Scribbles and Ramblings

There was no warning, no advance notice. Jan 24: I was on the internet and my eyes drifted to the tragic headline which told me of Ryszard ...

United 93 (Writer, Director: Paul Greengrass): Rating 9/10 I had avoided seeing this movie until now because I didn’t see a need for making...

Quite a cinematic treat this week with two very different yet compelling films. First up, one of the best films out there…. Children of M...

Writer & Director: Guillermo del Toro Cinematography: Guillermo Navarro I can’t give a rating to this film because I missed the first 5-...

The fast pace of movie watching continues. It seems I am on a rush to make up for the lack of titles seen last December by packing January ...

Babel: Rating 8/10 Director -- Alejandro González Iñárritu. Writer -- Guillermo Arriaga Back in the summer of 2006, I really looked forwa...

District 13 (Director, Pierre Morel): Rating 7/10 Luc Besson is an industry in himself. Over the last two decades, he has been responsible ...

Director, Richard Eyre: Rating 10/10 I knew nothing of this film except that it starred Judi Dench and Cate Blanchett when I got a free pass...

There is something to be said for continuity. A trip to Asia marked the end of 2006 and the final film I saw as the year ended was the Korea...

It was a thoroughly satisfying personal film viewing year. I had more chances to watch festival films than previous years, while at the sam...

So after a year of watching mostly festival movies, it was perhaps appropriate that the year ended with a flux of commercial films and that ...

India, Singapore, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Malaysia and U.A.E (still to visit later today) -- 8 countries, 14 cities, 29 days. No ...

Seven films ended this month’s movie watching. No specific criteria was used to pick the films but just an assorted collection of English a...

Fast-Food Nation (directed by Richard Linklater): Rating 7/10 It is a bad sign when a free advance screening of a movie is not even close to...

Since I have been busy programming movies for other film festivals this year, it was appropriate that my birthday gift was a personal film f...