Scribbles and Ramblings

I am absolutely shocked by the sudden death of Rituparno Ghosh , one of the best contemporary Indian directors, who passed away at the youn...

This past April marked the 10th anniversary of the Calgary Underground Film Festival (CUFF) and the festival celebrated it by having the s...

With the exception of Ghost Rider , the remaining three films of Mark Neveldine & Brian Taylor are perfect examples of Video Game Cinem...

“Video Game Cinema” doesn’t only refer to movies based on video games but instead applies to movies which are constructed and edited like a...

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...