Scribbles and Ramblings

Aristotle’s Plot (1996, France/UK/Zimbabwe, Jean-Pierre Bekolo) At its core, Jean-Pierre Bekolo’s Aristotle’s Plot is about that vita...

A trio of books that outline the past, present and possible future. Two fiction, one non-fiction. Perhaps, in the future, all will be co...

Similar to 2016, global cinema in 2017 kept pace with current events and created works that reflected society. There were multiple films re...

The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017, UK/Ireland/USA, Yorgos Lanthimos) There was constant murmur and whispers at many of the...

Blade Runner 2049 (2017, Denis Villeneuve ) Few quick thoughts. 1. Similar to SICARIO, the landscape shots in Villeneuve's film ar...

MOTHER! (2017,   Darren Aronofsky) I looked at my watch and counted down the seconds because I knew what was ...

Baby Driver (2017,  Edgar Wright) Black Shades. Music. Fast cars. Heist. Cool gangsters. Smooth talkers. Attitude. More music. Extremely ...

Doctor Strange (2016,  Scott Derrickson )   An arrogant rich man lives selfishly and feels he is invincible. One day, his ...

Dunkirk (70 mm, of course): deserted town. No civilians. Just soldiers. Why? Because a war is being fought. Money and resources poured in...

For the most part, it was a lackluster European season. There were limited moments of beautiful fluid football provided by players of Monac...

History has shown that many dictators followed a similar pattern regardless of which country they lived in. The dictators were once seen re...

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...