Atypical Binging

Ladies Room (2016) IMDb Plot Summary: This is a story of two besties and the mental adventures they go through in six different loos. It is a show about modern young 'girl bros' struggling to grow up even as they grow old. These girls are mad, bad and completely unapologetic about it! This show is about the story of two young girls living a very dysfunctional life. Every single episode of this Indian TV miniseries takes place in a loo and for most parts, in a loo alone. And its pretty damn amazing. The script is good, the punches are on point, the acting is pretty much all you could wish for and its all topped with amazing direction, set, etc. etc. Apart from slight problems in the script and direction here and there, its a really good miniseries to watch. Just 6 short episodes packed with some amazing fun. A recommended watch for sure. An IMDb 9/10. Ref:  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5798814/

Tripling (2016) IMDb Plot Summary: Divorced, jobless, hopeless. Three siblings plan a road trip together. Chandan, Chanchal & Chitvan. Together they start a hilarious journey, to find themselves and their relations. Tripling is the story of three siblings who, although haven't been in close touch for a long time, end up taking a road trip as a result of unforeseen circumstances and end up re-kindling their relationship in the process. This one's an Indian TV miniseries and I have to say that its bloody brilliant for most parts. The only major flaw here though is that the last 1 1/2 episodes fall short in terms of the script where it becomes way too slow and drags on and on. It would have worked really well for the show had it cut down on one episode and made the ending much more tighter. Anyhow, the show's still really good and one of the really good feel good shows that I have watched. An IMDb 9/10. Ref:  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt6005644/...

Bisht, Please! (2017) IMDb Summary: The misadventures of a good girl. 'Bisht, Please!' is an Indian TV miniseries that tells the story about a 'good' old fashioned girl, Bisht, who tries to do everything by the rules. She ends up getting pushed around by everyone and hence everyone around her takes advantage of her and asks her to do tasks for them, succeeded with a meaningless 'please'; a request that she will always oblige (hence the title!). While this TV series has some really amazing moments, the script falls short by a mile. Some parts are so splendidly written, while the others just drag along way too much. This series contains some amazing dark and sexual humour, which is not so commonly seen in Indian live action media and is a pleasant surprise. There are places in this miniseries where the silliest of jokes are played out but they are so amazingly placed and so well executed that its guaranteed to make you laugh (its like one of...

Rememory (2017) 'Without memories, the present would be void of context' IMDb Plot Summary:  The widow of a wise professor stumbles upon one of his inventions that's able to record and play a person's memory. The IMDb plot summary for this movie doesn't do this film any justice. So this is what the movie is all about. Gordon Dunn has invented a machine that can fetch the memories of a person, anything a person has even lived through even if he doesn't remember it himself, up to the minutest detail and play it back to them as a video on a screen. One day, he mysteriously dies. This is when a strange man, Sam, played by Peter Dinklage, goes around trying to find out how Gordon died, suspecting that foul play was involved. This movie will take you on an emotional ride. If you are looking for an 'experience', this movie is the one for you. Dim the lights, put on your headphones and let the movie do its magic. Its got some awesome soundtra...

Narcos (2015) 'To kill a monster, sometimes, you have to get in bed with other monsters. If that surprises you, pick up a history book. Its what we do; the enemy of my enemy is my friend' IMDb Plot Summary:  A chronicled look at the criminal exploits of Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar, as well as the many other drug kingpins who plagued the country through the years. The first two seasons of this genius TV show was about the drug lord Pablo Escobar. Now everyone knows about Pablo and so the fact that he dies at the end of it all should come as no surprise to anyone. And since the first two seasons were solely focused on Escobar and his empire and everything that surrounded his reign, with his death, we all decided without even giving it a second thought that this amazing TV show had come to an end. And today I browse the internet to find Narcos has hit us all with another season! This time focusing on the Cali cartel that grew while everyone was focused on Pab...

Bloodline (2015) 'Sometimes, you know something's coming' IMDb Plot Summary:  A family of adult siblings find that their past secrets and scars are revealed when their black sheep of a brother returns home. Its pretty weird how it took me two years since it aired to watch a TV series with such a compelling plot line. Anyways, I'm glad that I did. So here's the gist of what this show is all about. The Rayburns are a wealthy family who own a huge beach-side resort and are very respected by the community. One day, one of the oldest sun of the old man Rayburn who is living a wasteful life in Miami comes home and along with him surfaces some childhood secrets that give way to a disastrous chain of events. While the plot in itself is interesting, the only problem with this show is that the script isn't engrossing enough and after the first few episodes, the plot that develops seems very un-compelling and too much stretched out. Had this TV s...

