Best Actors (Male) Of The Year 2019, Ranked.
In a year filled with great achievements in acting, narrowing down ten for each gender was no easy task. When creating this list, I grouped together lead roles with supporting, […]
Best Movies Of The Year 2019, Ranked.
2019 will forever be remembered and celebrated as the year Netflix revolutionized the industry. I begin the top ten in what was an exciting, strong year at the movies. I […]
Sam Mendes’s ‘1917’ Review
Academy Award winner Sam Mendes returns to greatness with his stunning World War One epic, ‘1917’, a breathtaking work that ironically comes to us the same year as the superb […]
Safdie Brother’s ‘Uncut Gems’ (2019) Review
Did I ever think I would discuss Adam Sandler in the same sentence as the Academy Award? Did I ever think I would be comparing Sandler’s jittery, electrifying performance to […]
Revisiting The Classics : Elia Kazan’s ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ (1951)
When Tennessee Williams wrote ‘The Glass Menagerie’, he drew heavily on his own life, his past and the result was the birth of the neorealistic American theatre. ‘A Streetcar Named […]
15 Movies in 2019 That Could’ve Been The Best Of The Year
There were many films/documentaries released in 2019, where each of these, could’ve been the best of the year but ultimately lost out to the deserving winners. We, at The Cinemawala, […]
The Greatest English Language Films of the Last Decade (2010-2019)
No introduction, just the films, which speak for themselves. The films have not been ranked, rather have been arranged in the order they were released. THE SOCIAL NETWORK (2010) An […]
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, […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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