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

I realize it hadn't been long since the last movie I saw to include heavy focus on a British royal -- indeed, Queen Elizabeth I in parti...

As I've said, movies about real-life British royalty have a good track record with me. This one is by the same director (Charles Jarrott...

Evidently, I have a weakness for movies that include English royals among the characters. Becket , The King's Speech , The Lion in Wi...

Hoo boy, Darren Aronofsky. When he's not directing straightforward downers like Requiem for a Dream , he's spinning dark mind screws...

After a few unhappy movies, I decided that my best bet was to pick a story I already knew to have a happy ending. At the same time, it had t...

Consider this a last hurrah for my Shakespeare viewings in the year of his 400th deathday. It didn't seem right to go without a more s...

This may be the longest movie I've seen since I started this blog. Running nearly 3.5 hours with no overture or intermission, it feels l...

You can tell it was pretty late in the directing career of Orson Welles. Not having enough friends left in Hollywood, he turned to European ...

It had been a while since my last viewing of a silent film, and I wanted something on the short side. Since John Barrymore seems best rememb...