Sunday, October 10, 2021

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings - Very Enjoyable and Entertaining Marvel's Latest Superhero Movie

After seeing a new movie that I highly anticipated earlier in the cinema, my wife was feeling adventurous and suggested us to watch another movie which had been released for a while now. As it was a Marvel superhero movie, and waiting for it to be released legally on streaming platform would take more than a month, we thought it would be nice to do it then. So we bought the tickets for the next show and ended up having an unexpected movie marathon. All right, I'll get to it then.

Brief Story Line

Shang-Chi (Simu Liu - Kim's Convenience TV series etc) was an under achiever intelligent guy who was best friend with Katy (Awkwafina - Raya and the Last DragonCrazy Rich Asians etc) and worked as valet driver. It was later found out that Shang-Chi was actually the son of Xu Wenwu (Tony Leung - Monster Hunt 2, Infernal Affairs etc) who was the leader of Ten Ring organizations and was trying to collect the jade pendants held by Shang-Chi and his younger sister Xialing (Zhang Meng'er) with the help from his right hand man Razor Fist (Florian Munteanu - Creed 2 etc).

No Time to Die - A Satisfying Finale of Daniel Craig's Era as The Iconic British Spy

My wife and I had not been to the cinemas for > 1.5 years due to Covid-19 pandemic. But sadly even though we had tried our best by following health protocol and keeping our outside activities to the very minimum, we still got infected. After our recovery and when the theaters re-opened, we decided to see movies in the cinemas again while our immunity was still very strong. However, due to some restrictions, only few cinemas that we could choose from. And finally we got the chance to see this movie in one of the cinemas, which I got to say was an unforgettable & emotional experience. OK, without further ado, here's more on the movie.

Brief Story Line

Few years after his retirement, Commander James Bond (Daniel Craig - Knives OutThe Girl in the Spider's Web etc) was asked by his friend from CIA, Felix Leiter (Jeffrey Wright - Westworld TV series etc) and his colleague Logan Ash (Billy Magnussen - Made for Love TV series etc) to retrieve a scientist Valdo Obruchev (David Dencik - The Chestnut Man TV series etc). Despite his reluctance, Bond decided to help Felix where he would be assisted by Agent Paloma (Ana de Armas - Blade Runner 2049The Informer etc).

Friday, October 8, 2021

(TV Series) The Chestnut Man - Pretty Dark Mystery Thriller Series Based on Successful Danish Novel

This series was released more than a week ago but I just started to watch it in the last 3 days. The premise looked interesting enough about solving the case of mysterious killing. All right let's get more to it now.

Brief Story Line

Detective Naia Thulin (Danica Curcic - The Mist TV series etc) was planning to transfer to Cyber crime as she wanted to spend more time with her young daughter. But before she left, there was a new murder case in Copenhagen where the victim was a woman with one of her hand cut off and a small figurine made by chestnut left at the crime scene. Naia was asked to partner with Mark Hess (Mikkel Boe Følsgaard - A Perfectly Normal Family etc) to investigate the case where they were supported by the forensic guy Simon Genz (David Dencik - Chernobyl mini series etc).