Scribbles and Ramblings

Cinema, Aspirins and Vultures (2005, Brazil, Marcelo Gomes) Allan Fish was a pure cinephile who spent countless hours hunting down...

Desierto (2015, Mexico/France,  Jonás Cuarón) Signs Preceding the End of the World , written by Yuri Herrera For the last year, much of t...

The beautiful game. Oh the cliches. The truth is that the game stopped being beautiful long ago. No, I take that back. The televised game ...

Cinema lost a leading voice when Abbas Kiarostami passed away in 2016. Mr. Kiarostami was one of the genuine greats of cinema. Anyone wh...

THE HUMAN SURGE (2016, Eduardo Williams, Argentina/Brazil/Portugal) Eduardo Williams’ stunning debut feature takes us on a remarkable...

HOMO SAPIENS (2016, Nikolaus Geyrhalter, Austria/Switzerland/Germany) In 2006, ruins were a tiny portion of Jia Zhang-ke's STILL...

At times, it was hard to think of films in 2016 given the shifting political winds around the world. Thankfully, global cinema was in step ...

From What is Before (2014) Lav Diaz’s cinema exists on the opposite end of the spectrum to the commercial cinema of rapid cuts and sh...

SHIN GODZILLA (2016, Japan, Hideaki Anno ,  Shinji Higuchi) SHIN GODZILLA is a film of immense beauty and fierce intelligence about cr...

Jindrich Polák’s IKARIE XB 1 (1963) is one of the most significant Science fiction films ever made yet it is also relatively unknown e...

The Calgary International Film Festival’s World Cinema Series provides a snapshot of some of the best contemporary international direc...

Ten months into 2015, I was able to have a better handle on the best films of 2014.  Similarly, almost 8 months into 2016, I have a better...