Meenakshi Rao's Bollywood and Hollywood movie reviews

*ing: Robert Downey Jr, Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, Benedict Cumberbatch, Don Cheadle, Chadwick Boseman, Zoe Saldana, Josh Brolin, Chris Pratt Rated: 9/10 What the Groot! This can’t be happening! This ain’t happening! But then, Que Sera Sera... When two years ago, Captain America: Civil War ripped the superheroes party apart without a premise, the Marvel horizon started looking dark, grim and fatally crisis-driven, panning out to the audience in a shocking manner the fact that even incredible superheroes can be human, vain and divisive. Just when the rude shock of this realisation was somewhat wearing off, in came Avengers: Infinity War. The grimness snowballed into sheer trauma, shock and awe, all put into one. Not that the scale of the canvas was reduced or action lost any impact or the heroes were not there in full attendance to entertain their loyal fans. They were all there and added quantity, almost all of them — from the enigmat...

Cast:  Tom Holland, Michael Keaton, Jon Favreau, Zendaya, Donald Glover, Tyne Daly, Marisa Tomei, Robert Downey Jr. Rated : 8/10 For now, he has refused the seat and the suit to be part of future Avenger missions and, in that sense, it is the true homecoming of this radioactive good boy who has been fighting his callowness and schoolchild impatience to be part of something big, like Iron Man and Captain America. Not that this makes the film bereft of action — there’s plenty of those dizzying shots of tall towers in New York by the night being surmounted by our beloved web swinging hero Spidey. Yes, in this one, he is not Toby Maguire. Neither is he Andrew Garfiled. But, as Tom Holland, he is the same old Peter Parker with the same old becomingness, the same old aspirational youth quotient and the same old “I am there to clean up the world” mission. Only, after being dropped home by Iron Man after the Civil War mission, with a promise that an Avengers call will come hi...