The Oscars 2020 – Oh, The Snubs!
The Academy Awards are just hours away but frankly, it is the most anti-climatic year in recent memory. The big news will be ANY surprises, but given the earlier awards […]
The Oscars 2020 – The Best Films Nominations, Ranked.
There were nine films nominated for the coveted Academy Award for Best Picture this year, though there was room for one more given this silly rule of increasing the nominees […]
The 11 Greatest Films About Divorce, Ranked.
Divorce is a difficult act to go through, punishing, the death of a union, often the passing of a love that was once so intense, the couple could not imagine […]
Netflix And Chill – ‘Ghost Stories’ (2020) Review
Horror. A genre that can be as scary as the premise promises to be. Not only for the viewer watching it but also for the storyteller. History suggests the horror […]
Best Actors (Female) 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 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 […]
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 […]
Netflix and Chill : Olivia Wilde’s ‘Booksmart’ (2019) – A John H Foote Review
Remember Beanie Feldstein from Lady Bird (2017)? She played the best friend alienated by Lady Bird herself, though they manage to reconcile before a valued friendship is lost forever. She is also […]
Netflix and Chill – ‘The Great Hack’ Review
I know a guy in my neighbourhood, who used to be this naive, quiet child. Growing up, he always used to get compared to his younger sibling who was better […]
Netflix and Chill – ‘Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile’ (2019) – A John H Foote Review
I love it when this happens. Remember ‘Norma Rae’ (1979)? Sally Field has been a cute, perky TV star, proving her gifts with her performance in ‘Sybil’ (1977) as a […]
Vasan Bala’s ‘Mard Ko Dard Nahin Hota’ Review
When it won the best film in the Midnight Madness category at TIFF18, #TheCinemawala correspondent John H Foote couldn’t catch it over there, due to some reason. But it had […]
Netflix and Chill – ‘Triple Frontier’ (2019), Explained.
Director J C Chandor’s ‘Triple Frontier’, named after the border area between Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil represents many things, in the guise of a heist film. It tells the story […]
John’s Corner : Something About To Be Lost !
If ‘Roma’ wins Best Picture, the floodgates for films made directly for streaming will open, and suddenly hundreds of films watched on televisions, computers, iPads even cell phones will now compete for the Academy Award.
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