The Founder (2016) 'You know what? Contracts are like hearts. They are meant to be broken' IMDb Plot Summary:  The story of Ray Kroc, a salesman who turned two brothers' innovative fast food eatery, McDonald's, into the biggest restaurant business in the world with a combination of ambition, persistence and ruthlessness. I know that a lot of people hate McDonalds. I on the other hand absolutely love it; in fact, its my favourite fast food franchise, always has been. And this is the story of the man who helped bring this food industry empire to a stage where it feeds 1% of the world's population everyday. The story of McDonald's is available all over the internet, but I'll put a short version of it here. Two brothers with the family name McDonald started a restaurant called McDonalds that served burgers in 30 seconds instead of the standard 30 minutes; at that time, this was a giant feat and no one had done something like this before. By c...

Strike (2017) IMDb Plot Summary: Private investigator Cormoran Strike is hired to find out if a supermodel's suicide in London may have been a murder. I am a big (big is an understatement actually) fan of Robert Galbraith (J.K. Rowling)'s Cormoran Strike novel series. I was just so overjoyed when I had heard sometime back that Rowling had agreed to adaptation of her Strike novels to the big screen. I was expecting the adaption would manifest itself in the form of a movie but I was pleasantly surprised when yesterday I found out that the adaptation was in fact in the form of a TV series that had rolled out by the title 'Strike'. Let me put this out there first - this TV series is near perfect. I can guarantee that there can never be as good and as perfect a conversion from a book series to a TV series as this one. The makers of this TV show didn't take a lot of liberty with the story; in fact, everything in this series is almost exactly the same as in...

Wild Tales (2014) IMDb Plot Summary:  Six short stories that explore the extremities of human behaviour involving people in distress. Wild tales is an anthology foreign language film features several tales of revenge. This film explores revenge that manifests itself in various forms and how it affects the person vying for the revenge and those around him. Here's a breakdown of the short films that are contained inside this anthology masterpiece: 1. Pasternak - Two strangers on a plane realise that they know the same person and soon find out that everyone on the plane is same as them in this regard. This film explores how even the smallest of actions can have dire consequences and how dangerously revenge can manifest itself when a person has been continuously beaten down in small doses over the course of his life. 2. Las Ratas - A waitress working in a restaurant realises that the customer she is serving is a loan shark who was responsible for her father's dea...

The Deuce (2017) IMDb Plot Summary:  A look at life in New York City during the 1970s and '80s when porn and prostitution were rampant in Manhattan. I'm usually not a fan of movies and shows set in the drug and sex world of the 70s and the 80s but this show works amazingly well even for someone like me who isn't a fan of this sub genre. Up until now, only the first episode has aired, so its a little too soon to make up my mind about this show, but as far as the pilot goes, it looks really good. James Franco plays a double role. Maggie Gyllenhaal plays a sex worker. There's a lot of nudity in this show, as would be expected from the plot. I have a really good feeling about this one. I'll update this blog post as the show progresses. For now, I'll give it an IMDb 9/10 and put it on the ' recommended ' list. Ref:  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4998350/

The Hitman's Bodyguard (2017) IMDb Plot Summary:  The world's top bodyguard gets a new client, a hit man who must testify at the International Court of Justice. They must put their differences aside and work together to make it to the trial on time. I don't have a lot to say about the movie, except the fact that I utterly hated it. But I also believe the reason I hated this was probably because I hate movies in the spoof genre in general. Though I can imagine people who like movies like 'The Interview' would also definitely love this. So if you are like me, then please don't watch this. You'll simply end up wishing for your time back. I liked Elodie Yung's performance in this movie that deserves a special mention. Amongst all the other bullshit that goes around in this movie, her character is a welcome sight. An IMDb 3/10 for me, fans of this genre would probably not agree with me on this. Ref:  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1959563/ ...

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Death Note (2017) IMDb Plot Summary:  Light Turner, a bright student, stumbles across a mystical notebook that has the power to kill any person whose name he writes in it. Light decides to launch a secret crusade to rid the streets of criminals. Soon, the student-turned-vigilante finds himself pursued by a famous detective known only by the alias L. Death Note has got to be one of the most popular and well done anime of all time. When I heard Netflix was gonna make an American remake, I was too damn excited. And today that I've watched it, I'm utterly devastated. This movie is a 101 on how to destroy an amazing concept. Everything in the movie was bad; from the acting, to the direction, to the script, the graphics special effects, the sound, the cinematography...if I have left anything out, feel free to add them here. Death Note is the sort of story where you need to develop a strong emotional connection to the characters and the way this movie is implemented ma...

Equals (2015) 'It's so weird; I'm like... I keep thinking about... Ever since we were kids, it's been drilled to us that our purpose is to explore the universe, you know? Outer space is where we'll find the answers to why we're here and where we come from. It's like everyone's... searching for these answers eight hundred million miles away and the truth is the answers are right in front of us' IMDb Plot Summary:  In an emotionless utopia, two people fall in love when they regain their feelings from a mysterious disease, causing tensions between them and their society. Equals is set in a society where emotions are considered to be defects or a disease in humans and have been, over time, removed from the human gene because it was thought of as the reason for a massive war that took place. Sometimes for some people, this repressed gene that's responsible for emotions surface and they are considered to be defective members of the huma...

