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

I can safely say that this is the first film I ever watched at the advice of a homeless person (who reviewed several holiday movies in a cha...

Ah, romantic comedies, possibly the biggest entertainment gambles I take. Those from the '30s may be my biggest of all, equally likely t...

Yup, a second mashup of kiddie folklore featuring Chris Pine in the same day. My family has a strange habit or inadvertent tradition of seei...

By now some of you may be thinking, "What's with all the 2012 animations on this blog?" I couldn't tell you. I moved this ...

A rare case in which my dad selected a movie I never heard of before. It's also a rare case in which I had to wonder about the title. Th...

This has to be the first movie I've seen because of the title appearing in a Warner Bros. cartoon, albeit on a copy of the book. Despite...

Conventionally, this is classified as film noir, as befits pre- Rififi director Jules Dassin, but I think it pushes the bounds of that labe...

I must have heard of this movie before its suggestion via Netflix, because it got Richard Jenkins nominated for Best Actor, but I don't ...

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...

As you may have guessed from the title, it's a western; and as you may have guessed from the year of release, it's not very serious ...