Genre: Spy thriller cum war movie Platform: Lionsgate Play thru Amazon (Paid) Time: 8 episodes x average 45 minutes Languages: English. French. Arabic. Kurdish Cast: Félix Moati (Antoine Habert). Mélanie Thierry (Anna Habert). Souheila Yacoub (Sarya Dogan). James Krishna Floyd (Nasser Yassin). Jaouhar Ben Ayed (Iyad Bel Tagi). Dean Ridge (Paul Wilkins). James Purefoy (Stanley). […]
This is my 200th Post since November 2022 . I have been steadily posting every sunday and I wanted something special and chose the classic The Seven Samurai Clickable Links in red It can be argued that Akira Kurosawa’s film The Seven Samurai is highly influential worldwide as it put post WW2 Japan on the […]
Genre: Indian War Movie (TV series) Platform: Netflix Time: 6 episodes x average 55 minutes Cast: Siddharth (Squadron Leader Ajay Ahuja). Jimmy Shergill (Wing Commander ‘Tony’ Dhanoa). Adil Hussain (Air Marshal Vinod Patney). Abhay Verma (Flying Officer Rajpal Singh Dhaliwal a.k.a. Dhali). Mihir Ahuja (Flying Officer C.H. Bal Reddy a.k.a. Baldy). K.C Shankar (Squadron leader […]
Clickable links in red Genre: Spy Thriller Platform: Jio Hotstar Time: 6 episodes x average 48 minutes Cast: Simon Pegg (Danny Patrick). Sian Brooke (Barbara Napier). German Segal (Vadim Trusov). Danny Sapani (Charles Francis). Cloe Pirrie (Lt.Col. Roz Cavendish). Jason Tobin (Nicky Chan). Hannah Khalique-Brown (Saara Parvin). Ed Stoppard (Foreign Secretary Richard Marston). Plot: Danny […]
Genre: Spy Thriller Platform: Amazon Prime – paid (thru BBC Player) Time: 5 episodes x average 45 minutes Cast: Gemma Arterton (Kate Henderson). Rafe Spall (Stuart Henderson). Alex Kingston (Rose Trewen). Galaxie Clear (Fiona Henderson). Avi Nash (Ravindra “Rav” Sangvhi). Mark Stanley (Ryan Walker, MP and Foreign Secretary). Alexander Terentyev (Sergei Malinski, SVR operative). Plot: […]
Clickable links in red Genre: Spy Thriller Platform: Jio Hotstar Time: 6 episodes x average 48 minutes Cast: Hannah Khalique-Brown (Saara Parvin). Simon Pegg (Danny Patrick). Maisie Richardson-Sellers (Kathy Freeman). Edward Holcroft (James Cox). German Segal (Vadim Trusov). Tinatin Dalakishvili (Marina Yeselova). Mark Rylance (John Yeabsley. Plot: As part of her University Computer science course, […]
Genre: Spy Thriller Platform: Jio Hotstar Time: 10 episodes x average 50 minutes Cast: Michael Fassbender (Martian). Jeffrey Wright (Henry Ogletree). Katherine Waterston (Naomi). Harriet Sansom Harris (Dr. Blake). Saura Lightfoot-Leon (Daniela aka Danny). Jodie Turner-Smith (Samia Zahir). Richard Gere (Bosko, Head of London Station). India Fowler (Poppy).Hugh Bonneville (James Richardson). Plot: Martian is […]
Genre: Suspense Thriller Platform: Amazon Prime – Rent Director: Alfred Hitchcock Time: 1 hour 47 minutes Cast: James Stewart (L.B. Jefferies). Grace Kelly (Lisa Fremont). Thelma Ritter (Stella). Wendell Corey (Tom Doyle). Raymond Burr (Lars Thorwald) Plot: Due to an accident in which his leg was fractured while capturing a motor race accident, photographer Jeffries […]
When I was doing research for my book on Hrishikesh Mukherjee (Human Cinema available on Amazon on Kindle and Print ; for Amazon link, please click here http://bit.ly/4pnxUPL ), I came across this statement by Hrishida – “My film is not a copy of any foreign film; it is just a story of two friends […]
Clickable links in red Genre: Based on a True Story – Business Platform: Amazon Prime Director: Robbie Grewal Time: 6 episodes x 50 minutes average Cast: Naseeruddin Shah (JRD Tata). Jim Sarbh (Xerxes Desai). Vaibhav Tatwawadi (Akash Bansal). Kaveri Seth (Megha Mhatre). Lakshvir Saran (Gaurav Dhar). Plot: Surprised to discover that watch smuggling is a […]