This is a series that will probably push me into either buying the audio book or the novel after the series ends, I like how many details are in the story and intrigue me about Japanese culture, I have seen other series based on Japan but probably nothing like Shogun (2024) so far, it sad this is just a ten episode mini series.

Episode six is a very slow one, after the Earthquake Toronaga forces are trying to recover what ever they can but currently out number if they decide to strike, Lady Ochiba has return to Osaka, not much has been said about her on the series but she is the Heir mother, she was the only consort able to provide the Taiko an heir.

• IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2788316/
• Platform: FOXNOW

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Spaceman (2024) is a movie about a Czech Republic Cosmonaut Jakub Prochazka, who is on a mission to take samples of a purple cloud close to Jupiter while his wife Lenka waits for him on Earth with their next to born son. During this trip that would be a more than one year mission alone in space, Jakub had an encounter with a what looks to be an Alien that look like a Spider, as Jakub he is a traveler but got deeply attracted by Jakub loneliness.

• IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11097384/
• Platform: Netflix
• Release: February 23, 2024

I really like the vintage vibe from the movie although is very common for things to look very simple and square on space stations in case something needs to be fix there is as less complex mechanisms or parts. At the time the movie starts Jakub is over six months traveling alone, the mission was design to be a solo mission, all he had to do was to collect dust sample from the purple clouds next to Jupiter, to stay sane while been alone all this time sleeping is key factor but his toilet that long tube he is next too has been going on and making loud noise at night so its been close impossible for him to sleep.

For me this was the first fucked up moment and probably what attracted the Alien, during a conference call with Earth a girl was giving the opportunity to ask Jakub if he feels sad to be so far away? he must be the loneliest man in the world!. Once you continue watching the movie and you think about this moment again if Jakub was honest at that moment he would probably start crying at worst because been away from his wife for so long was killing him but he put up a fake smile and answer was polite as he could.

Jakub wife Lenka at Earth has recorded a terrible video, she is leaving him while he is millions of miles away on a solo mission, she is pregnant for a second time and its a coincidence that this is the second time he is not there for her, the space program director refuse to give him this message and the hunt to locate Lenka starts so she can talk to Jakub and keep him sane because right now it doesn't look too good for him.

Besides Jakub and Lenka the other character that had an important role was Peter by Kanul Nayyar, I really like this guy from Big Bang Theory TV Series, this time on the opposite side of the spectrum been a serious tech at control center who was in charge of keeping Jakub in check, very awkward character as a fact the entire movie has this Soviet Union style from the 80s so it was not just Peter, you wont see people smiling on this movie that much except for Jakub happy memories with Lenka.

As I mention before this Alien Spider like has been intrigue my Jakub loneliness feeling and he just show up out of no where, there was no portal or ship nothing just whats up here I'm at Jakub bathroom from all of the other room on the ship the one that torments Jakub the most, to make things simple Jakub gave the alien the name of Hanus since he was nameless. The moment they start interacting Hanus starts to rewind Jakub's memory, he gets into his head and start looking for his memories with Lenka trying to understand why he was so lonely, if it was him who decided it or it was a punishment or he was that stupid that he could not see the damage he was doing to himself and others around him like his wife, deeply Jakub was lonely and sad before he got into the mission thats the style of life he choose and this is what Hanus is trying to understand.

Hanus kept digging on Jakub's memory trying too look for a logical answer because everything around Jakub felt like a punishment, been on that ship felt like a punishment for Hanus, he could sense more than was just on the surface of Jakub something not even Jakub himself could understand or see, if he had he would not left his wife back on Earth pregnant after she lost their first baby under the same kind of circumstances, he was not there for her and the excuse was always work, Hanus got into a few memories of Lenka trying to live a life full of happiness next to Jakub pushing him to do things he would enjoy, trying to know more about him but from Jakub's side of the table the sentiment at the moment was not mutual, he did love her but was not aware through the years how his relationship with his wife was deteriorating because of how either obsess or blind he was for been always fixed into his work.

I get this is not a movie for most people, they might jump in thinking there will be planet exploration, fight with the alien or something totally different, I did too but the moment Hanus says "Your loneliness intrigue me" I was hooked because this alien knows nothing about human behavior and is trying to understand humans farther than just learning our ways and language, he wants to understand our existence specially how a human like Jakub can live been sad and lonely all the time like he currently was, when Hanus starts to rewind all Jakub's memory with Lenka then he realize the problem was him all the time, not that its part of human behavior, it was him at his core that was selfish and shortsighted, he was only interested in things that keep him going but never into the things that kept Lenka going, she was pregnant for the second time but he never saw farther than she just been pregnant but how the mission would affect her specially after she lost their first baby, the message of this movie is very simple although what I like about it is the scenario and how this alien figure is so philosophical basically saying this is not normal, this is not ok, what is wrong with this guy? then he gets it and even gets mad at Jakub leaving him alone for some time. After that then comes the last part that had some space exploration and even an Interstellar type scene with Jakub going into a cloud that had effects like a black hole. It is very hard to recommend this movie unless you like movies that analyze human behavior or fucks with the character mind.

