Sunday, November 17, 2024

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.





The Union (2024): Movie Review

                                                                         


Jim's Review

Roxanne (Halle Berry) recruits her old flame Mike McKenna (Mark Wahlberg) for a dangerous mission.

7 out of 10 stars


Movie plot
Mike, a down-to-earth construction worker, is thrust into the world of super spies and secret agents when his high school sweetheart, Roxanne, recruits him on a high-stakes US intelligence mission.






Superdeep (2020): Movie Review

                                                                          


Jim's Review

Group of scientist go superdeep and find clues and then the real reason everyone disapperared!

6 out of 10 stars



Movie plot
In 1984 a Russian research team goes below the surface to find out what secret the world's deepest borehole is hiding. On their expedition, something unexpectedly gruesome awaits the researchers.





Jackpot (2024): Movie Review

                                                                            



Jim's Review

Hilarious comedy with ongoing action and jokes.

6 out of 10 stars



Movie plot:
In the near future, a 'Grand Lottery' has been newly established in California - the catch: kill the winner before sundown to legally claim their multi-billion dollar jackpot.





Oddity (2024): Movie Review

                                                                


Jim's Review

A cryptic thriller that you have to pay attention as everything that is said is simply powerful!

9 out of 10 stars



Movie plot

After the brutal murder of her twin sister, Darcy goes after those responsible by using haunted items as her tools for revenge.






Monday, November 4, 2024

Four books & Two podcasts regarding politics: Feature article

 With epic election happening on Tuesday November 5th in the United States of America between Kamala Harris and Donald J Trump on becoming the next president

Below are 4 books and two podcast from HQMedia.ca  Hisham Quddoumi and Jim Pagiamtzis did a few years ago during the last election and Jan 6 riots at Capitol Hill

        









           

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On the day of November 3rd, 2020, the whole world will tune in to their TVs, radio stations and of course the internet to see what might happen in the US Presidential elections. The most important election in the world and this year probably the most critical one in the modern history. After the very unexpected and probably most shocking win of President Trump in 2016 the whole world has changed course and started to look a lot different. Nothing has been as the old usual anymore and in a very tough and eventful year like 2020 it’s even more interesting than ever. An election within an unprecedented political unrest, in the middle of a one-in-a-century fatal pandemic and the rise of extremism (especially white supremacy) and political tribalism, this election is definitely the most interesting and crucial to the USA and probably the whole world. This special live episode of Quantumly Leaping Podcast will be held “LIVE” on Facebook at the election night and will discuss in an open dialogue and in interaction with liv audience the main topics on everyone’s mind regarding the US elections 2020. The episode was recorded on Nov 3rd, 2020 (the elections day) on 7:00 PM EST. Episode Topics _______________ 00:00 Opening Title 00:20 Where is the US Politics going if either candidate won? 10:40 How will it affect Canada and the world? 22:04 The relationship with US and Canada after election 38:30 How will the upcoming administration handle global issues? 52:12 Election security. Is it affected by foreign interference or internal fraud? 55:45 Closing Remarks Follow Us __________ You Tube: https://bit.ly/3cx6hNe Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3ahzbzn iTunes https://apple.co/2yefoUh Google Podcasts https://bit.ly/2Rzusmk Web: http://podcast.hqmedia.ca #USElections #Elections2020 #Podcast #QLPodcast






 
                                                 

On a day that will mark US history as one of the darkest days, a group of Pres. Trump supporters rioted the Capitol Hill building on the day that the congress was set to certify the presidential election that Joe Biden won on Nov. 3rd, 2020 in a violent attempt to overturn his defeat. After breaching multiple police perimeters, they occupied, vandalized, and ransacked parts of the building for more than four hours. The insurrection, that was infuriated by Pres. Trump himself weeks before and in a rally right before it happened, led to the evacuation and lockdown of the Capitol building and disrupted a joint session of Congress assembled to count the electoral votes and formalize Joe Biden's election victory. The result of that riot was a significant damage to the capitol building, looting of many properties including two laptops one of which belongs to the Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi that contains high classified government data, the delay of one of the most important Democratic processes in the USA and most importantly the loss of 5 lives including one of the Capitol’s Police officers and one rioter who was a decorated US veteran. In that dark day we witnessed the US democracy being under siege and the fire and fury of what words can do beyond being just tweets and social posts. Episode Topics _______________ 1- 0:00 Intro 2- 1:13 Opening remarks 3- 4:31 The beginning: How we received the news that day 4- 8:48 How did the event unfolded that day. 5- 18:50 How things led to this event in the weeks before and how Pres. Trump’s tweets and speeches infuriated it and the mental state of the rioters at the time of the attack (refer to our mental health episode). 6- 29:08 The US Election results and how it affected the Trump supporters to believe that their freedom is under attack (refer to our episode on US elections) 7- 39:14 How Social Platforms were used to organize this event and how they are fighting now against this type of hate and the spread of misinformation (refer to our episode on misinformation) 8- 48:52 Closing Remarks Referral Episodes Index Episode Title: Social Platforms Responsibility Against the Spread of Misinformation - Ep 10 Publishing Date: Jun 6, 2020 Episode URL: http://podcast.hqmedia.ca/index.php?p... YouTube URL:    • Social Platforms Responsibility Again...   Episode Title: The United States Elections 2020 (Special live Episode) Publishing Date: Nov 8, 2020 Episode URL: http://podcast.hqmedia.ca/index.php?p... YouTube URL:    • US Elections (S01 -  Special Live Epi...   Episode Title: Privacy in the 21st Century - Ep 6 Publishing Date: May 9, 2020 Episode URL: http://podcast.hqmedia.ca/index.php?p... YouTube URL:    • Privacy in the 21st Century (S01 - E06)   Episode Title: Mental Health and the Role of Society to Combat it - Ep 4 Publishing Date: Apr 25, 2020 Episode URL: http://podcast.hqmedia.ca/index.php?p... YouTube URL:    • Mental Health and the Role of Society...  

Friday, November 1, 2024

Deadpool & Wolverine (2024): Movie Review

                                                                                  


Jim's Review

Deadpool (Ryan Reynolds) finally get his team up with Wolverine (Hugh Jackman) well not exactly on friendly terms...

Lets go back to Deadpool (2016) and Deadpool 2 (2018) as Deadpool has been toying with Wolverine in all sorts of ways in some ways love and in most cases jealousy. 

Fast forward to Deadpool and Wolverine they are united to face a interesting adversary and along the way they will have few epic fights to resolve some issues until they meet some members to team up in the Void.

This leads to the climatic and amazing third act as they official fight together and beat up lots of Deadpools!

Where does this lead up in the end...not sure.. more team ups and fights.. in due time will find out...



8.5 out of 10 stars


About film
Deadpool's peaceful existence comes crashing down when the Time Variance Authority recruits him to help safeguard the multiverse. He soon unites with his would-be pal, Wolverine, to complete the mission and save his world from an existential threat.



Terrifier (2016): Movie Review

                                                                                         


Jim's Review

Crazy clown starts killing people on Halloween night

6 out of 10 stars

About film
A crazy clown stalks and tries to kill three women in a wretched old apartment building on Halloween night.