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

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...

What a trickily punctuated title. Someone must regret that the original had a colon. Anyway, since the past three sequels had been going s...

I was not aware that a nearly fully animated feature with voice actors not all playing themselves could be called a documentary, tho some ha...

I don't know what possessed me to deliberately put this at the top of my queue right after The Lost Patrol , another war movie with, wel...

When a pre-Code movie is a remake, that can mean only one thing: The original was silent. Quite an understandable move when there's plen...

Allegedly, Iranian critics in 1997 selected this as Iran's best picture ever, tho I can't find a solid citation for this repeated cl...

Hmm, a purportedly feminist mid-2010s horror-drama in Farsi, with a director who's part Iranian and part British, faring moderately on I...

Just because I can't go to a theater doesn't mean I'm going to spend the whole summer without a typical summer movie! This one m...

It's not often that I watch inherently tragic documentaries, no matter how honored they are. In this case, I accepted a Meetup invitatio...

I read the Kahlil Gibran book long enough ago that I don't remember much of it, but I know I liked it. It presents some pretty unusual t...

Director Majid Majidi was not a complete unknown to me. I liked Children of Heaven  pretty well. IMDb confirms that I saw Baran , but I don...

I've seen a few movies set in Israel, invariably with a religiopolitical focus. But Omar had been the only one I'd seen with a Pale...

Nice to have finally seen a second Best Animated Feature nominee for the year . It had also been a while since I last saw an entire movie st...

Ever watch a movie simply because it's on IMDb' top 250? I have many times, with mixed results. In all likelihood, I would not have ...

I imagine that nobody was "ready" for this film when it arrived. For starters, it's set in Iran but made in the USA; that'...

The preview had gotten me interested in this one. It's based on a true story of nine French Trappist monks in Algeria under threat from ...