Scribbles and Ramblings

Near the end of month, I came across quite a few Shaw Brothers movies. Yes it was a time to return to those classics which have shaped moder...

Two very different movies turned out to be gems – one a Hollywood summer movie, and the other a small budget Canadian flick. 1) Batman Begin...

The annual Waterton French Film festival had an interesting line up. On tap was Tony Gatlif’s excellent Exiles, Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s A Very ...

1) The Sea Inside (directed by Alejandro Amenabar): Rating 8/10 No matter what movie Amenabar makes in the future, I will duly watch his wor...

Movies and Documentaries: Before I get to the few documentaries I have recently seen, let’s get some of the commercial flicks out of the way...

It has been a while since my last update and I have seen some good flicks in the last few weeks. But I want to get the commercial movies out...

Comic books galore: May started out with watching some overdue comic book movies. 1) Blade 3: Rating 4/10 I really enjoyed the first Blade m...

1) What’s Cooking (2000 movie, directed by Gurindher Chadha): Rating a solid 8/10 Thanksgiving movies are a genre in themselves but this one...

1) Closer (Directed by Mike Nichols, with a brilliant screenplay by Patrick Marber): Rating 9/10 This is a marvelous movie. The beauty of th...

1) Sin City (Directed by Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller). Hmm. On one side are critics calling this the best movie of the year, best comi...

1) Open Water: Rating – Worth a look but overall, ok This Independent movie made a splash last year at Sundance and the critics. It is a sim...

1) Constantine: Rating Very poor Comic book movies are always hard to make. Mostly, they translate into action packed movies which are tras...

1) Japanese Story (Directed by Sue Brooks): This one is hard to judge because it is a movie not made for commercial success. Ofcourse, such...

I am not scared (directed by Gabriele Salvatores, based on the novel by Niccolo Ammaniti): Rating 10/10 This one is brillaint, touchin...

1) Enigma (directed by Michael Apted) -- Rating 8/10 This is a pretty engaging movie about the English-German Cryptography battle during ...