Monarch Legacy of Monsters (2023): Series Review

                                                                                  

Jim's Review

First three episodes begin to unravel the secrets of Monarch and they begin to expose the legacy of monsters and how they still rule the world.

9 out of 10 stars

Series plot

Following the thunderous battle between Godzilla and the Titans that leveled San Francisco, and the shocking revelation that monsters are real, “Monarch: Legacy of Monsters” tracks two siblings following in their father’s footsteps to uncover their family’s connection to the secretive organization known as Monarch. Clues lead them into the world of monsters and ultimately down the rabbit hole to Army Officer Lee Shaw (played by Kurt Russell and Wyatt Russell), taking place in the 1950s and half a century later where Monarch is threatened by what Shaw knows.

What if.. Season 2 coming Dec 22,2023l: The Marveled insight on the MCU feature article

                                                            

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                                                The Watcher says it the best "The MCU has become more twisted!"

                                            Can't wait until Dec 22nd for marvelous Season 2

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 After enlisting the Guardians of the Multiverse to stop Infinity Ultron, The Watcher returns for Season 2 of What...if? to meet new heroes and explore more strange new worlds in the MCU's ever-expanding Multiverse.                           

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Does Steve Rogers fight well in Avengers: Endgame? (The Marveled! insight on MCU)

                                               

Does Steve Rogers fight well in Avengers: Endgame?

Not just well. Steve Rogers puts up the fight of his life in that movie. First, he meets his younger self and has to beat a man with the same super-soldier serum but over a decade younger and wins.

Although, it took some trickery, followed by an incredible knockout punch.

Then comes his finest moment: the battle with Thanos.

At first, Cap excels in just working around his teammates and keeping Thanos on edge, but he gradually loses ground as Thanos successfully outmaneuvers all three and uses them against each other. All seems lost until the moment Marvel fans everywhere will never forget:

From there on, Captain America goes crazy. He’s using Mjolnir for the very first time, but somehow puts together a brilliant barrage of shield+hammer attacks that drive Thanos back and give his team time to recover. He even summons a massive lightning bolt to keep the Mad Titan down.

For a guy tiers below Doctor Strange and Thor in power, he forces Thanos to work hard for a win. And even after taking a pummeling from Thanos and losing most of his shield, he digs deep inside himself and finds the will to keep fighting.

He’s exhausted, bruised, and outmatched, but the fight’s still in him.

And thankfully, he had enough energy to take down plenty of Outriders and Chitauri.

So Captain America did not just fight “well” in Endgame. He fought brilliantly.

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Napoleon (2023): Movie Review

                                                                             

Movie Review

Napoleon Bonaparte (Joaquim Phoenix) is a military commander who had ruthless campaign to dominate and that he did for many years. He also had a private side that tormented him with his wife Josephine (Vanessa Kirby) who couldn't deliver a simple thing for him an heir to the throne.

What follow is his journey to exile twice and all sorts of challenges and monumental wins!

The epic saga will have you admiring him of his dominance and confused on her personal reflection for acceptance by many who didn't understand him.

7.5 out of 10 

Movie plot

A look at the military commander's origins and his swift, ruthless climb to emperor, viewed through the prism of his addictive and often volatile relationship with his wife and one true love, Josephine.

The Lookout (2023): Movie Review

                                                                              

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                   Chris Pratt (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) has memory issues due to an accident and ends up taking a job working for bank at night.

                He then meets Garry Spargo (Mathew Goode) who has a bad influence on Chris to an extent of robbing is own bank!

                                                       The climatic high octane ending will have everyone getting what they want and much more...

                                                                              7 out of 10 stars

                                                                            About film

A gifted high-school hockey player has his life turned upside down by car accident, which leaves him with a brain injury that causes memory loss. Now forced to take a job as a night cleaning man in a bank, he is befriended by a gang of bank robbers who have targeted him as an accomplice to the theft they are planning. When he gets wise to the scheme and attempts to stop the robbery, things go badly awry.

                                                                 

Saw X (2023): Movie Review

                                                                                       

Jim's Review

John Kramer (Tobin Bell) is seeking a experimental medical procedure only to discover its a large scam!

There is one person you don't mess with that is John Kramer as get his revenge and much more in a high octane and gruesome film.

The climatic end will put everyone in their place and John Kramer prove his point that he has a plan and it works!

9 out of 10 stars

Movie plot

Hoping for a miraculous cure, John Kramer travels to Mexico for a risky and experimental medical procedure, only to discover the entire operation is a scam to defraud the most vulnerable. Armed with a newfound purpose, the infamous serial killer uses deranged and ingenious traps to turn the tables on the con artists.

Thanksgiving (2023): Movie Review

                                                                                  

Jim's Review

Eli Roth is back with a new horror film that will have you guessing why is all this carnage happening!

