A Few Quick Ones

Bohemian Rhapsody: Admittedly stepped into the hall with more than a little skepticism, but was bowled over by the sheer talent of one Freddie Mercury and how the Pakkie found his voice all the way from a highly skeptical Parsi family in London all the way to Live Aid. 15.5/20

Ralph Breaks the Internet: To get to EBay to find a steering wheel and save Candy Race in the Arcade, Ralph and Vannelope undertake a coming of age journey that while cementing their friendship truly shows up the different people that they are. 15/20

The Girl in the Spider's Web: Lisbeth Sallander finds her way through the Russian mafia and an irate NSA to a Bourne style thriller to recover some truly world-saving information. Claire Foy needs to use her full complement of hacking skills as well as physicality. Includes some brutal sibling face-offs too. 14/20

Thuggery

Thugs of Hindostan robs both your wallet and sanity in equal measure. I cannot rate this movie as I left in the interval. It is hard to pinpoint exactly what truly and irredemably dooms the movie - the terrible script, weak cinematography, utterly underdeveloped characters and relationships, a background score that is among the worst one has ever heard. With the dominance of IPTV the bar in terms of quality has irrevocably risen, and this sort of execution will inevitably and swiftly get consigned to the dustbin of history

1/20

Some movies of note

Badhaai ho hindi 15.5/20
Stree hindi 14.5/20
Tumbaad hindi 15/20
First man ... Neil armstrong.. 15.5/20
Bazaar hindi 15/20
Aandhadhun hindi 12.5/20

Winning Stree - k

Stree (Hindi) is a horror comedy with just about everything done right. When its not frightening you, its leaving you in splits. And somewhere it manages to leave a social message as well, without turning into a meaningless mishmash. Well done

15.5/20

Papi

The wonderfully executed true to the novel movie sees Henri Charierre being pushed out from the life of a charmer in Paris straight to the wilderness and horrors of French Guyana. In a ceaseless sequence of horrors, the resilience of one man is tested to the limit and beyond, and eventually one insight far in the future allows for a gateway to final freedom. Maybe Papillon is about never giving up. Maybe its just a story where the protagonist could have simply died of he treated life with some insouciance. A midt watch

15.5/20