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

I had not heard of this Disney+ special or even the Marvel antihero of the same name until I perused the Halloween section of Disney+. Among...

This was the first Halloweeny title I found on my Netflix list. It also happened to be leaving Netflix today. Sorry if you wanted to see it ...

The only Godzilla movie I'd seen before was the 1954 original, which my dad and I found surprisingly serious. Most of the rest sounded s...

I hadn't heard of this when it was new, probably because it was showing only on the Disney Channel. Only now that I've seen it on a ...

I enjoyed the first two  entries in this trilogy more than most viewers, but I couldn't be sure that I'd like the threequel. Some p...

One glance at the poster told me to expect something pretty trashy. It looked like a Jaws  knockoff minus the water. The movie even had Land...

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

I wasn't sure I could still enjoy mockumentaries, as the last one I did was A Mighty Wind in 2003. Sacha Baron Cohen struck me as large...

Yup, another 1960s horror set in feudal Japan already. But there are key differences, starting with the fact that this piece is a compilati...

It's unusual for me to watch a threequel (well, third entry, anyway) before either of its predecessors. Perhaps I was tempted by the tit...

I confess I did not really watch the  Buffy the Vampire Slayer TV series, let alone the movie. Only with Firefly did I become a mild fan of ...

One of my most viewed posts on this blog compares Hotel Transylvania and its two rivals at the time. In the present review, I'm not in...

Somehow I had thought of this Australian horror as a potential companion piece to A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night , probably just because i...

Boy, the next movie I saw after  Vampyr  also had vampires but otherwise couldn't be more different if it tried. I considered reviewing ...