The former hard core singer Dito Montiel earned good reviews a couple of years back for his autobiographical book and movie A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints, the story of growing up in working class Queens, New York, and getting out of the neighbourhood before it claimed you for its own. His second film is disarmingly modest, a hackneyed story about a big lug (Channing Tatum) who comes to New York City with nothing and makes a score in the bare-knuckle fighting scene. This scenario would have felt old hat in a 1930s B movie. Still, it's not what you do - it's the way that you do it. Montiel has trimmed back his artier instincts, but Fighting shares with its predecessor a vividly real and affectionate street hustler's perspective on New York. You can tell he knows what he's talking about from the way he shows how a hastily arranged illegal bout degenerates into a riot after the onlookers start raining punches on the pugilists. Montiel's Big Apple has bite. Terrence Howard is effective as the unexpectedly sympathetic fix-it man who takes Tatum's unschooled bruiser under his wing, and Roger Guenveur Smith steals several scenes as Jack Dancing, a bigshot gambler. As for the bare-knuckle scenes, they're loud, raw and brutal. It's never going to be mistaken for a classic, but within its weight class, Fighting wins on points.
Six pitfalls to avoid when trading company stocks
Following fashion
Investing is cyclical, buying last year's winners often means holding this year's losers.
Losing your balance
You end up with too much exposure to an individual company or sector that has taken your fancy.
Being over active
If you chop and change your portfolio too often, dealing charges will eat up your gains.
Running your losers
Investors hate admitting mistakes and hold onto bad stocks hoping they will come good.
Selling in a panic
If you sell up when the market drops, you have locked yourself out of the recovery.
Timing the market
Even the best investor in the world cannot consistently call market movements.
In numbers: PKK’s money network in Europe
Germany: PKK collectors typically bring in $18 million in cash a year – amount has trebled since 2010
Revolutionary tax: Investigators say about $2 million a year raised from ‘tax collection’ around Marseille
Extortion: Gunman convicted in 2023 of demanding $10,000 from Kurdish businessman in Stockholm
Drug trade: PKK income claimed by Turkish anti-drugs force in 2024 to be as high as $500 million a year
Denmark: PKK one of two terrorist groups along with Iranian separatists ASMLA to raise “two-digit million amounts”
Contributions: Hundreds of euros expected from typical Kurdish families and thousands from business owners
TV channel: Kurdish Roj TV accounts frozen and went bankrupt after Denmark fined it more than $1 million over PKK links in 2013
