This week WhatsOn is back with the top 5 movies and reviews. To make your weekend more delightful and less boring don’t forget to stream those.
Bijoya
Bijoya is a 2019 Bengali film directed by Kaushik Ganguly, produced by Opera Movies, and presented by Suparnokanti Karati. The film starring Abir Chatterjee, and Bangladeshi actress Jaya Ahsan in lead roles and is a sequel to Bishorjan. ‘ Bijoya’ is focusing on a girl named the Padma. An emergency forces the Padma to move to Kolkata with her husband, Ganesh. However, things change after she crosses paths with Nasir Ali.
Black Widow
Director Cate Shortland’s spy thriller is an arousing and surprisingly funny dysfunctional family drama while also an intriguing examination of trauma and abuse. Johansson’s title character is still trying to rectify past sins, though this time she has her old Russian spy family helping. And they’re all gems, from Rachel Weisz’s stoic Melina to David Harbour’s scene-stealing Alexei to Pugh’s Yelena, a snarky young assassin who fans will fall in love with immediately.
Burning
Desire, ravenous and ineffable, shudders through ‘Burning’, from the great South Korean director Lee Chang-dong. The story is about three people. Jong-soo runs into Hae-mi, a girl who once lived in his neighborhood, and she asks him to watch her cat while she’s out of town. When she returns, she introduces him to Ben, a man she met on the trip. Ben proceeds to tell Jong-soo about his hobby.
Raat Akeli hai (The night is lonely)
Raat Akeli Hai is the Hindi language version of ‘The night is lonely’. It’s a 2020 Indian Hindi-language crime thriller drama film directed by Honey Trehan. Nawazuddin Siddiqui starring in the movie is about When a newly married landlord is murdered, a misfit cop’s investigation is complicated by the victim’s secretive family.
How I Became a Superhero
The international action thriller puts an over-the-top comic book spin on a cop drama and ends up halfway successful with that mix. Pio Marmaï stars as a Parisian police detective and former liaison to a French superteam on the case when a mysterious street drug is found to give ordinary people powerful abilities. He reaches out to some old crime-fighting partners to suss out the supplier while also dealing with his own haunting past.
