Scribbles and Ramblings

Compiling a best of the decade list using only top 10 film lists from 2003-12 resulted in omissions from many of the best directors in the...

I have always refrained from assessing whether a particular year had a good cinematic output mostly because a majority of foreign films wer...

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...