Watched and Learned: My Take on Films from Whenever and Wherever

This film is probably best known as Frank Capra's last, not for reasons of health so much as interpersonal frustration on set and dissat...

Had I realized that the title evoked "Auld Lang Syne," I would have saved this viewing for New Year's. But while the song is p...

Hmm, Bette Davis and George Brent. When did I last see them together? Oh yeah. And before that? Yup. I think they were in a rut, because t...

I realize it hadn't been long since the last movie I saw to include heavy focus on a British royal -- indeed, Queen Elizabeth I in parti...

Having watched a movie about Lillian Hellman and Dashiell Hammett , I might as well watch a movie based on a play by Hellman and adapted by ...

Only after watching did I become aware that another adaptation of the Agatha Christie book is coming out this year. This information does no...

I've seen enough late-'30s and early-'40s dramas about the love lives of class-conscious 19th-century women to conclude that it ...

This film is notable in part for inspiring the name of Barack Obama's mother, Stanley. Many viewers, as well as readers of the original ...

As you see from the year, it's not the Elvis Presley vehicle of the same title. (I doubt I'll ever watch a movie starring Elvis from...

Since my last Bette Davis viewing , I've received several IMDb suggestions for more. I gave priority to one with Academy Award nominatio...

I immediately found this title a little odd, because Bette Davis's face takes up the poster. Indeed, her character of Fanny Trellis/Skef...