Scribbles and Ramblings

Abel Ferrara Spotlight, part II and III Part Two: Sin and Redemption The Addiction (1995): Rating 9/10 This is a very intelligent and...

Director Profile: Abel Ferrara, part I Over the last few months, I have seen Abel Ferrara's name mentioned quite a bit both on film ma...

Spotlight on Brazilian Cinema, part three When I started my spotlight on Brazilian cinema a few months ago, I had a few selected themes th...

"Did you like the movie?" "A bit too serious". "You prefer comedies?" "Not really. But it didn't h...

When I came across my first film by Tsai Ming-liang What Time is it there? , it took me a while to let all the details sink in. It was a bea...

I first heard of Bourne when I was a little kid. My mother was watching the original 1988 movie and I decided to sit and watch a bit. I wa...

Just like one can't judge a book by its cover, one can't (and shouldn't) judge a film by its genre. Ratatouille & Zodiac ...

Can one truly understand a city (or a country for that matter) without ever visiting it? Quite a few writers in the past have written about...

Like most kids my age, I grew up on Transformers. The cartoons provided an endless dose of action and fun with the Autobots transforming and...

Switching gears for a bit to witness themes of love against culture and tradition, voyeurism, affairs, mafia crime & a tale of a boy ge...

I am almost at the end of the Eastern European cinema & soccer spotlight. Plenty of themes have emerged from all the films but for thi...

Like most kids I grew up on cartoons. But as I grew up, my touch with the wonderful world of animation weakened. 1994's Lion King was...

First there was the song. The story came later followed by the film. That in a nutshell is the evolution of Bollywood. Not to be confused...

Spies: The Listening (2006, Italy, Director Giacomo Martelli): Rating 8/10 Shhh...quiet. They are listening? Who? The government ofcourse. ...