The Offbeat Critic

 Where to Watch: Amazon Prime "Fernando" is a five-episode series that follows racing driver Fernando Alonso taking part in  2019: 24 Hours of Daytona 2 018-19 FIA World Endurance Championship  (which also includes the 24 Hours at Le Mans ) 2019 Indianapolis 500  and the 2020 Dakar Rally This is the third documentary I have seen that has Fernando Alonso. The first being " Grand Prix Driver ", an Amazon series that released in 2018 when he was racing with " McLaren " in Formula 1 alongside Stoffel Vandoorne . The second series was Netflix's " Drive to Survive: Season 1 " that covered the 2018 F1 calendar. Alonso and his team McLaren were also part of the mix. This is the first series with Alonso in focus. The series starts with covering his childhood and then the aforementioned races in a chronological manner. Now, Alonso is after the triple crown that means winning the " Monaco Grand Prix "; " 24 Hours of Le Mans " and ...

Where to Watch: Amazon Prime [Spoilers ahead if you haven't seen the first season] Leeds United - a footballing side that last played in the Premier League in the 2003-04 season. They were relegated to the Championship (second tier of English Football) that season. In 2006-07 they were again relegated to League One (third tier in English Football). After two years of narrowly missing qualification back to the second tier, Leeds finally secured automatic promotion in 2009-10 where they finished as Runners-Up. Since 2010-11 Leeds have stayed in the second tier, neither getting promoted nor relegated. The first season of this documentary series covered the 2018-19 season of Leeds United under new Coach Marcelo Bielsa. It was a six-episode documentary with the last three episodes focussing on their promotion push. Leeds come agonizingly close to the automatic promotion spots but finish third. This meant they had to play the dreaded "play-offs". They lost 3-4 to Derby County o...

Where to Watch: Netflix " Lost Bullet " is a French action movie that was released on Netflix in June this year. Mentioning anything more than Netflix's summary would be giving away spoilers. That is how clichéd "Lost Bullet" is.  If I was to shift my focus to other French action movies I have seen, the first ones that come to my mind are " District 13 " and its sequel " District 13: Ultimatum "; and " Nuit Blanche ". There are other movies which may not be in the French language but have either a French Director or Production Company. The " Taken Franchise " consisting of three movies, the " Transporter Franchise " consisting of three movies , I beg your pardon they made four movies. A fourth one (which I am unaware of) was released in 2015 with the previous trilogy lead  Jason Statham  being replaced by  Ed Skrein .  Movies of the "Transporter" and "Taken" Franchise used a lot of " shak...

Where to watch: Amazon Prime Video This series covers the 2019-20 season of the English Premier League club "Tottenham Hotspur". Tottenham finished as runners-up in the 2018-19 UEFA Champions League losing 0-2 to fellow Premier League side Liverpool. This 9 episode series was released in 3 parts, the first three came out on the 31st of August, the next three episodes a week later, and the last three yet another week later on the 14th of September. It starts with flashbacks of the previous year's dream run in the Champions League. Later, the focus shifts to the current season which is not the best of starts. It shows Tottenham coach "Mauricio Pochettino" attending press conferences with reporters asking him tough questions. The mood is gloomy and by the 22nd-minute into the first episode, Pochettino is sacked and is replaced by José Mourinho. Now, José Mourinho's track record has been phenomenal, winning many trophies with the teams he has coached. Tottenham...

Where to Watch: You can rent this movie in HD for ₹120 or buy it in HD for ₹590 either on "Google Play Movies & TV" or on "YouTube". Having seen "Contagion" just a day before, I decided to watch another movie that became popular early this year. This movie is directed by "Wolfgang Petersen" and is my third movie of his after "In the Line of Fire (1993)" and "Air Force One (1997)". Both of those movies were low on substance and this one is no different. This film follows a virus called "Motaba" and its outbreak in erstwhile Zaire (Now the Democratic Republic of Congo), and how it makes its way to a fictional town called "Cedar Creek" in the United States. This movie is plain ludicrous, with funny dialogues thrown in when something serious is going on and a lot of the scenes are "over the top". While there a few instances in this movie that create some tension, that quickly goes away when these ...

Where to Watch: Netflix  Alternatively, you can rent this movie in HD for ₹120 or buy it in HD for ₹590 either on "Google Play Movies & TV" or on "YouTube". TED is a non-profit organization where people from around the globe deliver thought-provoking ideas. All you have to do is to go to YouTube and watch it for free. One video that became very popular early this year was a TED video of Bill Gates titled "The next outbreak? We’re not ready". In that video, there is a mention of a movie called ''Contagion'' featuring a stellar cast. Contagion is directed by Steven Soderbergh. The movie starts by showing a female character who had gone to Hong Kong for a business trip return back to Minneapolis. Later she has a seizure and eventually dies while at the hospital of unknown causes. Now whatever happens later in this movie has an uncanny resemblance to how "COVID-19" is wreaking havoc. There is a mention in the movie that ''...