
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]