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

I had never seen a Finnish flick before. My dad and I decided this was one of the more promising entries in the AFI European Union Film Show...

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...

While my mom enjoyed Wonder Woman and Black Panther , she was only half-interested in this woman-led superhero feature. If Dad and I had de...

Once again , George Cukor directs an MGM feature with a feminine focus in the title and a nasty role for Joan Crawford. This one has a tight...

I had planned to see this in a theater but put it off too long. Maybe I was too afraid it would be...not bad, but far below its predecessor,...

Wow, a brand new Christmas movie in the IMDb top 250. Has that ever happened before? And how long can we expect it to stay up there? There s...

I had not heard of this until Dad rented it, and he couldn't remember where he heard of it. Neither of us knew before the opening credit...

The entire Department Q trilogy was on a list of favorite Netflix screening options. I took care to start with the first, not The Absent One...

Ah, Carl Theodor Dreyer, it's been a while. When you're not dabbling in artistic horror , I can count on you for some sort of religi...

Although the Netflix summary mentions only summer, I recalled from what little I had already seen of this movie that it gets snowy -- not a ...

The British Film Institute's favorite films include quite a few artsy numbers that do next to nothing for me. Taking a suggestion from ...

A Meetup group on international cinema invited me to this entry in a Ruben Östlund festival. I would not have come otherwise, and not just b...

Netflix ventured almost a full five stars in suggesting this to me, probably because that's what I gave The Hunt . Both are recent drama...