Megan Leavey (2017) 'You don't leave because you have somewhere to go, you leave because nothing is keeping you there' IMDb Plot Summary:  Based on the true life story of a young Marine corporal whose unique discipline and bond with her military combat dog saved many lives during their deployment in Iraq. This movie is based on a true story about a total washout who one day suddenly decides to join the US Marine Corps. There, she ends up being a handler to a sniffer dog who is deemed hard to control by other handlers and she ends up forming a special bond with this dog. While Kate Mara is amazing in this movie, nothing else pretty much works. One of the biggest things that work against this movie is the huge length. The movie spans over 2 hours, which is just way too much for what they wanted to show and it just simply bores you to death midway through the movie. A much better script would have made this movie so much better. An IMDb 4/10 . Disappoin...

What Happened to Monday? (2017) 'What happens to one of you, happens to all of you' IMDb Plot Summary: In a world where families are limited to one child due to overpopulation, a set of identical septuplets must avoid being put to a long sleep by the government and dangerous infighting while investigating the disappearance of one of their own. This movie is set in a distant future where population growth has increased manifold and reached catastrophic numbers. A new agency is created under the Child Allocation (CA) act, which prohibits anyone from having more than one child. Siblings are taken away and put to cryo sleep in hopes of waking them up one day in the future when the population problem has been resolved. Amidst this mess, seven children are born together (septuplets) to the same mother and the grandfather, an influential man, decides to hide them from the CA enforcers by keeping them grounded inside their home. When they become old enoug...

The Unknown Girl (2016) 'She doesn't care. She's dead' 'If she was dead, she wouldn't be in our heads' IMDb Plot Summary: A woman gets obsessed with the case of a dead woman after learning that the woman had died shortly after having rung her door for help. This story is about a talented young doctor who loves and is loved by her patients. Tragedy strikes when one day, a pair of detectives come to her doorstep and inform her that a girl has been murdered and that the girl had rung her doorbell just moments before her death, a call which she hadn't answered because it was too late in the night. This fills her with guilt blaming herself for the girl's death as she feels she would have saved the girl if only she had answered the door at the time. Finding her mind to be at extreme unease without knowing who the girl was and what happened to her and how she is connected in all this, she sets out to find answers on her own, endangeri...

Love at First Fight (2014) 'The army is hard up. It is the number one recruiter in France' 'Number two. The first is McDonald's' IMDb Plot Summary:  Between his friends and the family business, Arnaud's summer looks set to be a peaceful one. Peaceful until he runs into Madeleine, as beautiful as she is brusque, a concrete block of tensed muscles and doomsday prophecies. He expects nothing; she prepares for the worst. He takes things as they come, likes a good laugh. She fights, runs, swims, pushes herself to the limit. Given she hasn't asked him for anything, just how far will he go along with her? It's a love story. Or a story of survival. Or both. This story is about a girl who believes that an apocalypse is on its way and she has to prepare for it, and the way to do that is by joining the hardest military regiment to learn how to survive in the harshest conditions. This story is also about a guy, who has a chance encounter with...

After the Wedding (2006) 'Time is precious. Every acquaintance, every friend, every person who has a place in your heart; it is the time with them that really means something; nothing else matters' IMDb Plot Summary:  A manager of an orphanage in India is sent to Copenhagen, Denmark, where he discovers a life-altering family secret. Mads Mikkelsen (one of my all time favourite actors) plays a Dannish social worker, Jacob, who lives in a slum in Mumbai India taking care of poor orphaned children at an orphanage he started. He has been taking care of hundreds of poor orphaned children, especially a kid called Pramod whom he has taken care of since his birth.  The financial resources of his orphanage has depleted and it is close to being shut down when his orphanage is contacted by a wealthy billionaire from Denmark with the condition being that he must personally fly over to Denmark and meet him in person. Jacod thinks its a way for the businessman to flaunt his so...

Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist (2008) 'Are you sad we missed it?' 'We didn't miss it. This is it' IMDb Plot Summary: High school student Nick O'Leary, member of the Queercore band The Jerk Offs, meets college-bound Norah Silverberg when she asks him to be her boyfriend for five minutes. Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist is a refreshing romcom. On top of that, the entire movie is filled with some amazing soundtrack, that just perfectly sets the mood for this movie. Yes, there is nothing so special about this movie that makes it so different form the tons of other romcom out there, but this movie is sure to leave you happy and with a smile on your face. And then there's the fact that this movie stars the adorable Michael Cera...what else do you need, eh? An IMDb 7/10 . Ref:  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0981227/