Revisiting The Classics : Martin Scorsese’s ‘The Last Temptation Of Christ’ (1988)
The first time I screened this film was the second day of its run at the Carlton Cinemas, an Art house theatre in downtown Toronto. Sherri and I braved the […]
Amazon Prime Original – Scott Z Burns’s ‘The Report’ Review
In the day’s, weeks, months and years after 9/11 did the CIA use torture as a means of obtaining information? If ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ (2012) is the least bit accurate, […]
The Greatest Hindi Films Of The Last Decade (2010 – 2019)
In the last decade, the entire landscape of film making has seen an overhaul. The films nowadays, speak differently than what they used to, a few years ago. The modern […]
Elizabeth Bank’s ‘Charlie’s Angels’ (2019) Review
Though I do not place myself into the elitist (snobby) plateau of a film critic who looks down on pure entertainment films, made for the popcorn crowd, I do confess […]
Revisiting The Classics : Martin Scorsese’s ‘Raging Bull’ (1980)
The first time I saw ‘Raging Bull’ (1980), I was with my friend Kevin McDonald who went on to great fame as one of The Kids in the Hall comedy […]
James Mangold’s ‘Ford vs Ferrari’ Review
As a blue-collar family, my father worked for forty-one years in General Motors building cars. He would work two weeks days and two weeks nights until he gained enough seniority […]
Amar Kaushik’s ‘Bala’ Review: Don’t be shy, my honey!
I had a classmate once, who always began the group discussions with the line – ‘See, India is a poor country!’ And we used to get irritated with this line […]
Revisiting The Classics : Martin Scorsese’s ‘Gangs Of New York’
Nominated for ten Academy Awards, ‘Gangs of New York’ was thought to be the film that was finally going to land Martin Scorsese his long-overdue Academy Award for Best Director. […]
‘Ulaganayagan’ Kamal Haasan’s Greatest Films, Ranked
Volatile, controversy-ridden, destiny’s own child – you may call Kamal Haasan any of these but it will remain etched in stone that he is one of the great actors that […]
Amazon Prime Original: ‘Jack Ryan’ – Season 2 Review
Jack Ryan’s back, peeps! The reluctant analyst turned super-spy, created by Tom Clancy, is back to save the world from doomsday, with some superbly shot action sequences that get the […]
Revisiting The Classics : Martin Scorsese’s ‘Taxi Driver’
In 1976, I was aware of Martin Scorsese as a filmmaker having seen Mean Streets (1973) and Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (1974), and certainly a fan of the actor […]
Martin Scorsese’s ‘The Irishman’ Review – I Heard You Paint Houses!
By now it is clear Martin Scorsese is a filmmaking legend who will be remembered long after he has left this life. Scorsese’s films, the best ones, are films for […]
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