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

I first heard of this silent as evidence that D.W. Griffith was not really a Ku Klux Klan sympathizer, just a storyteller who used whatever ...

It finally came via Netflix, and boy (heh), am I relieved not to have seen it in a theater. Oh, I've sat thru longer movies without brea...

This was probably not the best choice to follow on the heels of Play . I don't mind multiple foreign films in a row, especially from dif...

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...

As with the How to Train Your Dragon series, I don't feel like I can review my most recent viewing without also reviewing another. Sot...

Finally, I've seen every Best Animated Feature nominee from that year and, more importantly for myself, every feature ever directed by H...

At last I've seen half the Best Picture nominees, and one of the most favored at that! I had not been excited to see it, because what I...

Until Netflix announced the end of its streaming, I kept vacillating on whether to see this, because I find David Fincher enjoyable only abo...

I enjoy quite a few war movies, but recommending them is seldom easy. Battle-heavy ones in particular threaten to run together; if you don...

Movies about fictitious musicians are a pretty big gamble for me. While biopics offer some true info if nothing else, the fiction pics don...