Ishaan Uwach

  Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018) Director: Ron Howard Producers: Kathleen Kennedy, Simon Emanuel, Allison Shearmur Cast: Alden Ehrenreich (Han Solo), Email Clarke (Qi’ra), Donald Glover (Lando Calrissian) Paul Bettany (Dryden Vos) An epic Star Wars heist movie, Solo: A Star Wars Story is epic! 13 years before the empire, young Han is trying to escape life on the streets on his planet of Corellia, with his childhood crush Qi’ra. While at the spaceport (place where spaceships land and take off, like an airport) Han unsuccessfully bribes the customs officer with refined coaxium, very expensive fuel for spacecraft. Han gets stuck past the customs, where he sees an Imperial ad, which beckons him to join the Galactic Empire as a pilot. 3 years later, Han Solo is on a mud-covered planet called Mimban, where he deserts to work for a crime syndicate called the Crimson Dawn, after helping a Wookie prisoner named Chewbacca escape captivity. He is sent on a mission to a mountainous...

Director: Jayprasad Desai Producers: Shital Bhatia, Sudip Tewari. Cast: Shreyas Talpade (Pravin Tambe), Parambrata Chatterjee (Rajat Sanyal), Ashish Vidyarthi (Vidya Paradkar) Nitin Rao (Abey Kuruvilla). AMAZING! A cricket movie almost always catches my fancies. Pravin Tambe is man who aspires to be in the Ranji Trophy, but in the selection phase, even though he plays well, he is rejected for being too old, and later, he is berated by his wife for being too cricket-minded. The year is 1984. Pravin, a 12 year old boy attempts to watch a Ranji cricket match, but is stopped by a guard. Pravin replies to the guard, that when he enters the Ranji, the guard will bow to Pravin. In the area that Pravin lives in, Pravin and his friends play cricket every day, and also break a lot of windows in that process. The year is 1986. Pravin and his band of friends go for Ranji qualification. Sadly, they don’t qualify. Later, Pravin has to go for a job interview, but bunks it to go and play an inter-comp...

  Director: Chris Columbus Producers: John Hughes, Mark Radcliffe, Duncan Henderson. Cast: Macaulay Culkin (Kevin McCallister), Joe Pesci (Harry Lime), Danie Stern (Marv Murchins). SPECTACULAR! One of the sequels that are as good as the original. It’s a normal Christmas Eve at Kevin McCallister’s house. Everyone is super hyped and excited and packing for their trip the next day. Kevin takes his raincoat from the bathroom, while his uncle is bathing. Kevin, with his new tape recorder, record his uncle singing in the bath. Kevin also messes up and gets sent to the attic as a punishment, but his mom remembers the events of last year and revokes the punishment. The next day, Kevin and his family reach O’Hare International (in Chicago), but Kevin lags behind and accidentally boards a flight to New York while all of his family is on a flight to Miami. Later, Kevin books a room in the fanciest hotel in New York, the Plaza Hotel, with his father’s credit card. Harry and Marv, howev...

  Director: Ang Lee Producers: Gill Netter, Ang Lee, David Womark Cast: Irrfan Khan, Suraj Sharma (Piscine Molitor Patel i.e., Pi Patel), Rafe Spall (Yann Martel). This movie based on the eponymous book by Yann Martel is terrific. An older gentleman named Pi Patel starts telling his story to a Canadian author.                                          Piscine Molitor Patel is a young boy who was named after a swimming pool in Paris that his ‘mamaji’ swam in and called the best pool he ever ‘collected’, which meant the best pool amongst all the pools that he had swam. His father owned a zoo in the botanical gardens and his mother worked as a botanist there. At school, he was teased and jeered at for his name, which sounded like pi****g. He had to endure continuous teasing becau...

Director: Robert Wise Producers: Robert Wise, Peter Levathes, Saul Chaplin Cast: Julie Andrews (Maria von Trapp) Christopher Plummer (Georg von Trapp), Eleanor Parker (The Baroness). A really happy movie. I really think that this is the best. Go to the review. Maria is a free-spirited young woman who is training to become a nun at an abbey in Salzburg, Austria. One day, her lack of discipline finally gets the better of her and it reaches a point where nobody wants her there except for the Mother Abbess. She decides that Marie should live outside the abbey and sends her as a governess for the seven children of naval officer Captain Georg von Trapp. The Captain insists on strict military discipline, of which Maria does not approve. Although the children misbehave at first, Maria responds with kindness and patience and gets all the children to love her as a friend. The next day the Captain leaves for Vienna to visit Baroness Elsa Schraeder and ‘Uncle’ Max Detweiler. With that, Mar...

  Director: Chris Columbus Producers: John Hughes, Mark Levinson, Tarquin Gotch. Cast: Macaulay Culkin (Kevin) Daniel Stern (Marv) Joe Pesci (Harry). A movie that’s boring-at-the-start-but-gets-good-at-the-end, Home alone is… a sort of a blast. One day, in the holiday season, Eight-year-old Kevin McCallister gets a horrible scolding before the day he along with his family has to go to Paris, and gets locked up in the attic as a punishment. He at night secretly wishes that he had no family, since his siblings always make his life a living nightmare. The next day, his parents sleep in and rush to go to the airport. One of Kevin’s sister miscounts in a head count and drive off without him. An hour later, Kevin wakes up and finds none of his family is there. He first thinks that his wish has comes true, and runs around his house to celebrate. But later, he discovers that he has to protect his house from a pair of burglars alone. Want to know more? Watch the movie! I got bored...

