Scribbles and Ramblings

Like most friends, I saw the first Universal Soldier (1992) and ignored all subsequent sequels, including the official ones (three af...

Some quick notes on all four of Lisandro Alonso’s features. La Libertad (2001) Los Muertos (2004) Fantasma (2006) Liverpool (2008...

It is easy to label Paul Verhoeven’s films as a cinema of excessive sex, blood and violence. However, these tags just refer to the surface ...

Nacer Khemir’s Desert Trilogy : W anderers of the Desert (1986) The Dove’s Lost Necklace (1992) Bab’Aziz: The Prince Who Contemp...

A few years ago, Verena Paravel and J.P. Sniadecki’s Foreign Parts got some critical love and was a must-see film. The documentary’s setti...

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...