Scribbles and Ramblings

Beijing Bicycle (2001 film directed by Xiaoshuai Wang): Rating 10/10 Emotional and beautiful cinema at its best! This is a movie which grab...

A blistering mad dash through a diverse assortment of films within a week proved that despite the festival season being over, I still can’t ...

The Fifth Horseman is Fear: (1964 film directed by Zbynek Brynych) A different side of the Jewish persecution in Eastern Europe is shown her...

What is art for one is junk for another and what is junk for one is sublime art for another! Movies keep affirming the fact that there are i...

Attending VIFF even for 3 days was a great treat! I have to honestly admit that VIFF is the best film festival in Canada! Period!! No questi...

10 days of CIFF have just wrapped up. An exhausting 10 days where I managed to squeeze in 22 movies! Now I have a few days to rest before I...

The idea of pitting different movies from a country/region against each other was quite enjoyable so here’s a second and final installment f...

I am tired of people saying that there are no good movies being made currently and that the best cinema was back in the 50’s & 60’s. Ok,...

A month has gone by. Amazing how time flies by! In the end, soccer and movies turned out to be a great combination. Even though the 2006 W...

The Soccer World Cup is finally coming to life -- France beat Brazil (yeah, Henry is better than Ronaldinho anyday!!), and now Italy edged ...

8 more matches to go before the winner is decided! There were some very interesting match-ups in the movie world cup quarters and one matc...

In keeping with the format laid out by the Soccer World Cup, 16 teams competed in a knock-out format in the second round of the Movie World...

The first round of both the FIFA World Cup and Movie World Cup have been completed. Here are the final results and comparisons of both (Not...