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

I picked a war flick for Veterans Day, but it wasn't the best choice. The protagonist isn't a soldier, and the soldiers we see don...

This was actually my first viewing this month, but I opted to wait until after a scheduled Meetup discussion to write my review. It's th...

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...

Wisely marketed by Netflix as "Akira Kurosawa's Dreams," this is my first anthology viewing since...well, another Kurosawa pie...

My previous familiarity with David Lynch was actually pretty diverse: The Elephant Man (very good), Blue Velvet (gruesome but admirable), ...

The announcement of Academy Award nominations was the first I'd heard of this Netflix-adopted feature. I didn't bother to learn much...

This 2018 Best Animated Feature nominee, the final one I've viewed , must have received the least attention of the five, at least in ...

I hadn't planned on seeing two Japanese animations in a row; I just noticed that this one was playing at the theater and wouldn't be...

I think I put this film on my list for being different. Not only is it a rare entry from Guatemala; its main language is one I'd never h...

There's something to be said for taking a single sci-fi/fantasy concept and running with it. Unlike world building, it doesn't requi...

I make a point to watch more than half the Academy Best Animated Feature nominees in any given year. I had seen two from 2015 already and ...

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...

At last I've seen half the Best Picture nominees, and one of the most favored at that! I had not been excited to see it, because what I...