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

To my dismay, my current Netflix list consists mostly of movies from the last few years. Guess I've seen most of their older promising s...

Finally got around to another movie from India , albeit not the kind that comes to mind when I think of Bollywood. This one caught my intere...

I'm quite certain that I'd never seen a Singaporean feature before. I'm less certain how I came to put it on my list. But when m...

For all its peculiarity, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is one of my favorite celluloid romances. When I learned that writer Michel ...

I'm a bit wary of entries from the British Film Institute's "Top 50 Greatest Films of All Time." More than half the time, ...

Has it really been more than a year since  my last Bollywood viewing ? Well, the realization wasn't my reason for breaking the streak. I...

If I had realized that I was already seeing  another movie set in the 1945 European Theater , I would have put this further down my queue. B...

I have discovered that despite my desire to mix old and new cinema, my streaming list is mostly new fare. Shall I blame Netflix's priori...

What does it take to get me to watch a documentary nowadays? Well, a focus on movies helps . I once watched the divisive David Lynch Dune ...

More than a week since my last review? Clearly, I was in no hurry to talk about another art film. The main reason I moved it to the top of m...

You can't tell from any of my previous entries, but I'm a major Steven Spielberg fan. Maybe being named after him has biased me in h...

I'm not sure what drew me to this pseudo-western (set in the modern West). Despite its recency and high ratings on multiple sites, I don...

With a little more foresight, I would have followed my previous viewing with a movie that promised to be exciting, as with action. Instead, ...

IMDb helpfully listed 50 movies with (vaguely) patriotic American themes for the 4th of July. As usual for cinematic lists, I'd seen mos...

Another interestingly uninteresting title, this time with the partial excuse of coming from India, where the narrator pronounces "Wedne...

Modern Indian movies that find fan bases in the west have a good track record with me. It doesn't hurt that they pretty much all, whethe...