🍿 Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) – ★★★★☆
Entertaining threequel but didn’t have the magic of glass onion in my opinion. that was a better mystery.
Movies
These are the movies we have seen recently.
🍿 Diés Iraé (2025) – ★★★★☆
A rare Indian horror movie that earns its keep. It doesn’t try to do too much, but what it does it does very well. Malayalam movies are on a different level! And how gorgeous was that house half the movie is set in? Just gorgeous modern architecture.
🍿 Homebound (2025) – ★★★★☆
A poignant movie about two halves – of caste and privilege which had similarities with Dhadak 2 – and other half of how the govt failed to come in need of the very people that needed it most during the pandemic. The final act is very moving.
🍿 One Battle After Another (2025) – ★★★★☆
I had some Amazon credits to kill so we rented this movie. Terrific pacing for a nearly 3 hour movie and entertaining but it’s mostly hollow shit. There is no way I would have spent 60+ $ to see this movie in a theater. Even at 10 bucks rental was fairly high. This is a great made for TV movie – I can totally see why it bombed.
🍿 Lokah Chapter 1: Chandra (2025) – ★★★☆☆
First half was great but second half falls off. Could have been so much better than end result. Still, beautiful cinematography and I can’t believe they made the movie in <40 crores. It absolutely doesn’t look like it!
🍿 Frankenstein (2025) – ★★★☆☆
A solid 3.5 star but not more. The tension between Victor and Frankenstein never elevates and gets over sooner than it starts.
🍿 Weapons (2025) – ★★★☆☆
Starts off great but just loses steam completely by end. It wasn’t even scary except for the few initial jolts. Waste of 10$ rental – could have waited until it dropped to 4$.
🍿 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.
🍿 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!