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The story follows Gracian “Gray” Parish a retired wheel man that is living an amazing life with his family, he run his own company and lives in a nice suburban home, he is living the average American life but he is also carrying a pain due to his son dead who was killed a year ago during a shooting but the case is still unsolved. One night an old friend and partner in crime named Colin visited Gray and asked, lets better says that Colin begs Gray for help, he is in a dept with the Tongai family, a group of Zimbabwean gangsters and needs Gray to complete a mission due to he is the most capable driving man that he knows, Gary begrudgingly agrees to help Colin but let him know that this will be the last time. The day of the mission arrived but the initial plan goes wrong forcing Gray reroutes things, changing his clothes and stealing a new vehicle, apparently at the end everything ends well, calling the attention of the Tongais siblings and they trying to retain his services but he always refusing to it. Since that moment Gray’s met the Tongais siblings and realized that he just get involved in something huge and bad that is human trafficking and also acknowledged that he is going to need to drive faster than before all to keep his family safe.

The series Parish is going to give a lot of action, pursuit, is going to give a view of real friendship or friendship that just can ruin your life also is going to demonstrate one more time what a person is capable of doing for the well-being of his family. Parish premiered is on March 31st on AMC.

• IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt18552362/
• Platform: AMC+
• Release: March 31, 2024

Truly a Stellar Cast for Parish

Giancarlo Esposito take the lead role as Gracian “Gray” Parish, Esposito is known for his portraying as Gus in the acclaimed TV series Breaking Bad, as well in the prequel series Better Call Saul, for that role he won a Critic’s Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series in 2012 and earned three nomination for a Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series, Esposito has established his career as one of the most versatile and talented actors in the industry. Zackary Momoh portrays The Horse, Momoh is a British actor, began his career in theater making his debut in A United Kingdom in 2016, he is known for his role in the TV Series Seven Seconds 2018 and in the series The Nerves 2021. Arica Himmel as Makayla Parish, Himmel is an American actress best known for her role as Rainbow “Bow” Johnson in the comedy series Mixed Ish, Himmel has garnered attention for her natural charm. Ivan Mbakop portrays Zenzo Tongai, is an American actor, director and application designer. Mbakop first acting was in a commercial for Cox Communications and Coca Cola, he formed part of the movie Baby Mama’s Club 2010 and later in 2017 he debuted as a director with the short Victus. Dax Rey portrays Luke, Rey is a young actor that is known for his role in the series The Good Place 2016, Swan Song 2021 and They Whisper 2023. Paula Malcomson is portraying Ros, Gray’s wife, Malcomson is a Northern Irish actress. She is known for playing Trixie in Deadwood 2004, Maureen Ashby in Sons of Anarchy 2010 and Abby Donovan in Ray Donovan 2013. Skeet Ulrich take the role as Colin. Ulrich is best known for his role of Billy Loomis in the popular franchise Scream, he is also Chris Hooker in the Craft 1996 and Vincent Lopiano in As Good as It Gets 1997.

Into the World of Parish

The story of Parish would the the audience to the life of Gracian “Gray” Parish, a man that has a good life as a retired wheel man that in the present is living in a nice suburban home with his wife and daughter and running a car company but not everything was happiness in Parish life, he was suffering for the dead of his son Maddox who was killed a year ago in a shooting, despite that situation his life seems to be like a average man with a average family. One night Colin, Parish old partner visited him requesting for help, he is in debt to the Tongai Family a group of Zimbabwean gangsters and needs Parish to use his driving skills for a one last time mission, Parish wasn’t happy for that request of his friend but accepted the offer. The series is going to show how Colin and Parish are going to deal with the situation and try to complete the mission, is going to give action scene, a man that believed has no other choice to continue in that job entering with deeply in a wrong path try to find out a way out.

Directorial Vision: Sunu Gonera

Director Sunu Gonera has a story of dreams and determination. Born and living in Zimbawe during the Civil War, Gonera decided to began a journey and follow his dream of becoming a Hollywood director. He and his family sold everything they had in Zimbawe and move to Hollywood but he didn’t work in the filming industry right away, he first studied and has a degree in Organizational Psychology from the University of Cape Town and started pursuing a career in baking before following his dream as a director. Not take too long when he finally started his passing directing different prestigious commercials for brands like Coca-Cola and Nike and filmed a short named Riding with Sugar in 2020, the short was screen in Cannes in 2006, after that he made his directorial debut with the film Pride, that was based in the true story of the first all black high school rowing team, it was starring by Terrence Howard and which earned him an NAACP Image Award Nomination. Since that moment Gonera start recognition in the filming industry, leading him to also direct different episodes in TV Series such as Madam Secretary 2014, 13 Reasons Why 2017 and Snowfall 2017. Now Sunu Gonera is bringing his new project as a co-creator along with Danny Brocklehurst “Parish”. The journey of perseverance and courage for a better life and in search of his dream is the reality that director Sunu Gonera give as an inspiration that all dreams can come true as long as you fight for them.

