Scribbles and Ramblings

In the last few years, articles about the excellence of TV shows have become quite common as have the number of people who watch entire sea...

In early 2012, Sam Juliano’s excellent round-up of William A. Wellman’s films was an eye opener as it highlighted the need to visit Wellma...

Cue music. The camera moves slowly from the muddy ground to the tension packed air above. Two men stand on opposite sides, facing each othe...

Neighbouring Sounds ( O som ao redor ) (2012, Brazil, Kleber Mendonça Filho) This IS a film. Aided by a rich sound design & visu...

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...