(TV SERIES) Spider-Noir Season 1 - Wonderfully Written, Brilliantly Acted & Entertaining Combination of Superhero & Noir Genre

Yesterday I got notification from Prime Video that a new series was released. It was a superhero series that I was aware few days ago which immediately made me interested. Amazingly I was able to complete the full season last night so I can write about it today. OK let's just get to it now.

Brief Story Line

Set in the 1930s New York, Ben Reilly (Nicolas Cage - The Croods: A New Age, Teen Titans Go! To the Movies etc) was working as Private Investigator and assisted by his trusted secretary Janet Ruiz (Karen Rodriguez - The Hunting Wives TV series etc). Secretly Ben was also a superhero called the Spider who fought against crimes in the city. But after something happened 5 years before, Ben stopped becoming the Spider which made mob boss Finn Byrne aka Silvermane (Brendan Gleeson - Paddington 2, The Banshees of Inisherin etc) was able to control the city.

(2021) Nightmare Alley - Another Artistic Work by Guillermo del Toro

After playing in Indonesian theaters a while back, this movie was finally released on Disney+ few days ago. Back then, my wife and I were not comfortable yet to go to see movies in the cinemas during the surge of Omicron variant of Covid-19. So it was quite a blessing that we could see this less than 2 months since its release date. Without further ado, let's see how the movie was.

Brief Story Line

Set in the 1940s, Stan (Bradley Cooper - A Star is Born, Silver Linings Playbook etc) got a job in a carnival owned by Clem (Willem Dafoe - Spider-man: No Way Home, Murder on the Orient Express etc) who managed various acts, including a geek show where a wild person ate live chicken during the act. While in the carnival, Stan assisted Madame Zeema (Toni Collette - Hereditary, Unlocked etc) and learned about the psychic act from Zeema's partner Pete (David Strathairn - The Firm, Nomadland etc).

(TV SERIES) Cowboy Bebop Season 1 - Probably Better if it is an Original Series Rather than a Live Version Remake of the 1998 Popular Anime Series

As mentioned in one of my earlier post, last week there were a bunch of new series and movies released on Netflix. I happened to start watching this few days ago, which took me a while to finish as I could only see 2 or maximum 3 episodes per night. Anyway it was something that interest me as it was a live version of an anime series that I watched first (also available on Netflix) and enjoyed. OK, let's get to it then.

Brief Story Line

Set in the year 2171, Spike Spiegel (John Cho - Wish Dragon, Star Trek Beyond etc) was working as a bounty hunter together with his partner Jet Black (Mustafa Shakir - Luke Cage season 2, The Deuce TV series etc) on their spaceship called Bebop. They later met with another bounty hunter named Faye Valentine (Daniella Pineda - Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, Mercy Black etc) who subsequently became part of their crew.

Reminiscence - A Science Fiction Movie with Great Idea but Probably Better Suited as TV Series

As I said in my previous posts, I looked for interesting new movies on various platforms in the beginning of the month. And this time, I noticed this film to be shown on HBO Go on 4th October 2021. It was definitely an exciting option since the movie itself was only released in the US theaters & HBO Max 2 months ago. All right, I'll get to it now.

Brief Story Line

Story was set in the future, where people invented a machine which could help relive memories. Nick Bannister (Hugh Jackman - Logan, The Greatest Showman etc) and Watts (Thandiwe Newton - Solo: A Star Wars Story, Crash etc) were operating a business using their own machine. When a young woman named Mae (Rebecca Ferguson - The Kid Who Would be King, Doctor Sleep etc) came to their place and wanted to use the machine, Nick immediately fell for her and started to develop relationship despite Watts' mistrust.

The Poison Rose - Poorly Done Supposedly Film Noir

Yesterday the only major Hollywood movie released was 1917 which I had seen earlier during its special screening. So I decided to see a John Travolta movie which had been released a day before and was playing in the theater near our home. I saw this by myself as usually this kind of film was not really my wife's cup of tea. Well let's get into it now.

Brief Story Line

Set in the year 1978, a Private Investigator based in Los Angeles named Carson Phillips (John Travolta - Grease, Swordfish etc) was hired for a case involving the disappearance of a wealthy woman in his hometown in Texas. Despite his reluctance, Carson still took the case where he met Doctor Mitchell (Brendan Fraser - Doom Patrol TV series, Encino Man etc), the head of the psychiatric facility where the person was supposed to be treated. While doing his investigation, Carson met with his old love from 20 years ago named Jayne (Famke Janssen - Primal, Taken trilogy etc) who was now a widow with her only daughter Becky (Ella Bleu Travolta).