Anticipation and Controversy

The series was entirely filmed in the United States, during the filming co-creator and director Sunu Gonera put the production in some challenges due to his departure of the project due to internal investigations, despite that situation the cast and the crew prevailed to continue on the filming and deliver a good series to watch. The series is an adaptation of the TV series The Driver, a British crime drama set in Manchester and aired on BBC One in 2014 and in this occasion Parish wants to show a story of man that helps a friend but that at the end is going to do everything to keep his family safe, trying at the same time to return to his peaceful life. Parish is the series that wants to become the sensation of 2024 giving Parish story and Esposito amazing performance.

Parish is a series that is full of action with a topic that is a reality in the world that is human traffic and simultaneously the reality of a man trying to success and survive and fight against that world. A series that had controversies for the departure of the co-creator and director but that doesn’t stop the cast and crew to continue working and deliver a great series. Following the life of Gray Parish a man that has a good life but for give a hand to a friend now is in a world of gangster that will force him drive as fast as he can to get his life back. Parish brings back to the small screen actor Giancarlo Esposito whose previous performance as Gus in Breaking Bad has established him like one of the best and talented actor in the filming industry. The audience will enjoy the series and judge if one more time Esposito nailed it.

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Review | Reseña

☢️ Rated - Clasificación: PG-18 
🎭 Genre - Género: Drama | Family | Homosexuality | Disease 
😜 Original language - Idioma original: English
🎥 Director: Darren Aronofsky
📅 Release date - Fecha de estreno: 2022
🎬 Running time - Duración: 117 min.
✍️ My score -  Mi puntaje: 7 to 10

I don't like what has become of this spin off for the last two episodes and I have my suspects of whats going to happen on the last episode, I just hope they are not that stupid to have Rick and Michonne single handle destroy the CRM on a single episode, I based this assumption on the advance scenes at the end of episode five, it shows Rick and Michonne back at Philadelphia, CRM HQ; looks like they taking the place down.

It looks like there is a second season although feels like they rushing things just too much or may be just me getting the wrong idea, I hope I'm wrong about it; six episode is nothing for a season, some might say its just two episodes shorter than the last two spin off first season but in two episodes the entire perspective of the story can change specially been episodes over 45 minutes that is half an average movie duration. Episode five feels like one of those episodes to kill time and explain part of the back story and that they did with all the kissing and loving for the first part of the episode then something almost similar with Anne aka Jadis, I simply didn't like this episode neither, its a real buzz killer since the season started so good and then it is just a downtrend in terms of lack of action, cruelty, treason and cruelty, after all that is what sells on TWD not loving and kissing.

• IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9859436/
• Platform: AMC+

Source As mention in the introduction lots of smiling, kissing and making out between Michonne and Rick, not that I don't want them to be happy on the story is just that we already had an entire episode of them arguing and kissing, can you just give them a new challenge? something that actually entertain because that's the truth, I wanted to watch loving and kissing would watch another series.

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I do like that this episode same as on other spin off gave us a different type of Zombie, like on Daryl Dixon spin off; walkers have mutated based on their environment surrounding both physical and behavior, this time a rock solid Zombie type shows up, they are still easy to beat if you have the right tools in this case rick has a iron fist so he can crack the outside of the zombie head while Michonne stab it with a iron bar, I would say this Zombies are also heavier so they are slower, that makes me think if they are heavier and rotten how can they stand still? probably this was a fresh one.

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Rick and Michonne saved some locals who were fighting this Zombie, they explain how they have change because of the steam vents, not sure how that process works though, there are also some other zombies who are almost like melted because of the heat.

All this loving and kissing got Rick and Michonne weak and slow, they were moving around in a YELLOW pickup truck you can see from far away and throwing Ramen wraps on the road, they also gave the locals food after saving them but that's normal since its the right thing to do although they did try to steal from them back minutes latter when they could pick up their guns, that didn't go well for them, when it comes to fight Rick and Michonne set the bar very high even if they have no guns.

At least they didn't entirely set the episode on fire an brought something interesting that will have some value in the future probably, Jadis was not always Jadis, she was once Anne an artist, she was also part of many other groups or communities in the past, as Anne she was in love with Gabriel, I remember him from the OG series, the guy was not always sane but he was OK. Jadis join the CRM because she was basically broken, she could not stand seen other community go down so this time around she wanted to be in control and power, thats what she gets out of the CRM and some how she was the only one to escape without others noticing at least once a year to meat with Gabriel, this shows she is smarter or at least better than Rick when you have to be cold and calculate things properly without feelings in the way.

