Scribbles and Ramblings

Another end of the year list put together from scribbled notes written a decade ago. A quick glance at my 2003 viewing notes confirmed that...

2012 was a really good year in Canadian cinema as demonstrated by the titles below but also by a few that narrowly failed to make the list ...

I started publishing my end of the year list from 2005 onwards but I compiled a list for 2004, which I am now putting up in order to gather...

It goes without saying that an end of the year list depends on access to quality films from around the world. And my access to those qualit...

There have been many worthy films in 2012 but also many more fine performances and great visuals. So I created a separate entry just to hig...

The Master (2012, USA, Paul Thomas Anderson) "Nothing frightens those in authority so much as criticism. Whether democrats or ...

I expected a slow down in film viewing this year and was certain I would finally drop below 300 films per year. It turns out that I ended ...

Back in the summer, Wonders in the Dark invited people to be part of a comedy countdown. The rules required voters to send a ballot of the...

Sleeping Sickness (2011, Germany co-production, Ulrich Köhler) Ulrich Köhler's film was my first choice for a German film entry...

My piece on Preston Sturges' perfect comedy The Lady Eve is published on Wonders in the Dark's comedy countdown .

Anand Gandhi's debut feature Ship of Theseus has been getting some stunning reviews since its world premier at TIFF a few months ago. ...

The Third Annual Calgary Latin Wave Film Festival ran from Nov 2 - 4, 2012 and featured an excellent line-up of films. The following nine ...

The 13th Annual Calgary International Film Festival featured a mouth watering line-up of films from all corners of the world and excelled ...

My review of Luis Buñuel’s L'Age D'or is published on Wonders in the Dark as part of their Top 100 Comedy Countdown.

The Calgary International Film Festival kicks off today, Sept 20, with the much anticipated opening gala of Deepa Mehta’s Midnight’s Child...