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

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...

No, I really didn't have St. Patrick's Day in mind when I put this right after The Banshees of Inisherin in my queue. I just happen...

I might as well tell you up front how to pronounce the last word of the title: "in-uh-SHARE-in." I won't provide similar guida...

I don't recall learning about this one before. Maybe Netflix recommended it based on my interest in vaguely similar rentals. Maybe I wan...

I knew going in that this would be gloomy. Nevertheless, I was interested to see something directed by Steve McQueen (the British one) other...

I had an unusual reason for moving this to the top of my queue: At some point, I had rated it accidentally, never having seen it. Netflix, a...

When I learned that this was an Irish movie about amateur music, I figured my mom would love it, as she loved Once and The Commitments . Th...

Wow, only 31 IMDb votes before mine and no comments. Leave it to AFI to dig up obscure foreign titles. Still, an 8.7 is nothing to sneeze at...

Many movies and shows stop streaming on Netflix on January 1. This one stops on December 31 for some reason, so I gave it priority. At least...

I hadn't expected to see this, especially in a theater. The advertising just hadn't grabbed me, if I even knew of it. But when my fo...

As with the How to Train Your Dragon series, I don't feel like I can review my most recent viewing without also reviewing another. Sot...

This has to be the first movie I've seen because of the title appearing in a Warner Bros. cartoon, albeit on a copy of the book. Despite...

Conventionally, this is classified as film noir, as befits pre- Rififi director Jules Dassin, but I think it pushes the bounds of that labe...