Scribbles and Ramblings

Just like That (2019, India,  Kislay) The mother is a revered character in Indian cinema and society (‘Mother India’), someone who is selfle...

Fantasia 2021 runs from Aug 5 - 25th in a hybrid format. Unlike last year’s virtual edition, this year’s edition is showing films in cinema...

Bungalow (2002) Sleeping Sickness (2011) In My Room (2018) Unlike previously, I started in the middle. The first Ulrich Köhler feature I saw...

Messi's Copa América win.  Buda Mendes/Getty Images It was a tournament that felt unnecessary. It was the 4th Copa América in just 6 yea...

Taming the Garden (2021, Georgia/Switzerland, Salomé Jashi) “A picture is worth a thousand words”.   In this case, the picture left me speec...

Genus Pan (2020, Philippines, Lav Diaz) Genus Pan , Courtesy of Sine Olivia Pilipinas As with any Lav Diaz film, the running time is often m...

About Endlessness (2019, Swedish co-production) 10 years ago, I laughed in delight while watching Roy Andersson’s double-bill of Songs from ...

Coincoin and the Extra-Humans (2018, 4 episode TV Mini-series) For a change, I started at the beginning. I was fortunate enough to witness B...

The swift unraveling of the European Super League doesn’t mean that things will become better in the Champions League. It still appears that...

EFE   Back on October 11 2020, I predicted the following for the 2020/2021 season: "In Spain, either Real Madrid or Barcelona will win ...

 Take the Ball, Pass the Ball (2018, Spain, Duncan McMath)   Based on Graham Hunter’s book, Barça: The Making of the Greatest Team in the Wo...