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

As I've said, movies about real-life British royalty have a good track record with me. This one is by the same director (Charles Jarrott...

It was high time I saw one of the latest nominees for Best Picture. OK, I saw this the day before they were announced, but the hype suggeste...

It had been a while since I last saw a movie with an overture and an entr'acte. This one has the courtesy to change the stills during th...

I said before that I couldn't really characterize William Wyler's directorial style. Now I must be getting the hang of it, because a...

In the interest of narrowing my many choices, I usually avoid movies with IMDb overall ratings less than 7, barring unusual circumstances li...

Wow, Christopher Nolan writes, directs, and co-produces the depiction of a real event for a change. Well, to a point. The individual charact...

I had put this film off, because it runs 162 minutes. How serendipitous that I should get around to it on Memorial Day weekend. The title...

After watching, I thought I should have saved this for Friday. Further research told me that Cinco de Mayo commemorates an event nearly 50 y...

Having declined in religiosity, I don't watch film adaptations of Christian legends/books as much as I used to. But a good swords-and-sa...

Even after  getting burned by Lynch's Dune , I make a point to watch adaptations from famous novels I'm unlikely to read. Oh, I do r...

This may be the longest movie I've seen since I started this blog. Running nearly 3.5 hours with no overture or intermission, it feels l...

I've long known Akira Kurosawa to take inspiration from westerns and Shakespeare plays for his samurai epics. But while I'd seen som...