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

Bland title, ain't it? It came out the year after Stagecoach , so it's not like there hadn't been many westerns yet. Nevertheles...

This must be the first time I've taken Netflix's up-front suggestion for movie streaming. Now I've finally seen all the most rec...

Possibly the most popular '39 film I hadn't seen yet, it stands out for having an all-female cast of more than 130. This includes th...

Another golden anniversary airing, this time with a group invitation. Someone asked why we'd all come. Apart from the two above reasons,...

I have to reach pretty far back these days for an Academy Best Picture nominee that I haven't seen yet and might want to see, apart from...

Right from the first minute of the preview -- establishing that one Harold Crick suddenly hears his life narrated by a novelist -- I got the...

Some of the biggest weaknesses from the mostly great  The Avengers  have been reduced this time around. For example, with more screen time, ...

I had seen two Robert Bresson movies before:  A Man Escaped  and Diary of a Country Priest . Had I remembered, I would have approached this ...

What a ripoff: We never see the parade itself! ...OK, I didn't really come for that, and probably neither did others. In truth, the stor...

It wasn't long ago that I rewatched Blade Runner at a theater, only this time aware that it was intended partly as a film noir. Now I s...