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Star Trek Picard, I loved the final episode
Season 3 of Star Trek Picard started tamely. I was disappointed to see Picard throwing everything he stood for by lying to Captain Shaw and sacrificing many for his son. However, Episode 9 titled Vox brought it all together nicely and made sense. The final episode was a treat for the fans as the writers did an excellent job of wrapping up the storylines. Instead of high adrenaline, nail-biting action sequences, we got a treatment that suited the age of the characters. It was a fitting end to the series, but I wish we got a glimpse of the earth below! Overall, Star Trek Picard season 3 was a great watch…
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Hello Tomorrow! (TV Series) is a mixed bag
If you have an Apple TV subscription check out their retro-futuristic (it means it happens in the 1960s but shows future tech) science fiction tv show called “Hello Tomorrow”. We see cars with no wheels, levitating, but powered by internal combustion engines. Large dials, CRT screens on TVs and no silicon chip revolution. Robots do all the work and so on. The story is about a travelling salesman and his crew selling homes on the moon. I am in the third episode, it has been a mixed bag. But I am enjoying the “futuristic” tech.
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Avatar: The Way of Water (2022), offers not a lot to blow your mind yet is ripe
⏳This was a wait of over 12 years. Whether it was The Terminator (1984), Abyss (1989), Titanic (1997) or Avatar (2009) Mr James Cameron always transports you to the cinematic world he creates on the big screen. I felt sad, every time the sequels for Avatar kept getting delayed, but glad Avatar: The Way of Water (2022) got released today and I managed to see it on a morning show (10 AM). Just like the millions of fans around the world, I loved the blue Na’vi people and wanted to learn more about Pandora. In one single feature film, Mr Cameron had brought to life a whole world, scores of…
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Lightyear (2022)
Everyone has a favourite toy from their childhood, it could’ve been a simple soft stone that you picked on beach sand, but for you, it reminds the whole world that you have created in your imagination. Pixar successfully exploits this (nostalgic) feeling in its Toy Story franchise. Among the characters in Toy Story, Buzz Lightyear, the astronaut was a favourite and its dialogue “To Infinity & Beyond” is edged in our memory. The latest in the franchise is Lightyear (2022) and it is not a sequel or prequel to Toy Story but covers one of the space missions that Buzz travels. It is the movie that Andy (the boy) had…
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Lost in Space (TV series)
Lost in Space (2018-2021) is a science fiction, remake of a series of the same name from the 1960s. The story was about the Robinson family, who are part of a group of colonists (the 24th group) who are on their way to the Alpha Centauri star system to settle down. After a sudden alien robot attacks their spacecraft (Resolute), their escape spaceship (Jupiter) crashes and lands on an unknown planet and things fall apart quickly. The Robinson couple has two daughters and a son who are all interested in science and space exploration. The youngest, Will Robinson, encounters an alien robot and the two become friends. The robot keeps…
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Bigbug (2022)
Bigbug (2022) is a French science fiction that is available on Netflix. The story happens in 2045 when the residents and their friends of a house are locked inside by their androids when the world outside gets taken over by bad robots. Having a few people with past connections, in a closed place is a fantastic plot for telling interesting stories, unfortunately, Director Jean-Pierre Jeunet wastes the opportunity. The film gets mangoidiots’ rotten rating. Alice is a divorcee living with her daughter in one of the neighbourhoods with hi-tech gadgets and android to do her bidding. Her lover and his son visit them, joined by her ex-husband and his fiancee,…
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Men in Black: International (2019)
Men in Black: International (2019) is the latest in the popular comedy science fiction series Men in Black. For a film that didn’t have the original stars Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith, it was engaging but fails to impress due to a weak plot. The lead pair Tessa Thompson and Chris Hemsworth have given a satisfying performance, I hope they continue the series with them in the future but with more imaginative stories. Available on Netflix, this gets a Raw. Agent H (Chris Hemsworth) of the UK branch of MIB is assigned to escort and entertain an alien royal Vungus the Ugly, in this task, H is joined by…
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The Adam Project (2022)
There are different types of time travel movies – some are like the classic Back to the Future (1985) or the Primer (2004) that appear to be based on good science, some others are made just for fun like the Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure (1989) or the Hot Tub Time Machine (2010) and some are in between like The Time Traveler’s Wife (2009). The recent film on Netflix, The Adam Project (2022) wants to be all of the above, as a result, it was none of them and was forgettable. It gets my default rating of Raw, as it left me with no particular impression. A fighter pilot Adam…
