Wednesday, April 29, 2020

The Firm - Successful Adaptation of John Grisham's Best Selling Novel

I have mentioned in few of my previous posts that there was a cable TV channel which showed movies from the 1990s and before. So I quite regularly check every night at 7PM on the movie that I could watch. Last night it happened to be this film that I did not see in theaters during its screen time, most probably because during those period, I only went to cinemas and saw huge blockbuster action movies. Anyway, I decided to watch it and want to write about the film.

Brief Story Line

A young Harvard law student Mitch McDeere (Tom Cruise - American Made, Jack Reacher: Never Go Back etc) was about to be one of the top 5 graduate of his class and got lots of offers from big law firms but he decided to join a smaller firm. Together with his wife Abby (Jeanne Tripplehorn - Waterworld, Big Love TV series etc) they moved to Memphis and started new life there. Despite feeling a little uneasy with the firm due to its seemingly interference in personal life, Abby still fully supported Mitch.

Tuesday, April 28, 2020

(2020) Extraction - A Really Bloody Violent Action Movie

The other day I noticed there was a new movie released in Netflix which starred Chris Hemsworth, so I was obviously intrigued by it. I got the chance to see it on Sunday and wanted to write about this movie right away. So here goes.

Brief Story Line

A young teenager named Ovi (Rudhraksh Jaiswal) who happened to be the son of India's drug lord Ovi Mahajan Sr, was kidnapped by his competitor and biggest drug lord from Bangladesh Asif (Priyanshu Painyuli). Ovi Sr assigned his right hand man Saju (Randeep Hoda) to do whatever means necessary to get his son back.

Saju sought the help from a team of mercenaries that included Nik (Golshifteh Farahani), Tyler Rake (Chris Hemsworth - Men in Black: InternationalThe Huntsman: Winter's War etc) and few others. With so many challenges ahead of them including to escape from the pursue of whole city's dirty cops and soldiers in Asif's pocket, Tyler had to find whatever ways necessary to save the kid.

Saturday, April 18, 2020

6 Underground - Another Action Movie from Michael Bay Filled With Spectacular and Outrageous Action Sequence, Perfect for Fans of Such Genre

I saw the trailer to this movie in the promotion of Netflix few times (which looked awesome by the way) and finally got the chance to watch it 2 nights ago. Again due to this stay at home period where we were not able to see any new movies, seeing an action film (even if it's on my TV) was still pretty entertaining. OK, let's start with the the movie now.

Brief Story Line

Story focused on a group of private vigilantes led by a person only known as One (Ryan Reynolds - Detective PikachuLife etc) and consisted of former spy Two (Mélanie Laurent - Now You See Me etc), former hitman Three (Manuel Garcia-Rulfo - Murder on the Orient Express etc), former thief & parkour expert Four (Ben Hardy - Bohemian Rhapsody etc), Five (Adria Arjona - Life of the Party etc) and the driver Six (Dave Franco - The Lego Ninjago Movie etc) who went around the world to stop dangerous criminals without the government consent.

Tuesday, April 14, 2020

(TV SERIES) FBI Season 1 - Another Good Quality Drama from Dick Wolf

I noticed about this series in one of the cable TV some time ago and I did not think too much of it. That is until I was starting to run out of series to catch up especially since the latest seasons have not been completely shown due to covid-19 outbreak. So I gave this one a try since mid of last week. It took me longer than I anticipated as it was having 22 episodes in the first season. OK I will start with the show now.

Brief Synopsis


The series focused on the office of FBI in New York where they work to handle and solve various Federal cases. The elite team consisted of two field Agents Maggie Bell (Missy Peregrym - Rookie Blue TV series etc) and her partner OA Zidan (Zeeko Zaki) who were usually the first ones at the crime scene. 