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That is exactly why she finds Rick and Michonne after their helicopter crash, even after they shoot a rocket to the building Anne/Jadis could not believe that it was so easy to kill Rick and Michonne, she knows them too well and knows they are warriors, survivors over all though to kill so she kept looking, follow the clues, the cans and ramen wrap on the road, the yellow truck missing on the crash scene, she knew they were alive until she quickly found them and almost got rid of them but she just talk too much, she miss her advantage and got cocky waking them up and giving them a speech before trying to kill them, its two against one, you cant shoot to places at the same time, one of them going to run or jump you and that is exactly what happen.

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Jadis pulls the trigger and Michonne jump her, fuck her up badly on he rips area, Jadis enter desperate mode, loosing lot of blood, this is the type of entertaining I'm looking for not two episodes full of arguing and kissing.

It was obvious Jadis was going to die unless they come up to an agreement but she was just too cocky and proud, she wanted them dead, specially Rick so in disadvantage and hurt still tries to front Rick and pull a gun on him after she ask for temporary truce.

During this hole argument and Mexican stand up, there was the argument to go back to the CRM and change it, this idea came from the least one I though would say it, I even though she was trying to distract Jadis but Michonne meant it, she wants to go back with Rick so he can keep moving into the ranks until they have enough access to weapons and information, they could build a plan and kill say most of the high ranks on the CRM.

I really don't know whats going to happen next, the idea of going back coming from Michonne got me out of balance, never saw that one coming and at first you can tell neither Rick but seems that's the plan, Jadis is not on their way anymore and she told them where is their file. I suppose they go back, Rick goes up in the ranks and Michonne moves from citizen too although lets not forget that Pearl mindset has change after her promotion, she is now all in CRM and even if they manage to kill Major Beale they still have to deal with Pearl, she is a bad ass too that can bring on the fight, Rick probably is underestimating her or might think that she will join them, I hope not because then it would be just too easy for Rick and Michonne bring down the CRM.

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Everything start when Douglas is arrested by the police and is questioned by police psychologist Evelyn, Douglas decided to tell her his story. When he was a child he lived with his abusive father who trains fight dogs for living, dogs that Douglas love very much, one day Douglas just decided not talk to his father and mouths off to him, his father upset asked him if he love more those dogs than his family and Douglas answer was “Yes”, making his father so furious that decided to locked Douglas in the dog Kennel and let him live with the dogs. Months later Mike took out Douglas from the dog kennel but not to give him a better life, he just shoots Douglas with a shotgun paralyzing him from the waist down. The story moves forward and now Douglas tell his story when he live the the children home, there he met Salma a young actress and drama structure who presents Shakespeare to Douglas, she taught him how performance and disguise can help him overcome all the abuse suffered as a child, he was happy with her presence but suddenly she just dissapear never come back to the children home and he felt lonely again. Time passed and he grow up becoming in a person with two life during the nights he was a drag queen who performance the French chanteuse Edith Piaf to lip sync her song La Foule but his other life was as a “Dogman” a person who loves dogs, has plenty of them and teach them to steal from the reach, sounds like modern Robin Hood but he is not, Douglas is a bad person that is trying to do whatever it takes to have a better life because the only that he lives as child was horrible. Let see how the life of Douglas and his dogs end.

The premise of this story is unique but not something new, a person that has suffered so much since he was a child for all the abuse received from his father just because he love dogs, that child growing also create an unbreakable bond with those canines that as an adult has become their family, making them the shield that protect Douglas and the feet that steal everything he wants. A movie directed by the famous director Lec Besson that premised on April 05th, 2024.

• IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt18177528/
• Platform: Prime Video
• Release: April 05, 2024

Luc Besson: A Pioneer of French Cinema

Luc Besson in the mind behind the filming of the movie Dogman. Beson is a French writer, director and producer, in 1990 he founded his own production company Les Films du Loup later renamed Les Films du Dauphin. The director is know for been involving in the creation of more than 50 films and has remarkable production such as Subway 1985, The Big Blue 1988 and La Femme Nikita 1990 with this movie in particular the director start gained acclaimed worldwide. After those works he made the movie Leon: The Professional 1994 for which he was nominated for a Cesar Award for Best Director and Best Picture. 1997 he won Best Director and Best French Director in the Cesar and Lumieres Award for the film The Fifth Element, he also directed Lucy 2014 and Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets 2017. Luc Besson is a director that take his imagination to the limit giving extraordinary universe and giving a human conscious through the process of learning.

