Scribbles and Ramblings

Waste Land (2010, Brazil/UK, Lucy Walker) Beauty is in the eye of the beholder That beauty can be a woman or a stunning painting. Or i...

Men packed in a room. They shake hands, wink at each other and drop their ballots in the box. Everyone knows the ballots will go towards t...

Arrival City: The final migration and our next world by Doug Saunders The word slum or favela comes with a preconceived notion of overcro...

Monday evenings are hardly known for soccer stories but today is a Monday that will go down in soccer history. Everywhere, almost every soc...

I have nothing against Real Madrid football club but their current manager Jose Mourinho is another matter altogether. His arrogance knows n...

As expected, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Part One) dominated the past week's global box office . Harry Potter was the #1 fi...

In Richard Porton's TIFF piece, Reginald Harkema provides a key summary: ...Politics are of course (as with everything) a huge part o...

The wonderful Argentine film The Ways of Wine is playing for free on mubi.com, until tomorrow Nov 21. The film is a self-discovery jou...

This weekend the new Harry Potter movie will clearly dominate most of the global box office ticket sales. There are more than 4000 theaters...

An updated summary of the books and films selected for the 2011 Copa America Spotlight in lieu of the recently made draw for the South Amer...

After I encountered Jules Dassin’s magnificent heist film Rififi a few years ago, I was puzzled as to why I had not heard about him previo...

So do you want to see the new Olivier Assayas film Carlos ? Do you live in Toronto or Vancouver? If your answer is no, then you are not ...

Every cinephile crosses paths with a Godard film sooner rather than later in their cinematic journey. The only difference is that some follo...

Denis Villeneuve's Incendies has completed an amazing hat-trick of best film awards on the film festival circuit. After winning best C...

The only requirement for a spotlight on recent Chinese cinema was that the selections should be mostly documentaries. With that in mind, I p...