A recently divorced advocate, spends her time on the train commuting daily to a route. She recently had a miscariage which led her to be dependent on alcohol. But that’s what she thinks, the real reason is something totally different.
On the route her eye catches on a woman who she relates herself with. One day she sees a man with that woman who is not her husband and suddenly everything changes.
What’s to like about THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN?
Women lead film
A bit different from the original
Covers all the aspects like blackmail,betrayal, murder, vengeance and police investigation
Plot twist
Some questionable loopholes
It seems that after half time the movie seems to lose its trajectory. Some questionable things are that if Mira (Parineeti) did know Jimmy Bagga then how she seems to have missed who her daughter is.
What do we have to say about it?
We would like to give a ⅗ stars. Though it seems a full package but it still misses some things.
Cast – Alice Braga, Hemky Madera, Alfonso Herrera, Veronica Falcon, Justina Machado, Peter Gadiot, Gerardo Taracena, Joaquim de Almeida
Directed by – M.A. Fortin, Joshua John Miller
Produced by – Robert J. Wilson Lorenzo, O’Brien MAtthew J., Lieberman Judd Rea
Seasons released so far – 4
IMDb Ratings – 7.9/10
Rotten Tomatoes – 68%
Story line –
This is a powerful story of Teresa Mendoza who is a woman in her early 20s who comes to the US as her drug dealing boyfriend is murdered in Mexico and she wants to avenge his death. Little did she know that her life was about to be changed forever. She then seeks refuge in Dallas after which she is set to run a drug cartel all on her own. She faces near death experience many many times but she is always saved.
Our Views –
This series focuses more on women taking incharge and changing the rules of the game and these things are done very flawlessly.
This is definitely a worth watching show for numerous reasons like it’s full of suspense, drama, good scenes, good acting and ofcourse Alice Braga herself!!
When you initially start watching, the first episode will give you the “Narcos” vibes and it might be what you might say is a lady narcos.
As the starting shows us how Teresa runs away from a drug cartel and then held as a refugee and there we can see all the action that we possibly can and then the rate of action declines as the plot matures. At the very first scene the end is shown where Teresa is already running this business and she on the top.
Her aura in the whole series is that of a lone wolf, a lioness and a fighter who will stop at nothing to get what she wants. She is loyal, she wants revenge in the start but later she is calm and she learns about herself that this is what she is made for.
Though the story revolves around Teresa Mendoza but the important part is played by Camila Vargas and Epifanio. The reason for putting this one in the Hispanic section is of course of its Mexican culture influence and its more than self explanatory of being in this section.
Cast – Úrsula Corberó, Álvaro Morte,Itziar Ituño,Pedro Alonso,Paco Tous, Alba Flores, Miguel Herrán, Jaime Lorente, Esther Acebo, Enrique Arce, María Pedraza, Darko Perić, Kiti Mánver, Hovik Keuchkerian, Rodrigo de la Serna.
Directed by – Alex Rodrigo
Produced by – Alex Pina
Seasons released so far – 4
IMDb Ratings – 8.4/10
Rotten Tomatoes – 93%
Story Line –
The story line is based on a criminal mastermind who calls himself the Professor who brings 8 thieves to lock themselves and take hostages of the Royal Mint and the Bank of Spain as he guides the thieves and tells them the further elaborated plan. The interesting thing is Professor gave names of all the thieves the name of the cities.
Our Views –
(Spoiler Alert!!)
The part focuses on starting the elaborated heist. First starts with getting all the thieves together at a place and giving them a name like Tokyo, Berlin, Nairobi, Moscow, Rio, Denver, Helsinki and Oslo.
They start the heist of the Royal Mint. The police assign the negotiator and Professor involved romantically with her.
In this part or in fact in the whole series we can see that almost for every hiccup in the plan the Professor has a counter plan lined up and everything goes good.
The role of the Professor has given justice to his role very flawlessly. I have enjoyed many Spanish shows but this turns out to be one of the best one.
As this is the first part and the story just starts to unfold and the anticipation is very high and it’s so fun to see all the problems the heist gives to the thieves and how the professor guides.
In the part 2 of money heist it can be seen that it has been rushed as compared to the first season. There are times when we hate Tokyo due to her deeds in the heist and how that creates trouble for the Professor.
Here Berlin dies and at that point starts to get very attached with him. But he then sacrificed himself for the team.
At the end of part 2, after the heist is completed we get back and start thinking that there is no way this story can continue but then they throw a romantic angle which is then led to a new vendetta seeking heist.
