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

I hadn't heard of this feature until it got prominently advertised recently on Netflix. It turns out to have been a sleeper hit. Not sur...

I don't remember hearing about this story before, but I can guess why I added it to my queue. Family-friendly Irish fantasies have a goo...

I had rejected this option once before, but a Meetup group was set to discuss it. You can tell it's a small group, because they reschedu...

I've learned to approach low-budget indies with trepidation. No matter how popular they are, they hang by a thread, most likely apprecia...

I can safely say that this is the first movie I've ever seen where the main language is Yiddish, possibly with a little English mixed in...

I had not heard of this film until its silver anniversary silver screen re-release. Evidently, I had mixed thoughts on whether to see it; no...

Yeah, another R-rated, male-heavy, female-nudity-including crime flick already. But that's about where the similarity ends. This one is ...

Gena Rowlands has been one of those actors I've heard of repeatedly but couldn't place. It made sense to remedy this by seeing the f...

While I haven't reviewed other John Carpenter flicks on this blog, I have mostly enjoyed the seven I've watched, especially the ones...

I don't normally watch movies with middling ratings across the three major sites, especially in genres that aren't among my favorite...

This is the type of movie I don't normally watch in a theater nowadays, barring group invitations or award nominations. But it seems bet...

This may be the most obscure film I've ever reviewed. It presently has no Wikipedia entry and only seven votes on IMDb. But since I usua...

Do not confuse this with the first result when you look up the title. It has nothing to do with the 1982 Kathleen Collins pic. Instead, it...

Not to be confused with the unpopular 1998 remake, this is one of those flicks that bombed upon release but saw "vindication" on T...

It's unlike me to go to a screening on a whim, but I had walked past the theater in the afternoon and made a note to see something in th...

Another of my favorite media is comic strips, whether in print or online only. So I pretty much had to add this documentary to my queue on p...

I don't believe I'd ever seen a silent Swedish film before. Fittingly, it was Ingmar Bergman's favorite from an early age, thoug...

I'm pretty sure this used to be on IMDb’s top 250; that's most likely how I took notice of it. Nowadays it stands out as having the...