Axe-wielding maniac is terrorizing residents of Plymouth Mass and there reason for it!

The climatic high octane end reveals all

8 out of 10 stars

Movie plot

An axe-wielding maniac terrorizes residents of Plymouth, Mass., after a Black Friday riot ends in tragedy. Picking off victims one by one, the seemingly random revenge killings soon become part of a larger, sinister plan.

The Holdovers (2023): Movie Review

                                                                               

Jim's Review

Paul Hunham (Paul Giamatti) is instructor at Barton. He gets the unfortunate duty to take care of a few Holdovers and that is when the drama and story unravels.

Director Alexander Payne has the ability to unravel characters just enough to get to know them and near the end when everything is finally get untangled you get a big sideways suprise!

7 out of 10 stars

About film

A curmudgeonly instructor at a New England prep school remains on campus during Christmas break to babysit a handful of students with nowhere to go. He soon forms an unlikely bond with a brainy but damaged troublemaker, and with the school's head cook, a woman who just lost a son in the Vietnam War.

The Quiz Lady (2023): Movie Review

                                                                           

Jim's Review

Jenny (Sandra Oh) goes on an adventure with her sister Anne (Awkwafina) to a Quiz show, thing don't go as planned for either of them!

The climatic end has everything solved for the most part

7 out of 10 stars

About film

Anne and her estranged train-wreck of a sister, Jenny, must work together to help cover their mother's gambling debts. When Anne's beloved dog is kidnapped, they set out on a wild cross-country trek to get the cash

Loki Season 2 (2023): Series Review

                                                                             

Jim's review

Loki (Tim Hiddleston) is back trying to figure why he times slipping and if that wasn't enough he trying to save the TVA from destroying itself!

He is dealing with the past, present and future and all types of diabolical consequences to his actions and others.

The climatic end to season to will have more questions and answers yet The God of Mishief end up where he  belongs... or maybe not?

9 out of 10 stars

Movie plot

The second season of the American television series Loki, based on Marvel Comics featuring the character of the same name, sees Loki working with Mobius M. Mobius, Hunter B-15, and other members of the Time Variance Authority (TVA) to navigate the multiverse in order to find Sylvie, Ravonna Renslayer, and Miss Minutes. It is set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), sharing continuity with the films of the franchise. The season is produced by Marvel Studios, with Eric Martin serving as head writer and Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead leading the directing team.

The Marvels (2023): Movie review

                                                                                      

Jim's Review

In this 33rd instalment Marvel brings three women superheroes together for trifecta  of marvelous drama and action.

This is not a marvelous movie as it has comedy, dram and slight action that makes it just bearable to watch.

6 out of 10 stars

about film

Carol Danvers, aka Captain Marvel, has reclaimed her identity from the tyrannical Kree and taken revenge on the Supreme Intelligence. However, unintended consequences see her shouldering the burden of a destabilized universe. When her duties send her to an anomalous wormhole linked to a Kree revolutionary, her powers become entangled with two other superheroes to form the Marvels

Billionaire Murders all 4 episodes available online: Feature video

 

                                                                             

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Billionaire Murders (2023): Movie Review

                                                                            

Jim's Review

The murders of Barry and Honey Sherman rocked the city of Toronto to its core and everyone wanted to know the same thing. Who did it and why?

Kevin Donovan write and author shares his insights in this amazing 4 parts series that peels back the layers of the Sherman family for the very beginning to the many of interest of Barry Sherman including Frank D'Angelo and Toronto businessman who befriended Barry many years ago and bonded a friendship that yielded some success and failures.

Honey Sherman was more the philanthropist and look like the nice lady yet she had here secrets also. Character only name "Anonymous" tells a different story about her

Then its about the 4 kids and what they know and where they were, there only son Jonathon had lots of speculation around him from his own family.

Kevin Donovan shares all that and court battles he faced to get at some important information

The riveting climax with have you ask more questions then getting answers.

The murders have not been solved and there is 35 million dollars reward to the person or persons that have the answers as to who did it and why?

9 out of 10 stars

Movie plot

This documentary follows the investigation into the deaths of billionaire and generic drug mogul Barry Sherman and his philanthropist wife Honey by Toronto Star reporter Kevin Donovan.

The Lego Story: Book Review

                                                                                       

Jim's Review

This is a totally a mesmerizing book to read from beginning to end!