All the actors have their adequate importance and all did their part very flawlessly. Even though you enjoyed the part 1 and 2 very much there still might be chances that you may not enjoy the part 3 and 4.
We can see that now it’s not only the question of heist but this time it’s personal and they even face betrayal from their own inner circle.
In the upcoming part 5 the show takes a U turn and some angle might be explored in the heist.
JL 50 follows a CBI officer, Shantanu Das (Abhay), who is tasked with investigating a plane crash. It turns into a top secret mission as they realize that the plane that crashed somewhere in northern Bengal took off from a Kolkata (then Calcutta) airport 35 years ago.
Our Views –
India doing a Sci-Fi movie with a good taste is really rare. But here they really went out of the way and created a masterpiece. JL50 talks about a very unique subject which is rarely talked about in any other Indian movie and that is Time Travel. Though the web series is based on a real story, they have very beautifully linked it with Time Travel.
Pankaj Kapoor says “Time never moves, Time is always present” in the beginning of the series and it seems on this basis they have explained the whole series. Pankaj Kapoor aka Professor Das appears to be very fishy right from the start. An airplane goes missing with some important delegates in it and in order to investigate it, a plane which was lost 35 years ago is recovered (with 2 survivors).
Abhay Deol aka Shantanu keeps the story rolling forward as being the lead CBI investigator. He is not a believer of time travel until all the other possibilities are not ruled out. He was left at an orphanage and he never got to get closure about his parents but due to time travel he got to know that the survivor of the time travel actually turns out to be his mother.
It explains a time travel mystery with the sources of the explanation which dates back to the times of Emperor Ashoka and later solved by a scientist in 1984. This web series is on Sony LIV with 4 episodes each and not more than 35 min each is easy to watch in a go. And it’s definitely highly recommended.
Produced by – Boney Kapoor, Mukesh Talreja, Sunil Manchanda, Gautam Jain, Naresh Agarwal
Story line –
Arya’s life changes when she is brutally gang-raped by a group of spoiled rich students from her school and two of their house helps. Her stepmother seeks justice and takes the help of a detective to teach the perpetrators a lesson. Devki, a biology teacher, seeks help from DK, a private detective, and vows to get revenge after her stepdaughter’s rapists are acquitted by the court.
Our Views-
The movie plays Sridevi as the central character. And it is a revenge based plot seeks by the rape victim’s mother (Sridevi) on the culprits. The story is like “PINK” but this movie does not show the faults in the justice system but how a common mother seeks revenge. Regardless the differences her 18 year old daughter has with her, still that does not stop her from taking revenge for her.
The best moments of the film are all the different ways she meets DK (Nawazuddin Siddiqui), be it in the art gallery of ‘Modern Art’ or be it at the metro station or any other place. The movie gives many messages and it focuses on how the whole family all goes through the trauma which the victim also goes through.
Thankfully there is not much melodrama unlike other typical bollywood films. And I especially liked the tactics Sridevi used to take revenge. Sridevi and Nawazuddin Siddhiqui has been flawless as ever but Akshay’s role could have given more depth being the main investigating officer of the case.
This movie was the last movie of Sridevi and she did an outstanding job. May her soul rest in peace.
Cast – Blake Lively, Anna Kendrick, Henry Golding, Linda Cardellini, Andrew Rannells, Rupert Friend, Ian Ho, Eric Johnson
Director – Paul Feig
Producer – Paul Feig, Jessie Henderson
Story Line –
In A SIMPLE FAVOR, Stephanie (Anna Kendrick) is a suburban single mom with lots of energy for crafts, school projects, and her vlog. She unexpectedly makes friends with fellow mom Emily (Blake Lively), an aloof fashion-plate with a handsome husband (Henry Golding), a great house, and a seemingly perfect life. When Emily goes missing, Stephanie sets out to solve the mystery — quickly discovering she didn’t know her friend as well as she thought.
Our Views –
It is a great movie with a good story line for adults. There is a lavish lifestyle of Blake and a typical mum life of Anna. It has a lot of everything like a lot of humour, lot or thriller and a spike of crime. We can see a very different Blake compared to her role of Serena Van Der Woodsen of the Gossip Girl and here we can see her in a bold role with small slutrly smiles.
The movie focuses more on Kendrick’s thinking but I was personally inclined towards Blake. The movie gives various moods and scene shifts in a very smart way like giving brief laughs to brighten dark moments. Kendrick becomes a girl detective and solves the mystery which Emily Nelson(Blake Lively) becomes after she ignores some red flags.
She catches Emily red handed and sends her to jail. The movie is smart, funny, dark, mystery and its almost like all in one.
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