The Helicopter Heist (2024): Movie Review

                                                                             

Jim's Review

Based on true story two childhood friend embark on a heist that will make them rich and in the end they suffer to the failure for everyone to execute the plan

8 out of 10 stars

About film

Two childhood friends decide to try one last heist - to rob millions from Sweden's safest cash depot.

Alex Cross Season 1 (2024):Movie Review

                                                             

Jim's Review

Alex Cross (Aldis Hodge) faces challenges trying to catch a sadistic serial killer. 

In the end all is revealed and Alex Cross all his team are affected.

9 out of 10 stars

About film

Alex Cross, a decorated D.C. homicide detective and forensic psychologist faces a sadistic serial killer; he and his partner, John Sampson track this killer and a threat from Cross' past appears with ill intent.

Classified (2024): Movie Review

                                                                                 

Jim's Review

Evan Shaw (Aaron Eckhart) get his assignments and completes them very simple until one day he finds out he has been lied to.

7 out of 10 stars

About film

A CIA hit man uses the classified section in newspapers to receive his assignments. When he learns the shocking news that his boss has been dead for years, he tries to find out whose orders he's been executing.

Armor (2024): Movie review

                                                               

Jim's Review

Rook (Sylvester Stallone) and his son get mixed up in heist and then everything goes downhill.

6 out of 10 stars

About film

Tasked with delivering a suspicious package, a father-and-son duo of armoured truck drivers must outwit and outgun a team of thieves while trapped on a bridge.

 

Dominique (2024): Movie Review

                                                                             

Jim's Review

Dominique (Oksana Orlan) finds herself between a rock and hard place and the only way is shooting her way out of it!

7 out of 10 stars

About film

Dominique, a well-trained assassin, flees from her troubled past in an attempt to begin a new life in South America. However, she soon finds herself in a town plagued with violence and corruption.

Heretic (2024): Movie Review

                                                                      

Jim's Review

Mr. Reed (Hugh Grant) gets a knock on the door by two young missionaries what follows is an unraveling of truth and lies leading to an epic climax.

Ask yourself how did we get here in the first place just asking a Question!

8 out of 10 stars

About film

Two young missionaries become ensnared in a deadly game of cat and mouse when they knock on the door of the diabolical Mr. Reed. Trapped in his home, they must turn to their faith if they want to make it out alive.

Cellar Door (2024): Movie Review

                                                                 

Jim's Review

Simple instruction "Don't open the cellar door!"

What happens is not about the cellar more about humanity and our terrible inhibitions of dealing with life matters.

7 out of 10 stars

About film

A wealthy homeowner offers to give his beautiful estate to a couple who's looking for a fresh start. However, their dream home comes with one unusual caveat -- they can never open the cellar door.

Red One (2024): Movie Review

                                                                                      

Jim's Review

ELP (Dwayne Johnson) and tracker Jack O'Malley (Chris Evans) are on a quest to find Red One and save Christmas!

6 out of 10 stars

About film

When a villain kidnaps Santa Claus from the North Pole, an E.L.F. (Extremely Large and Formidable) operative joins forces with the world's most accomplished tracker to find him and save Christmas.

Elevation (2024): Movie Review

                                                                          

Jim's Review

Will (Anthony Mackie) is on mission to save his son. He has to go below 8000 feet and face some crazy creatures.

6 out of 10 stars

About film

Post-apocalyptic survivors find refuge in the Rocky Mountains to hide from giant, insect-like creatures that can't live above 8,000 feet. However, when one of them needs life-saving supplies, they risk it all to venture into the danger zone.

Timecut (2024): Movie Review

                                                                                  

Jim's Review

This is sneaky good film with a cool storyline.

8 out of 10 stars

About film

A teen in 2024 accidentally time-travels to 2003, days before a masked killer murders his sister.

Juror #2 (2024): Movie Review

                                                                                  

Jim's Review

Justin Kemp (Nicholas Holt) has a secret that could impact a trial his a juror in.

Directed by Clint Eastwood reports stated his last film.

7 out of 10 stars

About film

A juror for a high-profile murder trial finds himself struggling with a serious moral dilemma that could influence the verdict and potentially convict, or free, the accused killer.

The Critic (2024): Movie Review

                                                                        

Jim's Review

Jimmy Erskine (Ian McKellen) plays a critic in which his word can make or break an actors career!

7 out of 10 stars

About film

A powerful London theatre critic lures a struggling actress into a blackmail scheme that has deadly consequences.

Podcamp 2024: Event Review

 Podcamp 2024 was held at a new location this year George Brown College St. James Campus at Sherbourne and Richmond Street E.

 It was amazing day of learning, sharing and socializing,

Will be sharing the audio from the day very soon.

                                      

                                                        

                               

                                                           

The Penguin Season 1 (2024): Movie Review

                                                              

Jim's Review

Penguin (Colin Farrell) wants to make a name for himself yet he faces challenges come from all sides.

By the time you finishing watching you will be cheering, crying and asking when is Season 2 happening!