Jens Anderson takes you on journey on the early days of the family and struggles they faced to the worldwide phenomenon of Lego and the growth all over the world

Today Lego is not just pieces you play with your kids and family members. It has evolved into movies and collector all over the world showcasing what they can build

Lego Master Tv show is in its fourth season and truly amazing experience to see Lego masters from all over the U.S.A build some spectacular pieces

10 out of 10 stars

About book

“Absolutely essential reading for every LEGO fan.” —Blocks

The definitive history of LEGO, based on unprecedented access to the company’s archives and rare interviews with the founding family who still owns the company

"This book tells the story of how my family built the LEGO brand." —Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen, former President/CEO of the LEGO Group and 3rd generation owner

It’s estimated that each year between eighty and ninety million children around the globe are given a box of LEGO, while up to ten million adults buy sets for themselves. Yet LEGO is much more than a dizzying number of plastic bricks that can be put together and combined in countless ways. LEGO is also a vision of the significance of what play can mean for humanity.

This book tells the extraordinary story of a global company and a Danish family who for ninety years have defended children’s right to play—and who believe grown-ups, too, should make the time to nurture their inner child. The LEGO Story is built on Jens Andersen’s unique access to LEGO’s own archives, as well as on Andersen’s extensive conversations with Kjeld Kirk Kristiansen, former president and CEO of the LEGO group and grandson of its founder, Ole Kirk Christiansen.

A riveting cultural history of changing generations’ views of childhood and the importance of play, The LEGO Story also a fascinating case study of how innovation and creativity helped leaders transform LEGO from a small carpentry business into the world’s largest producer of play materials and one of the most beloved brands in the world. Richly illustrated with never-before-seen photos from the family’s private archive, this is the ultimate book for fans of LEGO, revealing everything you ever wanted to know about the brand. https://www.amazon.ca/LEGO-Story-Little-Sparked-Imagination/dp/0063258021/ref=asc_df_0063258021/?tag=googleshopc0c-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=581372490680&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=16512276014046628061&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9000967&hvtargid=pla-1644148973196&psc=1

Big Data & A.I. Toronto Conference (2023): Feature article

                            

   Wednesday Oct 18,2023

   It was an exciting morning to attend the Big Data & A.I Toronto event to network and learn from various groups and attendees.

 

                                  Jimmy Lin of University of Waterloo Artificial Intelligence Learn more

           Highly recommend this book.

                                Weapons of Math Destruction by Cathy O'Neil  (she was not at event)

The Nun (2018): Movie Review

                                                                  

Jim's Review

When Father Burke (Demián Bichir Nájera) and Sister Irene (Taissa Farmiga) are brought in to investigate the death of a nun nothing prepares then as to they will see and be able to deal with.

7 out of 10 stars

Movie plot

When a young nun at a cloistered abbey in Romania takes her own life, a priest with a haunted past and a novitiate on the threshold of her final vows are sent by the Vatican to investigate. Together, they uncover the order's unholy secret. Risking not only their lives but their faith and their very souls, they confront a malevolent force in the form of a demonic nun.

Sly (2023): Movie Review

                                                                                  

Jim's Review

An epic journey into the career of Sylvester Stallone from Rocky to Rambo movies to much more..

9 out of 10 stars

Movie Plot:

The nearly fifty year prolific career of Sylvester Stallone, who has entertained millions, is seen in retrospective in an intimate look of the actor, writer, director-producer, paralleling with his inspirational life story.

Pain Hustlers (2023): Movie Review

                                                                   

Jim's Review

After Liza (Emily Blunt) loses her job she meets Pete Brenner (Chris Evans) who get her involved in a hustle of the century!

This story quickly unravels into a drama full some comedic moments with a great supporting cast.

This epic true story comes to end in epic fashion.

P.S and yes if you pay attention they do call Pete Brenner "Captain" in short scene.LOL

7 out of 10 stars

Movie plot

After losing her job, a woman who's struggling to raise her daughter takes a job out of desperation. She begins work at a failing pharmaceutical startup, but what she doesn't anticipate is the dangerous racketeering scheme she's suddenly entered.

Five Nights at Freddy's (2023): Movie Review

                                                                               

Jim's Review

When I first saw the poster in September I was interested and hooked to see this popular video game come to the silver screen.

The trailer look completely mesmerizing so when I got to watch it finally recently it was with great excited and worry as will I be impressed....

New security guard Mike (Josh Hutcherson) starts working at Freddy's it seems like something easy yet in a short time weird things start to happen and it takes a while for the story to gather steam.

Steve Raglan (Mathew Lillard) give him a chance but doesn't give any more details. When local cop Vanessa (Elizabeth Lail) shows up some of the mystery begins to become clear.

The climatic end all is revealed and Five Nights at Freddy's delivers and will be a cult classic for years to come

8 out of 10 stars

About film

A troubled security guard begins working at Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria. While spending his first night on the job, he realizes the late shift at Freddy's won't be so easy to make it through.

Black Panther car: Feature Article

 

                 This is simply a Marvellous car from the inside and out.

              The Black Panther car roams the city of Toronto for everyone to enjoy and take pictures of.