Scribbles and Ramblings

I am not one for making best of the year movie lists. One can't really compare different kinds of movies which cover different genres an...

It was yet another dismal year regarding Bollywood movies. The quality seems to be getting worse and worse. The one thing which stood out mo...

Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War (written & directed by Je-gyu Kang): Rating 6.5/10 Running at 140 minutes, this one is an epic. Unfo...

Directed by Steven Spielberg: Rating – sliding scale Oh my God, what a great movie! Another masterpiece! Blah Blah…whenever a Spielberg movi...

Tons of movies to go through this time around! A few of the selections came from two Peter Biskind books – Down and Dirty Pictures and Easy...

With a tall order of locations, this week’s viewing provided a good range of movies. End result: a mixed bag of likes and dislikes. Syriana...

Good Night, and Good Luck (Directed by George Clooney): Rating 10/10 Fade to white. Cue microphone. The cigarette is lit. A puff of white ...

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...