Scribbles and Ramblings

In a dimly lit pub, an unshaven man quietly sips his drink. He looks up and sees a score of 4-1 flash on the tv. His head sinks down and his...

Miss Bala (2011, Mexico, Gerardo Naranjo) Gerardo Naranjo’s remarkable Miss Bala can perfectly be described by the phrase “wrong place, ...

In Time (2011, USA, Andrew Niccol) Films based on Andrew Niccol's stories have always presented fascinating ideas in an accessible ma...

Agneepath (2012, India, Karan Malhotra) Karan Malhotra’s Agneepath conveys the essence of 1980's Bollywood revenge tales in a techn...

Jacques Tati's last directed work was a football film! Tati directed Forza Bastia , a 26 minute documentary, in 1978 but the film only...

Back in 2010, I absolutely fell in love with Rahat Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan's soulful song Dil To Bachcha Hai Ji from Ishqiya . I didn...

In the past, I had to postpone an African Cup of Nations (CAN) Film spotlight due to the difficulty in tracking down an adequate number of ...

Back in 2006, I held my first soccer film spotlight to compliment the Soccer World Cup. The film spotlight proved a far more rewarding expe...

It is always hard to put together an end of the year list when one does not have reasonable access to films from around the world. In previo...

Sometimes genre filmmakers are easily dismissed by critics and their works remain ignored until some influential film festival programmer or...

We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011, UK/USA, Lynne Ramsay) Early in We Need to Talk About Kevin we see a helpless Eva (Tilda Swinton) tryi...

Innovative Cinema A character is busy doing something but suddenly the character stops what they are doing and looks towards the camera to...

The following three films from Iraqi director Mohamed Al-Daradji all take place in 2003, the pivotal year in which Iraq's history change...