Scribbles and Ramblings

The following are some positive words about tomorrow’s opponents: Who am I kidding? I have nothing positive to say about Arsenal’s neighbour...

It took a while but the 2008/09 European season finally took off this past week. While the financial markets around the world continue to c...

pics from Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul Arsenal visit the Sükrü Saraçoglu Stadium in Istanbul on Tuesday to take on Luis Ara...

The title of Nishikant Kamat's Mumbai Meri Jaan comes from this amazing melodious song sung by Mohammed Rafi & Geeta Dutt: Aye di...

I had been meaning to do a cinematic spotlight on Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden for a while now. I didn't have any prede...

Sometimes the political situation in this country feels straight out of the Eddie Murphy movie, The Distinguished Gentleman , where his char...

Canada heads to the polls today!! Will something change? More importantly, will a majority of the Canadians even bother to exercise their de...

Two films that could describe the current financial mess are Ben Younger's Boiler Room and Sameer Hanchate's Gafla . Emotional melt...

For the last two years I have enjoyed the VIFF trailers shown before all the film screenings. I missed out on VIFF this year but thankfully...

It is a universal human trait to blame one's problems on someone else. But in Friday's Globe and Mail, Marcus Gee took the blame gam...

In these times of financial crisis, we need strong leadership! We need someone to tell us the word. Thankfully, we now know the word! Fami...

The 2008 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded today to Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio . Unfortunately, I have never read anything by him beca...

Imagine a scene 6 years or so ago. A meeting room packed with “important men”. Man #1: War, War, War. Man #2: Oil, Oil, Oil. Man #3: Is this...

By the numbers.. I saw 18 films over 9 days -- I skipped the opening night gala of Blindness and saw no films on Wed, Sept 24. I ended...

The Globe and Mail have put up their 1972 film review of The Godfather . The review was published a day after the film was released and it ...