On a day like today

Yesterday Delhi hit 52.3 degrees Celsius, the highest temperature ever recorded in India. And yesterday I saw Mad Max Furiosa - the origin story. Anya Taylor Joy is Viking and fearsome with a ruthlessness that is a generation above Charlize Theron and her Marine style crew cut purposefulness. The casting is impeccable - Immortan Joe, Praetorian Jack, and the Jack Sparrow vibes Dr Dementus. Furiosa is stolen from the crib, brought up with marauders, hustles her way to being a dogman at the Citadel and finally with the mentorship of Praetorian Jack finds her shot at the Green Place. The Fury Road run is a class apart 

16.5/20

Electric

The Current War - we watched this in the relative intimacy and detail of one of the smaller (Insignia) screens in Imax Inorbit Malad. The small screen brought the brute rivalry of the genius Edison (Benedict Cumberbatch) and the equally determined Westinghouse (Michael Shannon) to focus... None gives the other a quarter in looking at lighting up America and eventually the world. It is AC vs DC, pitches and patronage of investors - the eponymous JP Morgan (Matthew Macfayden) - a narrative that resonates to this day more than most, the alliance with the genius Tesla (Nicholas Hoult). The movie begins with the memorable line "It is 1880 and the world is still lit by fire" - highlighting the sheer extent of the change brought about by the rivals. Perhaps it is great competition that brings out both the worst and the best in our nature

16/20

Furious(a)!!

Furiosa (Charlize Theron) and not Mad Max (Tom Hardy) is the real protagonist of the unmissable franchise-resurrecting Mad Max Fury Road. A relentless action sequence as Max and Furiosa outrun Imperator Joe along Fury Road, in their quest to save Joe’s wives, and a search for the elusive Green Palace from memory.

14/20

Full of Beans

With a few smartly crafted twists and turns, Jack the Giant Slayer is the story of Jack (Nicholas Hoult), a spunky if somewhat distracted farm-boy, his muse the Princess Isabelle (Eleanor Tomlinson), and a few knights of the realm of Cloister – notable among them the honorable Elmont (Ewan Mc Gregor) and the nefarious Roderick (Stanley Tucci). When a small escapade leads Jack to possess certain beans, and his paths cross with that of a princess bent on escaping the confines of her castle, the two embark on an unlikely adventure that faces up to the Kingdom of Giants, the stuff of fables brought to a grim reality. Quite the children’s entertainer, and never a dull moment - mostly

11.5/20