DogMan: A Story of Traumas and Pain The story of Douglas is tell by himself to the psychologist Evelyn when he is arrested. He told he all the pain that he lived when he was a kid with his abusive father and the lonely he felt when he stayed in a children home and start carrying for someone again that turn one the flame of life in him but suddenly that person also leave without saying goodbye. This movie is the exploration of traumas that a cruel childhood can leave in a person and take him/her to create in their adulthood an environment that let them feel love and secure, sometimes making that person live in an uncertain life. The director Luc Besson wanted to bring inspiration from real life events creating a story that stays in audience mind. It is a complex story with a survivor as a main character doing things that are wrong but showing an extremely love for dogs, the only ones from whom he received true love.

DogMan Not So Known Cast? Caleb Landry Jones leads the cast with the role of Douglas, Landry has participated in different projects giving great performances such as Banshee in X-Men: First Class, Jeremy Armitage in Get Out, Red Welby in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, Jeff in Finch and Martin Bryant in Nitram for which he won Best Actor in the Cannes Film Festival Award and Best Actor in a Leading Role in the AACT Award. Jonica “Jojo” T. Gibbs portrays Evelyn, Gibbs an American actress and comedian and is known for the her main role in the BET series Twenties. Christopher Denham plays Ackerman, Denham is an American actor, screenwriter and director, Denham is best known for his supporting roles in Shutter Island 2010, Argo 2012, Being the Ricardos 2021 and was also part of the movie Sound of My Voice 2011 a movie thas was premiered in the Sundance Film Festival that has become a cult phenomenon. John Charles Aguilar plays El Verdugo, Aguilar is making his debut in the big screen with Dogman. Grace Palma plays Salma Bailey, she is known for the short Bloody Good Sleep 2020 and now is making her debut in the big screen with Dogman. This is the cast chose bye director Besson that bring to life the story of Dogman.

Behind the Scenes of DogMan

The movie Dogman was film in Newark, New Jersey and in the virtual production studio in Essone, France. The production or filming has no problems but must of the attention was on the director Lec Besson for his controversies and previous accusations that until today has had no repercussion in the filmmaker. Also is impressive the amount of dogs that were used in the filming of the movie making more realistic the scene and also complicated. Dogman is a movie that will bring to the big screen director Lec Besson with a hard story and great performances.

Despite all the accusation that director Lec Besson has face during the past years is incredible to see a movie directed by him again, Besson is a director that has memorable movies such as The Fifth Element and Leon: The Professional, two movies that has gained him acclaimed and also has positioned him one of the greatest French filmmaker, for that reason now with Dogman, the director is giving action, traumas, love for dogs, a story that audience is going to love for the dogs and the plot or is going to hate probably because will make no sense for them, no matter what it seems that the story is cruel with action scenes and with dogs running all over the city just to satisfy his master. Hope it is a good story and that audience can enjoy the performances, the direction and obviously the dogs.

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Its only episode one and a lot of things going on although not much since everything surrounds a single mystery, ever since I saw the trailer this TV series got my attention since it has to be related with some sort of alien tech although I was not sure if its also time travel related or both??

I feel the story is a little bit crowded to start with a lot of characters, there is the main character so far Ye whose daughter killed herself after probably watching a count down same as other scientist who have been going through the same trauma but in the case of Ye she is a survivor from a revolution in China during the 60's, a revolution mainly about science, I'm still not clear what were their demands but their leaders were after something big, trying to communicate with something out there, do they mean space? or future?

A group of friends, all scientist suffer the death of her teacher Vera, most of their projects are been shut down due to lack of results a common denominator across many Particle Colliders around the world and now one of the them is starting to see the count down everywhere she goes, the question is how, when and why would it stop or what it means?? certain only sci-fi events happen like the universe wink at you, like the starts start to Morse code all at once.

• IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13016388/
• Platform: Netflix

Revolution during the 60's going on in China, looks like a witch hunt, they hunting scientist but I'm not sure if its because they teaching or believe in certain not proven or wrong theories? Ye Wenjie father is on stage accuse, he refuse to accept there is space for God in any of the theories he teach so is this revolution about God? come one people make up your mind.

It seems that this was the young ones only, the puppets, Ye after loosing her father got recruited by higher ranks because they needed scientist like her with lot of talent to help with their communications experiments, makes me think then why kill her father? well probably he was at the wrong place at wrong time, a bit confusing this part of the story and this is not good for viewers.

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Benedict Wong from Avengers show up this time as an investigator, his name Da Shi; working on a case where different scientist kill themself for unknown reasons, this last one had high possibilities of getting the novel prize on physics, Vera experiment also discover something they could not explain so is there something or someone killing all this scientist on purpose before they get to close to a big discovery?? this is the part that starts to get interesting, there is a connection between all this dead scientist.

