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🍿 Dhadak 2 (2025) – ★★★★☆
Calling a sequel to original dhadak was such a crime. This is a very gritty coming of age story of a dalit man and a privileged woman. Much parallels to today’s times as well. And yes this dark side of India does exist. Highly recommended even though dark and grim.
📺 The Ba***ds of Bollywood (2025) – ★★★☆☆
The first five episodes were good, and the mindless absurd humor meets the mark. The numerous cameos work wonderfully well (seriously is there any Bollywood actor who did not have a cameo in this series?), and the meta references on everything and everyone Bollywood often land, because they are not over explained. Then the series becomes a mess in the last two episodes with a twist that just doesn’t land. Still, I feel like there is a good director in Aryan who really felt he had to prove he could direct any genre. Maybe next time stick to a couple. That said, absolutely fab acting by Karan Johar playing himself, and how good was Arshad Warsi in a hardly 10 minute role but lands it so well that every other cameo looks sub par.
Why do the icon sizing look so weird on IOS26? I am sure they are all the same size but the Liquid Glass treatment creates a weird optical illusion making some icons for some apps feel like it’s stretched out in bottom. It feels like visual metaphor they were going for is looking down physically. Just doesn’t seem to work – I can see how it could work for a VR device but on the phone it looks off Ux wise. So unlike Apple this!
I don’t give a flying fuck what happens to James Comey. The dude single handedly pushed the country over a tipping point. If not for his antics there was a good chance Hillary wound have pulled it off and we would be in a different timeline. Rot in Hell motherfucker.
LOL, wake me up when people take the China K visa seriously. I don’t think China gets it that it’s not just the visa that makes H1b attractive, it’s the whole notion of living in America that makes it more attractive. You don’t just create a new visa category hoping that folks will come there instead of USA. Unfortunately, the current government knows this all too well and are using this as a leverage to do whatever the fuck they want.
The FIFA Tickets are going to be such a shit show aint it? between the hospitality tickets and various ticket packages held by all sponsors etc, the actual number of tickets that public can actually buy is going to be minuscule. Just invite the rich and famous no for all these games and be done?
All these western countries now recognizing Palestine state after all these years of genocide and war – wouldn’t it have been nice if you had maybe a decade or more ago? What’s the point now after all of Palestine has been effectively demolished. Whose brownie points are you after?
Started watching The Ba***ds of Bollywood over the weekend directed by Aryan Khan. Cant help feeling he really wanted it to be The Studio of Bollywood. The first episode was fine nothing great but I am willing to see through a few episodes to see if it actually makes a good Studio kinda show in India.
The election season is coming up in Virginia and you can already see the white moms of fairfax county starting to emerge from their hibernation mode questioning everything that school is teaching their precious white kids, having a problem with everything teachers or fcps is doing and generally riling up Facebook groups or forums around here. Classic liberty moms moves just in time for election.
🍿 Don’t Look Up (2021) – ★★★★☆
I remember starting this movie when it came out and not getting past 15-20 minutes coz it was so absurd. 4 years down the line the political and societal decline has been so bad that this totally absurd comedy feels very realistic now! Like if a comet were to actually show up, the United States government and its people would exactly behave the way they showed in this movie, to the T. So yeah a hilarious watch!