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Indian Express
09-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Indian Express
Shadow Force movie review: Kerry Washington, Omar Sy-starrer is a run-of-the-mill affair
Shadow Force movie review: Mark Strong has spent a career at the movies playing slick bad guys in some form or another. Rarely has he been called upon to do more – including getting shot again and again, only to get up and do it one more time. That's only part of the miracle about his villainous turn as Jack Cinder. Rarely has anyone coveted a position at G7 so strongly – nor they might again. An ex-CIA chief still proud of his bag of dirty tricks, Cinder goes about correcting everyone who meets him that he is now the 'general secretary' of G7. Apart from one meeting where he puts presumably the head of the United States in his place by calling him an armchair nobody, Cinder doesn't have to put in much office time. Instead, in sharply tailored suits, swilling the choicest whiskeys, Cinder jets about from private mansions in Miami to private islands in Bogota. Enough about him. For as much as Strong is hard to forget – in a bad way – Shadow Force is about Issac (Sy) and Kyrah (Washington). Once Cinder's star recruits in the secretive grey unit he put together called Shadow Force, doing 'God's dirty work' no less, Issac and Kyrah did the unthinkable by falling in love and having a son. Cinder would have none of it, and hence Kyrah and Issac must remain apart and raise Ky (Kamara) in secrecy – till Cinder finds out, of course. The storyline then is Issac, Kyrah and Ky (joined together by love and Lionel Richie) versus Cinder and the rest of his blood-thirsty Shadow Force bunch. The initial scenes between Ky and Issac are moving and promise a movie that would have been, if not interesting, at least not this run-of-the-mill. Sy, a charismatic French actor and the star of the OTT show Lupin, is gentle, mysterious and a pleasure to watch. The fact that he seamlessly slips into French while horsing about with the much-too-unruffled Ky doesn't hurt. Also Read | Bad Boy review: A grittier, more gruesome companion piece to Adolescence; Netflix's teen drama is a brutal coming-of-age tale In contrast, Washington brings all her pillowy-lipped, dewy-eyed, hangdog demeanour to Kyrah, not really the femme fatale she is going for – that bustier-and-heels look is a call for help. Her and Issac's bickering is a pitiable shot at doing a Mrs and Mrs Smith, which clearly filmmaker Joe Carnaghan too realises, moving quickly away every time they get into friendly ribbing or bickering. Who is Randolph, an Oscar-winning actress, supposed to be playing, and why? There are no easy answers to that. Shadow Force movie director: Joe Carnahan Shadow Force movie cast: Kerry Washington, Omar Sy, Mark Strong, Jahleel Kamara, Da'Vine Joy Randolph Shadow Force movie rating: 1.5 stars
Times
24-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Times
The Times Daily Quiz: Thursday April 24, 2025
1 The Havanese is the only dog breed native to which country? 2 The heroine of Marissa Meyer's 2012 debut novel Cinder is a cyborg version of which fairytale character? 3 The words beef, pork and veal come from the Norman variety of which language? 4 Douglas dark navy, Baird modern and Campbell ancient are types of which Scottish textile design? 5 Which Shakespeare play is named after a Tudor king? 6 Isaac Newton's second law of motion is often stated as F=ma, with 'F' standing for which word? 7 A Modest Proposal (1729) is a satirical essay by which Anglo-Irish writer? 8 In March 2023, Charles III became the first British monarch to address which German parliament? 9 What was the name of Nora
Yahoo
22-03-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
NCAA Tournament - Saturday second round games to watch
Yahoo Sports' Jason Fitz looks at the biggest matchups from the second round of the 2025 NCAA Tournament including high profile battle of polarizing college coaches. View more Saturday is another stacked day of March Madness action. Here's what I'm most excited for for the tournament action for the day. It starts and almost ends with Cal versus Pitino. Sure, we could say it's Arkansas versus Saint John's, but what are we really looking for here? We want villain v. villain, two of the most polarizing to say of politely coaches in basketball history going head to head is what we need in our lives. Saint John's. 2 seed, they should win this game. But you just never know. I just want to see Darth Vader take on Darth Vader like the Spider-Man meme that it's going to be. Now, other things I'm excited for, I'd love to tell you, Drake here. I like it when Cinderella dances, but Drake's about to take on Texas Tech. I have a feeling that Drake, the basketball team is about to be used as badly as Drake the singer is. It's gonna be like taking on Kendrick Lamar. So what other games are good, McNeeese, come on, that's a Cinder. we can get behind McNeeese taking on Purdue. No, don't think that this is Purdue of last year. It is not. Yes, there are 4 seed. Yes, I do believe the Big 10 has been underrated, but McNeee plays this wide open offense. If they shoot as well as they did in the first round, you never know what could happen and we got our pickup. The action everybody's got their eye on. B BYU taking on Wisconsin. This one's interesting to me because nobody. Really believed in BYU in the first round. Everybody seemed to think that VCU would take them down. So now a clunky BYU team takes on a Wisconsin team that frankly, most people thought was overseeded as a 3. Michigan won the Big 10. Wisconsin got the higher seed. Wisconsin's offense disappears sometimes. I'm interested to see which team actually puts it together for a full game. It is going to be a wild slate of Saturday action. Close
