDMA.The social media platform has said it proactively uses technology to filter out profiles selling drugs. However, research by Digitalt Ansvar (Digital Accountability), a Danish research organisation that promotes responsible digital development, has found evidence of a failure to moderate drug-related language in usernames. It also accused Snapchat of failing to respond adequately to reports of profiles openly selling drugs. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Drug dealer with 'positive childhood' ordered to pay back £18,000

Ryan Lewis, 28, was found in possession of cocaine, MDMA, LSD, and ketamine as well as thousands of pounds in cash

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5 d. ago Snapchat allowing drug dealers to operate openly on platform, says Danish research body

Social media platform also accused of failing to filter out obvious key usernames like ‘coke’, ‘weed’ and ‘molly’Snapchat has been accused of leaving an “overwhelming number” of drug dealers to openly operate on Snapchat, making it easy for children to buy substances including cocaine, opioids and MDMA, by a Danish research organisation.The social media platform has said it proactively uses technology to filter out profiles selling drugs. But research by Digitalt Ansvar (Digital Accountability), a Danish research organisation that promotes responsible digital development, has found evidence of a failure to moderate drug-related language in usernames. It also accused Snapchat of failing to respond adequately to reports of profiles openly selling drugs. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago A personal dealer on the staff and a terrifying alter ego even he was scared of... this is what it was really like to live with David Bowie

The last surviving member of David Bowie's Spiders from Mars band says the singer was a 'strange bloke who you could not discuss the football scores with'.

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6 d. ago AKA Charlie Sheen review – he shows no genuine remorse for all the terrifying things he’s done

This flimsy tell-all about the actor’s decades-long addiction to pills, alcohol and crack-cocaine is far too light on contrition or self-reflection. You pity everyone around himIf it comes as a shock to anyone that at some point in the grip of a decades-long addiction to pills, booze and crack cocaine the essentially heterosexual Charlie Sheen occasionally “turned over the menu” and had sex with men, then I am delighted. I did not know such pockets of naivety could still exist in this benighted world. You sweet things. Enjoy your time!That this is the fact that has made headlines (the few there have been) around the release of the two-part documentary AKA Charlie Sheen is testimony to how little new information there is in it. How, really, could it be otherwise? Every one of the three acts – which in the film he labels “Partying”, “Partying with problems” and “Just problems” – of his adult life has been comprehensively documented by the media in real time. Sometimes that was via sto...

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6 d. ago Corrupt police calls handler stole confidential info about probe for drug dealer pal

Dundee Sheriff Court was told that Moran spent three years abusing the force's computer network to access sensitive information to pass on.

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6 d. ago Teenage girls among four accused of murdering man after ‘crack cocaine row’

Eymaiyah Bradshaw-McKoy, Mia Campos-Jorge, Jaidee Bingham and Harry Gittins are on trial charged with murdering Anthony Marks.

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8 d. ago The real life 'Dexter': Brazilian serial killer slaughtered over 100 people

Brazilian serial killer Pedro Rodrigues Filho, who is said to have killed more than 100 people, is believed to have only targeted criminals like murderers and rapists.

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9 d. ago 'Nothin' to do with me!' Drug dealer's astonishing reaction after police discover £50,000 worth of cocaine in a car he's stolen

This is the moment police officers dramatically surround a stolen car and recover £50,000 of cocaine at a service station in Feering, Essex.

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1 week ago British city turned to hell by crack cocaine, fentanyl and brick

Bleak scenes are played out every day in the centre of this city, where a world of addiction and despair exists alongside the shoppers, tourists and office workers on their lunch breaks.

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