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

Considering when the movie was made, it's a little curious that the narrator makes 1943 sound like a long time ago. But that's basic...

Netflix describes this as a coming-of-age comedy. IMDb assigns it only the genre of drama. I definitely side with IMDb on this one. While Fr...

While popular internationally, this film saw limited release in the U.S. I could easily tell why: Never have I had more trouble understandin...

I've long known Akira Kurosawa to take inspiration from westerns and Shakespeare plays for his samurai epics. But while I'd seen som...

When my mom described this to me, both before and after seeing it herself, I wasn't interested. Part of the problem is that I've los...

No, it wasn't the release of Jurassic World  that prompted me to watch the first dinosaur feature film ever. The AFI Silver Theater cele...

Rarely has a Netflix jacket description been so misleading. It says that this story concerns a man, George Stroud (Ray Milland), framed for ...

IMDb helpfully listed 50 movies with (vaguely) patriotic American themes for the 4th of July. As usual for cinematic lists, I'd seen mos...

The latest re-adaptation of the Thomas Hardy novel inspired me to move an old one up in my queue, though it had a very long wait. Both movie...

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 ...