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 […]
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, […]
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. […]
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 […]
MAMI 2019 – Roger Egger’s ‘The Lighthouse’ Review
Robert Eggers new film wowed audiences at Cannes and TIFF, the nightmarish black and white cinematography calling to mind the great films of the German Expressionistic period. Dread fills every […]
Women In Scorsese Films – A Cinemawala Opinion
So yes, this got under my skin today! Seems the Marvel groupies and purists are lashing out at Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola for saying what many of us […]
Bala (2019) – Official Trailer
Bala (2019) | Official Trailer | Ayushmaan Khurrana | Bhumi Pednekar | Yami Gautam | Saurabh Shukla | Seema Pahwa | Javed Jaffery | Abhishek Banerjee | Amar Kaushik | […]
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