Monday, April 13, 2020

My Spy - Just Another Spy Comedy Movie with Familiar Recipe but Still Fun Enough

Last night I was told by one of my wife's best friend that some new movies are already available online. This was due to the covid-19 outbreak which made some movie producers and distributors decided to release their films digitally rather than the normal theatrical release. Anyway, I decided to watch this one which I had seen its trailer once or twice before. Well let us get on with it then.

Brief Story Line

JJ (Dave Bautista - Final Score, Hotel Artemis etc) was a former special forces soldier who now worked for CIA under the supervision of his boss David Kim (Ken Jeong - Wonder Park, Crazy Rich Asians etc). However he was terrible in doing spy work and was later given a new easy assignment of doing surveillance on a single mother Kate (Parisa Fitz Henley - Fantasy Island movie etc) and her 9 year old daughter Sophie (Chloe Coleman) who might be connected to their relative that happened to be a major terrorist.

Tuesday, April 7, 2020

I See You - One Well Crafted Psychological Thriller with Multiple Twists that would Truly Shock Audience

Last night there was a new movie that premiered on Fox Movies which I never heard of, but when I saw the very brief synopsis on it, I was really intrigued. And so when the film finally showed at 8PM, I poured my attention to this interesting movie. OK, I'll just get on with it now.

Brief Story Line

Jackie (Helen Hunt - Twister, As Good As It Gets etc) was having a strained relationship with her husband Greg (Jon Tenney - The Closer TV series) and their only son Connor (Judah Lewis - The Babysitter etc) due to something she did before. They lived in a big house which for some reasons started to have strange things happening without proper explanation.

Meanwhile Greg was appointed as lead detective partnering with Officer Spitzky (Gregory Alan Williams - Baywatch TV series etc) in the case of a young boy's disappearance which seemed to be related with similar cases from the past. 

Monday, April 6, 2020

(TV SERIES) Star Trek: Picard season 1 - A Well Crafted Space Adventure Series Focusing on One of the Most Charismatic & Beloved Character of Star Trek Franchise

When I found out there would be a Star Trek series which focused on the character Jean-Luc Picard, I was very excited. During this past weekend, I got the chance to watch the whole first season and could not wait to write about it. Well let's get on with it then.

Brief Story Line

Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart - The Kid Who Would be KingCharlie's Angels 2019 version etc) had retired from Starfleet for 20 years and was living in a chateau in France. When a mysterious young woman named Dahj (Isa Briones) somehow came to his place, Picard had no choice but to find out her background as well as try to save her life. 

With the help from his former Starfleet First Officer named Raffi (Michelle Hurd - Blindspot TV series etc) and her friend Captain Rios (Santiago Cabrera - Merlin TV series etc) who owned a ship, they embarked on a journey to help Picard on his "latest mission". They were also joined by a synthetic life expert Dr. Agnes Jurati (Alison Pill - Vice, Scott Pilgrim vs the World etc) and a Romulan refugee Elnor (Evan Evagora).

Friday, April 3, 2020

The Dead Zone - A Quite Intelligently done Psychological Thriller adapted from Stephen King's novel with Good Performance from Christopher Walken

During the past 2 weeks while the whole day I worked from home, the rest of the time I spent it by catching up various TV series and watching cable TV. There was 1 channel that I like named Hits Movies which specifically shows movies from the year 1990s and before. It was good for me as it has some movies that I could rewatch or some that I had never seen. Like last night it showed this movie adapted from Stephen King's novel of the same title. Anyway, I really felt like writing this one. So here goes.

Brief Story Line

John Smith (Christopher Walken - The Jungle Book live version, Catch Me if You Can etc) was a school teacher who was in serious relationship with fellow teacher named Sarah (Brooke Adams - Invasion of the Body Snatchers etc). After involved in a heavy accident, John was in a coma for years and being treated in a hospital managed by Dr. Weizak (Herbert Lom). When he finally woke up, John found that everything has changed around him. But the biggest change was he had some kind of psychic ability where he could see someone's past or future.