  Director: David Bowers Producers: Nina Jacobson, Bradford Simpson. Cast: Zachary Gordon (Greg), Devon Bostick (Rodrick), Connor and Owen Fielding (Manny), Steve Zahn (Frank), Rachael Harris (Susan), Robert Capron (Rowley), Peyton List (Holly Hills). The ultimate sequel to the hit book and movie  (Diary of a Wimpy Kid), DOAWK: Rodrick Rules is great! The movie starts with an attempt by Susan to help Rodrick and Greg spend time together   with ‘Mom Bucks’, a type of play money that can be traded for real money. They could obtain Mom Bucks by spending time together . So, the next day, Rodrick drops Greg to school just to obtain Mom Bucks. One day, Greg and Rodrick get grounded after a church scuffle and  are banned from their trip to a water park. When they are at home, Rodrick calls on a party and locks Greg in the basement.   After an hour or two of partying, Rodrick gets a call from Susan. Greg joins in and tells that he is locked in the basement. Th...

Director: Nick Bruno, Troy Quane Producers: Michael J. Travers, Peter Chernin, Jenno Topping. Starring: Will Smith (Lance Sterling), Tom Holland (Walter Beckett), Ben Mendelsohn (Killian). A thrilling adventure against the forces of evil, Spies in Disguise (2019) is a perfect movie for the true thrill seeker. Sometime in the early 2000’s, local brainy kid Walter Beckett is working on a contraption to help his mom Wendy for self-defence on her police missions.   14 years later, Lance Sterling, an overconfident spy, is fighting off corrupt arms dealer Katsu Kimura, in Japan.   After he reaches their base in Washington D.C, Sterling meets up with Walter, who now works at a gadget designer at the same organization. Lance tells Walter that non-violent ways (ahimsa) is never going to work to defeat supervillains, and fires Walter. However, Lance soon realizes that he’ll need Walter to help him, so he goes to Walter’s place and inadvertently drinks a potion made by Walter whi...

Director: Thor Freudenthal Producers: Nina Jacobson, Bradford Simpson Starring: Zachary Gordon (Gregory ‘Greg’ Heffley), Robert Capron (Rowley Jefferson), Devon Bostick (Rodrick Heffley), Connor and Owen Fielding (Manny Heffley), Rachel Harris (Susan Heffley), Steve Zahn (Frank Heffley). Based on the first book of the hit book series by Jeff Kinney, Diary of a Wimpy Kid is a must watch laugh-riot! The movie starts with Greg giving this narration: “First, let me get something straight: This is a JOURNAL, not a diary. I know what it says on the cover, but when Mom went out to buy this thing, I SPECIFICALLY told her to get one that didn't say "diary" on it. Great. All I need is for some jerk to catch me carrying this book around and get the wrong idea. ” Greg also explains his dream about eventually becoming hugely successful later in life. It is also his first day of middle school. On the first day itself Greg realises the downsides of the school such as the mi...

  Director: Rob Minkoff Producers: Denise Nolan-Cascino, Alexandra Schwartz. Starring: Ty Burrell (Mr. Peabody), Max Charles (Sherman), Ariel Winter (Penny Peterson). Mr. Peabody and Sherman which is the first DreamWorks Animation film I am reviewing is a great time-travel adventure. The movie starts with an opening narration by Mr. Peabody about himself and his adoptive son, Sherman. They explain about the Wavelength Acceleration Bidirectional Asynchronous Controller (WABAC) machine, saying that it is a time machine. It is also Sherman’s first day of school. Sherman gets into a fight with a girl named Penny Peterson, and Sherman bites Penny. Mr. Peabody invites Penny’s parents, Patty and Paul Peterson to set scores. With Sherman and Penny, when Penny asks him about how he was answering every question in class, Sherman accidentally tells Penny about the WABAC, (even though Mr. Peabody had warned Sherman not to tell Penny or the middle would be grounded) and forces Sherman t...

Director:    Tim Hill Producers: Janice Karman, Ross Bagdasarian Jr. Starring:   Matthew Gray Gubler (Simon) Jason Lee (Dave), Justin Long                      (Alvin), Jesse McCartney (Theodore), David Cross (Ian) Based on the TV show created by Ross Bagdasarian Sr., Alvin and the Chipmunks (2007) is a musically fun CGI-live action remake of the timeless TV show. The movie starts with Alvin, Simon and Theodore stuffing acorns in their home tree. Then, when the hole on the tree reaches its maximum extent, Alvin, while stuffing another acorn, falls into the hole and all the acorns fall out. After a while, Alvin falls out and gets stuck in the tree. At the next second, the tree is chopped down for transplant to a tree farm. Meanwhile, an amateur songwriter named David ‘Dave’ Seville is presenting his latest single to a record producer and former college roommate named Ian Hawke. Hawke then replied t...