9 out of 10 stars

Movie Plot

Following the events of The Batman (2022), Oz Cobb, a.k.a. the Penguin, makes a play to seize the reins of the crime world in Gotham.

5000 Blog post: Feature Article

  Achievement, Amazing and Adventurous

  These are 3 words to describe my journey when I started my first blog post in 2008 and the epic adventures it has been to share insights with the world with articles, spot lights on success, YouTube videos, guest post and collaborative team work from so many people and organizations.

 Lets begin with story.....

  will be sharing stories throughout 2025 on memorable posts that I have shared.

                                                             

Gladiator II (2024): Movie Review

                                                                                         

Jim's Review

Lucius (Paul Mescal) is on a journey of redemption after the death of Maximus at the hands of his uncle.

He faces many battles along the way and he finds out secrets from his past the change who he is and what he represents.

Director Ridley Scott brings back epic fight scenes in the Colosseum (even involving sharks!) to high drama throughout the film.

In the final act all is revealed and the true Gladiator emerges for an epic battle with many adversaries.

8.5 out of 10 stars

About film

Years after witnessing the death of Maximus at the hands of his uncle, Lucius must enter the Colosseum after the powerful emperors of Rome conquer his home. With rage in his heart and the future of the empire at stake, he looks to the past to find the strength and honor needed to return the glory of Rome to its people.

The Reign of Marvel Studios MCU: Book Review

                 Magical, Mystic and Marvelous                                                                 

Jim's Review

It was marvelous adventure to read this book finally ( can you tell I am huge fan!)

It was a thick book yet I didn't mind to read all that happened in MCU universe way back to 2008 when Iron Man came to fast forward 2024 and Kraven The Hunter is coming out this week  December 2024.

I was an avid reader of comics way back in the 80's and sadly I sold most of them in the early 2000's. In recent year I have started a small collection and as of last week and came across a batch of 30 comics while doing some spring cleaning and you should have seen my face when I found Wolverine #1 ( I was so happy for my old self that I kept it!)

Now back to the book...

There was so much to unpack the good, the bad and the ugly with Marvel, Walt Disney and Sony. Comics have come alive and on the silver screen and there are so many people involved!

In the end we get to escape and enjoy a movie with character we envy and perhaps don't like. I have spent many hours watch Easter Egg videos on multiple channels, shout out to Canadian Lad and Rock Stars to name a few.

There are marvel films I love to watch all the time Spiderman 2 (Tobey McGuire) Ant-man, Avengers, Avengers Infinity War, Avenger Endgame.  and other I will not watch  Madame Web, She-Hulk Attorney at Law.

There are over 1700 character who deserve the limelight and they will get it eventually.

I had the great honor to meet the Marvelous Stan Lee twice and he was hilarious and funny both times.

Finally back to the MCU book is 10 out of 10 stars

About book

Marvel Entertainment was a moribund toymaker not even twenty years ago. Today, Marvel Studios is the dominant player both in Hollywood and in global pop culture. How did an upstart studio conquer the world? In MCU, beloved culture writers Joanna Robinson, Dave Gonzales, and Gavin Edwards draw on more than a hundred interviews with actors, producers, directors, and writers to present the definitive chronicle of Marvel Studios and its sole, ongoing production, the Marvel Cinematic Universe. For all its outward success, the studio was forged by near-constant conflict, from the contentious hiring of Robert Downey Jr. for its 2008 debut, Iron Man, all the way up to the disappointment of Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania and shocking departures of multiple Marvel executives in 2023. Throughout, the authors demonstrate that the original genius of Marvel was its resurrection and modification of Hollywood’s old studio system. But will it survive its own spectacular achievements? Dishy and authoritative, MCU is the first book to tell the Marvel Studios story in full—and an essential, effervescent account of American mass culture. Learn more and buy book

The Forever Purge (2021): Movie Review

                                                                             

Jim's Review

A family living a quiet life on a ranch get involved in the Forever Purge and the consequences behind it reveal themselves.

6 out of 10 stars

Movie plot

Adela and her husband, Juan, live in Texas, where he works as a ranch hand for the wealthy Tucker family. Juan impresses the Tucker patriarch, Caleb, but that fuels the jealous anger of his son, Dylan. On the morning after the Purge, a masked gang of killers attacks the Tuckers, forcing both families to band together and fight back as the country spirals into chaos.

The First Purge (2018): Movie Review

                                                                         

Jim's Review

First Purge begins in a community that already has issues.

6 out of 10 stars

Movie plot

To push the crime rate below one percent for the rest of the year, the New Founding Fathers of America test a sociological theory that vents aggression for one night in one isolated community. But when the violence of oppressors meets the rage of the others, the contagion will explode from the trial-city borders and spread across the nation.

