Meenakshi Rao's Bollywood and Hollywood movie reviews

*ing: Rose Byrne, Domhnall Gleeson, Sam Neill, Daisy Ridley, Elizabeth Debicki, Margot Robbie, James Corden Rated: 8/10 The bunnies are here with their becoming animations and colourful carrot-lettuce-tomato landscape drawn diligently by the animators while Peter Rabbit and his clan of three sisters and bro-pal running amok in a farm taken away from them by a grumpy old man who ate up Peter’s father in a rabbit pie years ago. Beatrix Potter’s 19th Century creation, these bunnies in their 2018 avatar are much too raucous, ungainly, in disciplined and creatures of a chaotic world to honour the originals but for the Indian audience, not very familiar with the before of the story, Peter Rabbit is a funny animated movie which may not be a wonder but is no blunder either. The story revolves around a family of bunnies and their love for the girl next door, a village beauty who has a soft corner for wildlife, the bunnies included. The farmhouse is inherited by a stiff upper lip...

Casting:  Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Adam Driver, Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Oscar Isaac, Andy Serkis, Lupita Nyong'o, Domhnall Gleeson, Anthony Daniels Rated:   8/10 Star Wars: The Last Jedi , the eight episode in the series and second in a revived final trilogy, triggered over a million conversations on the social media in the week of its worldwide release. The media buzz notwithstanding, you would wonder how this far, far away galactic world and its inborn fights between the resistance and the Republic, its iconic Jedi connection, its good vs evil, its evil turning more evil, its good turning evil turning good only to turn evil again, is such a fanciful world drawing you in as someone more than just a spectator. Director Rian Johnson is crafty and engaging with his newest outing and gives you so much to contend with that any kind of ennui you would normally expect from an episode so long into the number trail is happily absent. At the same time, however, ther...