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

Squeezing in one last Halloween review for the year! I opted for something under 90 minutes, clearly appropriate in theme but not seriously ...

Of the scary Netflix movies recommended to me that I hadn't seen, this was one of the most highly rated. I opted not to save it for the ...

I chose this partly for being relatively popular and partly because Netflix will drop it at the end of the month. Aside from that, all I kne...

Of all the horrors on Netflix I hadn't seen, this was the one I'd heard about the most. Partly, I suppose, because it's relative...

I don't remember learning about this South Korean TV movie before. Most likely, it was on an online list of great horrors. In any case, ...

I had not heard of this Disney+ special or even the Marvel antihero of the same name until I perused the Halloween section of Disney+. Among...

This was the first Halloweeny title I found on my Netflix list. It also happened to be leaving Netflix today. Sorry if you wanted to see it ...

I was a casual fan of the 1988 original, having regularly viewed the tamer TV adaptation before that. When I felt like going to a theater ag...

This isn't the first time I've watched a two-part Batman animated direct-to-DVD movie for my October set at a friend's suggest...

Another Monkeypaw Production already . I didn't set out to do this; it was simply the next horror I found on Netflix. And it got a somew...

In my continuing quest for Halloween-type movies that I haven't seen before and might want to, I accepted Netflix's up-front suggest...

Hiroshi Teshigahara directed this in the wake of Woman in the Dunes , also based on a Kōbō Abe novel, so it's considered something of a ...

This franchise has had eight movies, the 2019 one a remake/reboot, but nearly all have subpar ratings. I decided that the first and most pop...

This feature gets a very mixed reception, as reflected by the disparity between critic and audience scores on Rotten Tomatoes: 93% vs. 54%, ...

I didn't think I'd be seeing any more old Frankenstein entries from Universal Pictures. Even The Bride of Frankenstein was more che...

Given how much I loved the first Doctor Strange outing , it would take an extraordinary misfire for his next eponymous feature not to be wo...

I browsed Netflix for a good end to the month and came across this title. Why wasn't it on my list already? After all, I liked The Conju...

If your first thought was the Billy Idol song, yup, this is where the title came from. It's also thought to have influenced the appearan...

Before 2000, almost all Marvel Comics movies bombed. I'd heard that this was the one standout, however mixed its reception. At least it ...

Rarely is there such a discrepancy between a movie's popularity and its enduring influence. This one got middling ratings at best across...