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Continue with introducing characters, Saul was working with Vera on her experiment and its the last day the Collider will remain functional after they were shut down because their experiment was going no where, Saul is very irrelevant at this point but he still alive that's what matters because what if this is a type of The Ring effect where everyone one of them start to see the count down at some point? Different than others Vera look very calm and cool before she kill herself jumping into a pool of some sort of fluid, probably deadly, her last question to Saul was about God.

Next in the group of friends, Jin and Auggie; at a bar having a drink were notified by Saul about Vera's death, they were discussing the anomalies on Vera's experiment and how physics and science over all have got to a dead end but I think they were talking about physics mostly, there are other parts of science probably making discoveries and working on things, it was at this moment that Auggie start to see the count down, it started as a Matrix glitch effect until numbers came up in front of her eyes making what ever was behind them look blurry.

After Vera's funeral all five friends gather to have a drink and talk about how weird all this was. John Bradley play the role of Jack Rooney but he is not a scientist, I like he is not playing a nerdy shy role as he usually does, this time a kind of ass hole all about money guy, as usual he is very funny. Auggie has been feeling off after constantly watching this count down even visit a Neurologist to figure out whats wrong with her, only Jin knows at the moment, that night she step out of the bar for a smoke and a young women offers to light up her cigarette with a very devilish smile on her, she tells Auggie she knows about the countdown and the only way to stop it is if she shuts down her lab, Auggie has a nano tech lab; its like some one is trying to stop different experiments going on that could probably lead to new tech? or the end of the world? again this is the part, the idea, that is interesting.

Jin visits Vera's mother, Ye; after a few days to help her and get some clues of why Vera would kill herself and Ye mention everything look normal with her, nothing strange, nothing out of the ordinary except a video game that Vera would play none stop, thats when Ye gave Jin the headset, looks like a piece of metal no lenses or headphones. I wonder why Ye been a scientist too didn't put it on after Vera die, trying to figure out the death of her daughter?

It seems critics and audience are in sync about this series, solid 7/10 on IMDB and RTT, I agree on this after watching the first episode I would say solid 7.5 for me, the mystery about why this scientist can see this countdown and why the women who talk to Auggie ask her to shut down her lab only tells me that either she will make a big discovery or could turn out very bad for humans, Aliens in movies usually want to help humans from eradicating themself although its not clear who is making this scientist watch this count down. The headset I want to see more of that and find out if it is really a game or a simulation of whats going to happen, the story about the China revolution not so interesting to me unless this series is about time travel and they have discover a way to send messages through time, lots of questions, I'll definitely continue to watch this series but on the traditional one episode a week since I don't like watching them all at once Netflix release style.

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The movie follow Ollie Cross in his new life as a paramedic, he decided to do this job because is going to help him in paying his studies, he want to be a doctor and to gained experience. Cross is presenting with Gene Rutkovsky that man that is going to be his partner in the night shift, Rutkovsky better know as Rut is a veteran paramedic that has seen everything and nothing can surprise him anymore for that reason Rut decided to say to Cross “Beware of black flies, they the first to smell death”, Cross didn’t quite understand what was Rut trying to say to him but life is going to show him that lesson. The first call of the night was received and the team of paramedics prepared to attend the call, a moments late they arrived in a abandoned apartment where unfortunately they couldn’t do much because the person was already dead, they then start the process of removed the movie and take it to the morgue in the ambulance Rut asked to Cross if that was the first time that he ever watched someone he knew actually die and Cross replies yes, his own mother that committed suicide when he was a child. The story will continue showing the colleagues in his job every night trying to do the best they can in situation such as the abused and beaten wives, the drug addicted, the ignored immigrants and the though gang members that sometimes make they job more difficult. Cross is living all this during the night but during the day he is struggle to commit with his studies and the exams that he has to present. Every night for Cross is apparently a challenge but Rut is there to guide the newbie in hardly job, something things can escalated and touch deeply in Cross like a badly beaten wife that is still threatened by her husband even thought the paramedics try to take her to the hospital or an scene were apparently a pregnant heroin user gave birth but the baby born dead, this case of scenarios continue every night making Cross realized the New York is not what is seems in the surface in the darker halls exist a different world, a world full of cruelty, suffering, people trying to survive and two paramedics trying to save the most people the can. Also the movie will show a little of the personal life of each character Cross with his girlfriend and Rut struggling with the decision of his ex wife of moving to another city with his daughter.

Asphalt City is an intense movie that is going to show scenarios one after another of chaos, lost, pain and cruelty of society, director Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire want to show a different perspective of a big city that is glorify for many but is a hell for others and a perspective from a paramedic that work in the night shift is the way that he decided to show the audience that New York is not perfect and that reality could be cruel. Asphalt City premiered on March 29th in theaters.

• IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt18177528/
• Platform: Theaters
• Release: March 29, 2024

Critics: Too much exaggerated

The movie Asphalt City was premiered in the Cannes Film Festival in 2023 with the name of Black Flies for the adaptation of Shannon Burke’s 2008 novel Black Flies. Critics have acclaimed the performance of Sean Penn and Tye Sheridan, giving emotion and reality to their characters but critics has also dislike for the cruelty and the exaggeration of the job that a real paramedic has to do mention that in the movie they seems to be more like two cops in every crime scene, despite all that the director vision is accepted and the movie is side of a city that also needs to be known.

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Director’s Vision: Reality at the big screen

Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire is a French filmmaker, producer and screenwriter that is best known for the films Johnny Mad Dog 2008, A Prayer Before Dawn 2017 and now Asphalt City 2024. The career of the director started in 1991 as a first assistant director of the film Les Nuits Fauves By Cyril Collard and continue doing that job until 2000, after gained experience he decided to give a step on his directorial career and directed three short films La Mule, A Dios and Matalo later in 2008 he made the movie Johnny Mad Dog which one that was presented in the Cannes Film Festival winning the Prix de L’Espoir. Sauvaire is a director that is not afraid to show the dark side of society and dig into the characters psyche until they reveal their deepest fears and desires.

A veteran and a rookie: Showing the Cast of Asphalt City

The cast of Asphalt city is lead by Sean Penn as Gene Rutkovsky, Penn is an American actor and director, as an actor he won an Academy Award for his roles in the movie Mystic River 2003 and in Milk 2008, Penn has a long filmography that reflect his expertise and great work. Tye Sheridan plays Ollie Cross, Sheridan is an American actor that made his debut in the film The Tree of Life 2001, in 2016 he take the role of Scotter Summer known as Cyclope in X-Mex Apocalypse and In Ready Player One of 2018 he performed Wade Owen. Gbenga Akinnagbe is an American actor and writer, Akinnagbe is known for his role in the series The Wire of 2002 as Chris Partlow and in the series The Deuce of 2017 as Larry Brown. Katherine Waterston as Nancy, Waterson is an British actress that made her debut in the movie Michael Clayton 2007 but she is known for her performance in the movie Inherent Vice 2014, she also portrayed Chrisann Brennan in the movie Steve Jobs 2015 and take the role of Tina Goldstein in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2016. Mike Tyson is in the role of Chief Burroughs, Tyson is a former boxer that make his appearance in this movie.

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Production Challenges

The movie Asphalt City at the beginning was titled with the name Black Flies that was because it is an adaptation of Shannon Burke’s Novel with the same name Black Flies, due to it is an adaptation director was more careful in the process of scripting and directing to capture the essence of the original story, despite that the filming process was pleasant with a cast that gave everything to deliver great performances. Alphat City is a movie that is going to give to the audience many emotions thanks to the great performances and the view of director Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire about a dark New York City.

Based on Shannon Burke’s 2008 novel Black Flies, Asphalt City wants to reflect in this movie the vision of a director who has live for many years in the great city of New York, with the story of two paramedics, one as the rookie and the second a veteran that nothing impress him anymore, is a plot of a dark city full of crime, drugs, abuse, gangs members that is reflecting a different and also a real perspective of a city that is glorify by many but as is also a hell for others, at the same is the place were the devil walk between everyone and we don’t if this destiny but Ollie Cross is the person chose in this life that is going to feel all the pain and frustration of every call he received and must attend all this to confirm if he is strong enough to pass through all those challenges and can pass with success all the test that life is going to force him to face.

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The pioneers are alone

Los pioneros están solos

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This movie start with a vision of Kong in the Hollow Earth were is feels a little lonely, all seem to be calm with Kong having a extremely peaceful life but everything changed when he start feeling some signals that don’t feel as a good premonition meanwhile in the surface Jia also feels those signals thinking that something is wrong with her, she told her mom how she was feeling and after that her mom Ilene also start receiving those signals in her laboratory, signals that they discover are coming from the Hollow Earths. Returning with Kong he met Suko a little ape that lives in the Hollow Earth and make Kong realize that he is not alone, soon he discover that a group of apes lead by Skar King live in the Hollow Earth and want to destroy everything in the surface. Kong decided to look for help and went to the surface finding Jia and her mom that create a team that travel with Kong back to the Hollow Earth to face against Scar King. A fight begins between Kong and Scar King but everything changed when a new enemy enter in scene, an enemy that is the biggest threat of Kong and enemy that couldn’t defeat. While all this is happening in his resting place Godzilla is feeling that signal too and decided to wake up of his innervation to see what is happening. Godzilla and Kong returned to the surface and saw each other start a fight but Kong let Godzilla knows that he is no more his enemy that a biggest enemy is coming and they need to fight together against that Titan.

