Revisiting The Classics – Roman Polanski’s ‘Chinatown’ (1974)
The old fashioned credits begin and over them we hear solemn music, then a solitary horn, lonely and mournful, foreshadowing what J.J. Gittes (Jack Nicholson) will feel by the end […]
Netflix and Chill: Honey Trehan’s ‘Raat Akeli Hai’ (2020) Review
Have you ever slow cooked any form of food or meat? Slow cooking is the art of culinary, where the food needs to be cooked slowly, at a low to […]
Revisiting The Classics : Mike Nichols’s ‘Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf’ (1966)
There are seven great plays of the 20th century that remain as fresh, as powerful and as urgent as the first day they opened on Broadway. They are ‘Death of […]
Revisiting The Classics : Billy Wilder’s ‘Ace In The Hole’ (1951)
Great films that have failed to find an audience have been around since the silent era, so it is no surprise, that in the fifties, the same event took place […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
TIFF 2019 Exclusive : ‘Motherless Brooklyn’, ‘The Laundromat’ and ‘Uncut Gems’ Reviews
MOTHERLESS BROOKLYN Before this film is released later in the year I suspect it will go through a bit of pruning in the editing room. Overlong, with a couple of […]
TIFF 2019 Day – 1 : ‘Hidden Life’ and ‘The Lighthouse’ Reviews
The day began at eight am, grabbing a coffee and scone at a nearby Second Cup I made my way to the cinema in the massive Scotiabank Theatre. The home […]
Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Once Upon A Time In Hollywood’ (2019) – A John H Foote Review
It has been twenty five years since a young director named Quentin Tarantino exploded onto the movie scene with his astonishing film ‘Pulp Fiction’ (1994) which went on to be […]
Quentin Tarantino’s Greatest Films, Ranked
His very name, like Spielberg or Scorsese, suggests cinema. However, the films of Quentin Tarantino unfold like a jolt of electricity applied to your brain. Like the shot of adrenaline […]
