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Sherlock : Series Review

                 One of the world's most famous fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, gets a modern retelling spinoff in the BBC series "Sherlock". Set in the modern backdrops of modern London, Sherlock series provides an entire new perspective to the original Victorian era Sherlock Holmes which was penned down by the legendary Sir Arthur Conan Boyle.                 Modern day Sherlock Holmes is played by Benedict Cumberbatch and Dr. Watson is played by Martin Freeman. The duo is extremely talented and have great chemistry between them. Other supporting cast include Mark Gatiss as Mycroft Holmes , Rupert Graves as Inspector Lestrade and Una Stubbs as Mrs Hudson. "Moriarty", Sherlock's arch nemesis is played by Andrew Scott and Sherlock's love interest "Irene Adler"  is played by none other than Lara Pulver. As the series is set in modern times, use of technology and resources is high...
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Top 7 Action Movies of All Time

 Best action movies have pure action, punchy fight scenes, epic chase sequences, tense shoot-outs, and boom!! explosions. Here is a list of 7 of all time  best action movies. Note that no super-hero movies are included in the list as they cannot be considered in action but rather in fiction. So, enjoy the Action Movies that you want:- John Wick (2014) Director: Chad Stahelski Starring: Keanu Reeves, Ian McShane, Lance Reddick, John Leguizamo Budget: $20-30 million Ratings:- IMDB: 7.4/10 Rotten Tomatoes: 86% Metacritic: 68% Die Hard (1988) Director: John McTiernan Starring: Bruce Willis, Alan Rickman, Bonnie Bedelia, Reginald VelJohnson Budget: $25-35 million Ratings:- IMDB: 8.2/10 Rotten Tomatoes: 93% Metacritic: 72% Casino Royal (2006) Director: Martin Campbell Starring: Daniel Craig, Eva Green, Judi Dench, Mads Mikkelsen Budget: $616.5 million Ratings:- IMDB: 8/10 Rotten Tomatoes: 94% Metacritic: 80% Edge Of Tomorrow (2014) Director: Doug Liman Starring: Tom Cruise, Emily Bl...

Top 7 Sci-Fi Movies of All Time

 Sci-fi movies often involve speculation based on current or future science and technology. Sci-fi genre extent a wide range of themes that often explore time travel, space travel, parallel universe, extraterrestrial life, a story set in the future.  Let's talk about the "Top 7 Sci-Fi Movies of All Time" :- Interstellar (2014) Director: Christopher Nolan Starring: Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, Michael Caine Budget: $165 million Ratings:- IMDB: 8.6/10 Rotten Tomatoes: 72% Metacritic: 74% Runtime: 2h 49m Inception (2010) Director: Christopher Nolan Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Cillian Murphy, Tom Hardy Budget: $160 million Ratings:- IMDB: 8.8/10 Rotten Tomatoes: 87% Metacritic: 74% Runtime: 2h 28m The Martian (2015) Director: Ridley Scott Starring: Matt Damon, Jessica Chastain, Kate Mara, Chiwetel Ejiofor Budget: $108 million Ratings:- IMDB: 8.0/10 Rotten Tomatoes: 91% Metacritic: 80% Runtime: 2h 22m Arrival (2016) Director: Den...

Fairy Tail : Anime Review

  Power of friendship and the bonds that comrades share, this is the main plot of Fairy Tail. Set in a fictional world of mages and guilds, the story follows the adventures of Natsu Dragneel, a member of the popular wizard guild Fairy Tail, as he searches the fictional world of Earth-land for the dragon Igneel. Based on a manga by Hiro Mashima, the TV series was only supposed to run for 48 episodes. But it proved so popular, it was expanded to more than 170 episodes, and has already spun off one feature, several OVA’s and loads of character merchandise. The anime revolves around the main protagonist Natsu and his friends Lucy, Happy, Erza and Gray. As the anime moves forward, other members of the guild are introduced to us as well as other guilds and members and the relations they share with each other. The world is diverse and rich with a whole lot of characters, each having their own backstories. The fights between different mages using diverse kinds of magics is really fun to wa...

Dark : Series Review

               All the fans of time travel have got themselves a very nice treat with this new series by Netflix. This new series Dark is a German science fiction thriller family drama series created by Baran bo Odar and Jantje Friese. Set in the fictional small town of Winden, it revolves around four interconnected families haunted by their secrets, and contains elements of science fiction and fantasy. In 2019 a local boy disappears which catapults a series of bizarre events, from a mystery man coming from the future to travelling through time. Though this series starts slow at first but just after one or two episodes we get gripped in on the entire premise of bizarre time travel and alternate reality. All the time travelling loopholes that we have seen in other movies are near-perfectly explained in this series and though the concepts explained in the series might be too complicated for the less geeky sci-fi people, the devoted ones have found...

Interstellar : Movie Review

  Director Christopher Nolan's INTERSTELLAR takes place in a future in which severe drought has killed most of the world's crops, and humans are dying of starvation and disease on a doomed, dust-covered Earth. Daily sandstorms have become a part of their life. Cooper (Matthew McConaughey) is a former NASA pilot/engineer who, like the majority of Americans, has had to trade in his defunct career to work as a farmer. Cooper lives with his 15 year old son  Tom(Timothée Chalamet), 10 year old  daughter Murph (Mackenzie Foy) and his aged father-in-law Donald(John Lithgrow). Cooper's scientific curiosity is passed down to his daughter who swears there's a ghost in her bedroom leaving her messages in code. Cooper doesn't believe at first but then helps Murph decipher one of the codes, leading them to a secret lab run by Professor Brand (Michael Caine), who heads what's left of NASA. Brand reveals that 10 years back they sent a group of scientists through a wormhole lea...