Scribbles and Ramblings

Cup Final (Directed by Eran Riklis): Rating 6.5/10 Ah Football! How it brings different people together! Cohen is all set to attend the 198...

The Beat that My Heart Skipped (Directed by Jacques Audiard): Rating 9/10 The only reason I went to see this movie was because of Romain D...

The Green Butchers (written and directed by Anders Thomas Jensen): Rating 7/10 Dark Comedy. Really dark. The title immediately reminded me ...

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (directed by Garth Jennings): Rating 7/10 I quite enjoyed the 5 original books. So I was bit skeptical ...

3 very different movies and yet all of them tied together by a single thread. I reveal that thread at the end of this posting. So here goes...

Dreams. What are they? Well I can tell you what they are based on what happened last week. Picture this…..soccer, books, movies, music, food...

Two completely different movies but I want to put them together because I believe there is one thread that ties them -- desire and lust. In...

Bin-jip (3-Iron, written and directed by Ki-duk Kim): Rating 9/10 There is a natural beauty to all of Ki-duk Kim’s films be it The Isle, Bad...

2009: Lost Memories (directed by Si-myung Lee): Rating 6.0/10 The movie starts off with a failed assassination attempt in 1909 Harbin, China...

Chocolate (mis-directed by Vivek Agnihotri): Rating Very Bad Everyone stand up and applaud! Yet another new hip director makes his debut by ...

Last Life in the Universe (directed by Pen-Ek Ratanaruang): Let’s get the obvious out of the way – this movie is beautifully shot! But when ...

Ginger and Cinnamon (directed by Daniele Luchetti): Rating 8/10 Normally I am not a big fan of movies which ooze with sugar and syrup. But ...

1) Buddy (directed by Morten Tyldum, written by Lars Gudmestad): Rating 7/10 This 2003 Norwegian movie is a light hearted well meaning film....

Proof (directed by John Madden, based on a play by David Auburn): Rating 7/10 What happens when genius finally fades? A man who has a lot of...

1) Head-On (2004 movie written and directed by Fatih Akin): Rating 9.5/10 A drunk German/Turkish man slams his car into a wall. ...