                   

Predator A Memoir A Movie An Obsession : Book Review

                                                                            

Jim's Review

Ander Monson has watch Predator movie 146 and he shares some interesting insights on the movie

10 out of 10 stars

About book

In his first memoir, Ander Monson guides readers through a scene-by-scene exploration of the 1987 film Predator, which he has watched 146 times. Some fighters might not have time to bleed, but Monson has the patience to consider their adventure, one frame at a time. He turns his obsession into a lens through which he poignantly examines his own life, formed by mainstream, white, male American culture. Between scenes, Monson delves deeply into his adolescence in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula and Riyadh, his role as a father and the loss of his own mother, and his friendships with men bound by the troubled camaraderie depicted in action and sci-fi blockbusters. Along with excursions into the conflicted pleasures of cosplay and first-person shooters, he imagines himself beside the poet and memoirist Paul Monette, who wrote the novelization of the movie while his partner was dying of AIDS.

A sincere and playful book that lovingly dissects the film, Predator also offers questions and critiques of masculinity, fandom, and their interrelation with acts of mass violence. In a stirring reversal, one chapter exposes Monson through the Predator’s heat-seeking vision, asking him, “What do you know about the workings of the hidden world?” As Monson brings us into the brilliant depths of the film and its universe, the hunt begins.

Beverly Hills Cop Axel Foley (2024); Movie Reviews

                                                                           

Jim's Review

Axel Foley (Eddie Murphy) is back to help his daughter Jane (Taylor Paige) and of course John Taggart and Billy Rosewood get involved.

7 out of 10 stars

Movie Plot

Axel Foley returns to Beverly Hills after his daughter's life is threatened, and works with old pals John Taggart and Billy Rosewood to uncover a conspiracy.

The Quiet Place Day One (2024): Movie Review

                                                                            

Jim's Review

Samira (Lupita Amondi Nyong'o) and friend Eric (Joseph Quinn) are on a journey of survival and redemption.

8 out of 10 stars

Movie plot:

When New York City comes under attack from an alien invasion, a woman and other survivors try to find a way to safety. They soon learn that they must remain absolutely silent as the mysterious creatures are drawn to the slightest sound.

The Boys season 4 (2024) : Movie Review

                                                                            

Jim's Review

The Supes are back dealing with politics and team issues and of course lots of bloody scenes!

7 out of 10 stars

Movie plot

Superheroes are often as popular as celebrities, as influential as politicians, and sometimes even as revered as gods. But that's when they're using their powers for good. What happens when the heroes go rogue and start abusing their powers? When it's the powerless against the super powerful, the Boys head out on a heroic quest to expose the truth about the Seven and Vought, the multibillion-dollar conglomerate that manages the superheroes and covers up their dirty secrets. Based on the comic book series of the same name.

Alien Romulus (2024): Movie Review

                                                                             

Jim's Review

Aliens are back but this time the crew takes to learn and study them and beat them with knowledge and of course guns!

9.5 out of 10 stars

Movie plot:

Space colonizers come face to face with the most terrifying life-form in the universe while scavenging the deep ends of a derelict space station.

Borderlands (2024): Movie Review

                                                            

Jim's Review

A dysfunctional team sets out to deal with their issues in life.

6 out of 10 stars

Movie plot:

Returning to her home planet Pandora, an infamous bounty hunter forms an unexpected alliance with a ragtag team of misfits. Together, they battle alien monsters and dangerous bandits to uncover one of Pandora's most explosive secrets.

                                                                        

The Umbrella Academy Season 4 (2024): Movie Review

                                                                              

Jim's Review

The dysfunctional family comes together for the last time to iron out some the mysteries surrounding their creation.

7 out of 10 stars

Movie plot

On one day in 1989, 43 infants are inexplicably born to random, unconnected women who showed no signs of pregnancy the day before. Seven are adopted by billionaire industrialist Sir Reginald Hargreeves, who creates the Umbrella Academy and prepares his "children" to save the world. In their teenage years, though, the family fractures and the team disbands. Fast forward to the present time, when the six surviving members of the clan reunite upon the news of Hargreeves' passing. They work together to solve a mystery surrounding their father's death, but divergent personalities and abilities again pull the estranged family apart, and a global apocalypse is another imminent threat. The series is based on a collection of comics and graphic novels created and written by My Chemical Romance lead singer Gerard Way.

The Instigators (2024): Movie Review

                                                                         

Jim's Review

Rorry (Matt Damon) and Cobby (Casey Affleck) team up for a heist of course lots of thing go wrong along the way.

7 out of 10 stars

Movie plot:

Rory and Cobby are unlikely partners thrown together for a heist. However, when it goes awry, they team up to outrun police, backward bureaucrats, and a vengeful crime boss.

It Ends With Us (2024); Movie Review

                                                                             

Movie Review

Lily Bloom (Blake Lively) meets charming neurosurgeon Ryan Kincaid (Justin Baldoni) her life starts of well then gets difficult quickly, she meet an old flames Atlas Corrigan (Brandon Sklenar) who gives her time and wisdom for her.

7 out of 10 stars

Movie Plot

When a woman's first love suddenly reenters her life, her relationship with a charming, but abusive neurosurgeon is upended and she realizes she must learn to rely on her own strength to make an impossible choice for her future.