Godzilla vs Kong The New Empire is the sequel of the movie Godzilla vs Kong of 2021 but in this new movie this monsters needs to work together to face a new enemy that is more bigger, more powerful and more dangerous. The audience are eagerly await for the release of this new movie and the fans hope that in fact with all new titans that are going to appear in this new movie the wait was worth it. The movie premiered is on March 29th on theaters.

• IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14539740/
• Platform: Theaters
• Release: March 29, 2024

Adam Wingard: The Artist Behind the Chaos

Adam Wingard is an American director that has also served as producer, screenwriter, editor, actor and composer, the director has a career that start with indi productions, his first indi movie was a horror comedy called Home Sick 2007 and was follow by another horror movie called Pop Skull this movie was made with a low budget only $2,000 and had an international premiered in the Rome Film Festival, since there the director start gaining notoriety. In 2014 the director premiered the movie The Guest starring by Dan Stevens receiving critical acclaim, after that he directed The Blair Witch of 2016, a year later the director bring to life the story of the acclaim anime Death Note released on Netflix, that same year Wingar started working on the movie Godzilla vs Kong which was released on March 2021, now on 2024 the sequel of Godzilla vs Kong: The New Empire is under the lead of Wingard and promised to be epic. We can see that Adam Wingard start in indi movies with low budged but during the time he gained experience and trust from the big film houses to bet on him and his vision and with this sequel he wants to continue giving the audience a visual spectacle.

Reunited Again: Godzilla vs Kong The New Empire Cast

Rebecca Hall return in this movie as Ilene Andrews, Hall is an English actress and filmmaker, her first appearance was in television at the age of 10 on the program The Camomile Lawn, 2016 was the year of her discovery working in the movie The Prestige which one directed by Christopher Nolan gaining acclaimed for her performance but on 2008 she received a Golden Globe for Best Actress her role as Vicky on the movie Vicky Cristina Barcelona. Brian Tyree Henry is an American actor, his fame started with his role of rapper Alfred Paper Boi Miles in the FX comedy drama series Atlanta 2016 for this role he received a nomination at the Emmy Awards for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series, after that he continue working in different roles in television, he jumps to the big screen in the movie Widows 2018 he also worked in the Joker 2019, Godzilla vs Kong 2021, Eternals 2021 and 2022 received an Academy Award for Supporting Actor in the movie Causeway. Kaylee Hottle is a deaf American actress, she plays Jia in the MonsterVerse of Godzilla vs. Kong 2021 and is returning to her role in this sequel. Dan Stevens portrays Trapper, he is an English Actor known for his role of Matthew Crawley in the TV series Downton Abbey and also known for his role of the Beast in the live action of the Beauty and the Beast 2017. Fala Chen take the role of Iwi Queen, Chen is a chinese actress known for the work in Hong Kong TVB drama and appearances in movie such as Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings 2021. Rachel House as Hampton, she is a New Zealand actress and director best known for her roles in the movie Whale Rider 2002, Boy 2010 and Hunt for the Wilderpeople 2016.

Exploring Titans and Mysteries The new adventure that brings director Wingard is a story that will force two colossal monsters to joined their forces against a biggest threat. Godzilla vs Kong The New Empire is going to explore more about the Hollow Earth that has fascinated the audience with all the visual and imagination that creators of this universe now are bringing to the big screen. New battles and new enemies are going to appeared in the world and humanity needs the force of our Titans friends Godzilla and Kong, a new Titan more bigger and powerful appeared to destroy everything and our Titan friends are going to give everything of their power to protect the world.

Anticipation and Expectations The wait is almost over for the premiered of the expected sequel of Godzilla vs Kong The New Empire, fans of this franchise and the MonsterVerse are excited to finally see what the new adventure is bringing to the big screen, under the direction of Adam Wingard the expectation are really high and the audience is really hoping that this new movie has quality in the visual and in the plot. With a new Titan as the villain and the team work of Godzilla and Kong to save humanity the critics are going to scrutinize every detail of the movie to confirm that is what fans and audience are expecting.

This time the fight on the sequel of Godzilla vs Kong The New Empire is not between Godzilla vs Kong is against a major threat threat that is gaining filed in the Hollow Earth, King Skar has created a rebellion to destroy Kong and bring his power to the surface with a major force of a unknown Titan that Kong can’t defeat by himself and that’s why Kong and Godzilla for this time agreed to joined force to save the world. Definitely a movie that fans are waiting to see and enjoy with all the actions, visual, more about the Hollow Earth and the most important the appearance of the new Titans that are the enemies in this new battle. A moment to enjoy the MonsterVerse that brings director Adam Wingard, despite the good or bad movies that already exist about Kong or Godzilla or they both together this a movie that caught my attention and more for the premise of the new Titans that are going to appear in this movie and the decision of Godzilla and Kong of fight together against this enemy, this is a movie that definitely I am going to watch.

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