Flick
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Flick (2008 film)
Flick is a campy British horror film written and directed by David Howard, and starring Hugh O'Conor and Faye Dunaway. It had its theatrical release in 2008, and the DVD of the film was released in the United Kingdom on 19 October 2009. The film was shot in and around Cardiff, Pontypool, Newbridge, Caerphilly, Briton Ferry Wales.
Story
Memphis cop Lieutenant McKenzie is called in to investigate a series of strange deaths and weird sightings following the resurrection of a murder victim, a local boy, Johnny 'Flick' Taylor (Hugh O'Conor) from the 1950s who is brought back to life in modern times and tries to find his teenage sweetheart named Sally who is now aged 62 and also to seek revenge for his death.
Cast
Faye Dunaway as Lieutenant Annie McKenzie
Julia Foster as Sally Andrews
John Woodvine as Dr. Nickel
Michelle Ryan as Sandra
Sara Harris Davies as Diane
Hugh O'Conor as Johnny
Hayley Angel Wardle as Young Sally
Mark Benton as Sergeant Miller
Liz Smith as Johnny's Mother
Rhys Parry Jones as Dockside official
Richard Hawley as Bobby Blade
Kerrie Hayes as Young Sue
Flick (fencing)
The flick is a technique used in modern fencing. It is used in foil and to a lesser extent, épée.
The 1980s saw the widespread use of "flicks" — hits delivered with a whipping motion which bends the blade around the more traditional parries, and makes it possible to touch otherwise inaccessible areas, such as the back of the opponent. This has been regarded by some fencers as an unacceptable departure from the tradition of realistic combat, where only rigid blades would be used, while others feel that the flick adds to the variety of possible attacks and targets, thereby expanding the game of foil.
Technique
The flick consists of an angulated attack with a whipping motion that requires the defender to make a widened parry, and exploits the flexibility of the blade. If parried, a properly executed flick whips the attacker's blade around the parry. This is a valid strategy in modern fencing, since any depression of the tip with sufficient force while contacting valid target area constitutes a touch. In pre-modern fencing, judging was done by side judges, so a touch had to land and stick long enough to be reliably counted.
Scorn
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Scorn (DC Comics)
Scorn is a fictional character in the DC comics universe. He first appeared in Superman (vol. 2) #122 (April 1997), and for a time was a regular supporting character in the Superman line of comics.
Fictional Biography
Ceritak, son of Cerimul, was born in the Bottle City of Kandor, an extradimensional place populated by a variety of creatures from all over the universe. Most of the inhabitants descended from beings imprisoned in Kandor at some time either by the living computer Brainiac or the magician Tolos who stole the bottle city from Brainiac. The species that Ceritak belongs to is distinguishing itself by its dark-blue skin, stout physique and a set of two horns sprouting from their foreheads.
Although his father Cerimul served as one of the elite councillors issued by Tolos with the assignment of governing Kandor, Ceritak developed into a rebellious young man as he grew up. Obsessed with escaping from the imprisonment in Kandor, Ceritak seized the opportunity of a transitory disruption in the energy wall separating Kandor's dimension from the dimension outside the city.
Scorn (Transformers)
Scorn is a fictional character from the Transformers franchise. He first appears in the fourth of Michael Bay's Transformers films, Age of Extinction. He is portrayed as the demolition specialist of the Dinobots, a small subfaction of Autobots that transform into dinosaurs.
Live-action film series
Scorn is the demolition specialist among the Dinobots in Transformers: Age of Extinction; he transforms into a mechanical three-sailed Spinosaurus.
Age of Extinction film
Scorn was among the legendary knights Lockdown kept prisoner aboard his ship, and was inadvertently rescued when the Autobots liberated Optimus Prime and stole a detachable section of Lockdown's ship. Optimus later freed him and the other Dinobots to request their help in defeating Galvatron's forces, and when he finished beating Grimlock into submission, Scorn and the others joined the Autobots charge into Hong Kong, carrying Crosshairs on his back. He later helped to escort the "Seed" to a safe location, however Lockdown returned and attempted to recapture the Dinobots and Optimus using a magnetic tractor-beam, but the Autobot leader managed to destroy it before they were caught. Once Lockdown was defeated, Optimus set the Dinobots free, and Scorn and the others headed off. Like the rest of the Dinobots, he isn't referred to by name as he cannot speak, but Crosshairs later names him "Spike".
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