Brother of the Year (2018)

Director: Witthaya Thongyooyong (as Vithaya Thongyuyong)
Stars: Sunny Suwanmethanont, Urassaya Sperbund, Nichkhu

Jane lives with her brother Chut with her being the only one doing everything around the house. But Chut will need to learn to take care of himself when Jane is about to get married and move to Japan.

★★☆☆☆

I feel scammed after seeing this. It was packaged as a comedy in its trailer, but no, it is a long, dragging drama about siblings, with a mediocre older brothers’ (somehow irrational) issues toward his smart and achiever little sister. Even Nickhun is not enough as a saving grace.

Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)

Director: Bryan Singer
Stars: Rami Malek, Lucy Boynton, Gwilym Lee, Ben Hardy, Joseph Mazzello

The story of the legendary rock band Queen and lead singer Freddie Mercury, leading up to their famous performance at Live Aid (1985).

★★★✮☆

Ocean Waves (1993)

Director: Tomomi Mochizuki
Writers: Saeko Himuro (novel), Keiko Niwa (screenplay) (as Kaori Nakamura

As a young man returns home after his first year away at college he recalls his senior year of high school and the iron-willed, big city girl that turned his world upside down.

★★★☆☆

Say Anything… (1989)

Director/Writer: Cameron Crowe
Stars: John Cusack, Ione Skye, John Mahoney

A noble underachiever and a beautiful valedictorian fall in love the summer before she goes off to college.

★★★✮☆

Padmaavat (2018)

Director: Sanjay Leela Bhansali
Stars: Deepika Padukone, Ranveer Singh, Shahid Kapoor

Set in medieval Rajasthan, Queen Padmavati is married to a noble king and they live in a prosperous fortress with their subjects until an ambitious Sultan hears of Padmavati’s beauty and forms an obsessive love for the Queen of Mewar.

★★★✮☆

A feast for the eyes!