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

Had I remembered that this was set around Christmas, I would have waited until late July if not December. As it was, I knew only that it was...

I may not see any more movies directed by Preston Sturges , but writing is another matter. I had seen this title many times, perhaps especia...

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...

No, this has nothing to do with the 2010s TV series. This is an Akira Kurosawa film from the same year as Rashômon , which would explain why...

This was the first sequel ever to get an Academy Best Picture nod, but I hadn't known that going in. Bing Crosby as a priest in a Leo Mc...

Why did I wait this long to see an old holiday classic? Mainly because I assumed that it was a remake of Holiday Inn , which I had already s...

Wow, a brand new Christmas movie in the IMDb top 250. Has that ever happened before? And how long can we expect it to stay up there? There s...

One summary I've seen of why DC Comics movies haven't done as consistently well as the Marvel Cinematic Universe is that they aren...

Wow, the latest Best Picture didn't even make the upper half of my family's expectations. Sure, it ranks high on IMDb, but based on ...

For the first time in ages, my family couldn't go to a theater together on Christmas. I wound up watching this DVD alone, partly from la...

Nuts. I try to save movies set on or near Christmas for December, or at least July, but I hadn't checked the full description. Oh well, ...

I can safely say that this is the first film I ever watched at the advice of a homeless person (who reviewed several holiday movies in a cha...

By now some of you may be thinking, "What's with all the 2012 animations on this blog?" I couldn't tell you. I moved this ...