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

Sometimes marketed as Shoot the Pianist , this Fran ç ois Truffaut film had sat among the Netflix suggestions for me for a long time before ...

For once, I went to an event with both a Meetup group and my dad. Why he declined to register as my plus-one or participate in the group dis...

This may be the longest movie I've seen since I started this blog. Running nearly 3.5 hours with no overture or intermission, it feels l...

Hard to believe it's not an election year, what with all the attention to who's running. In light of that, I moved the most obviousl...

Had it really been ten years since I last watched a feature film from Aardman Animations? I'm afraid so. After the success of Chicken Ru...

The Criterion Collection advertises this as part of "The Orphic Trilogy," which is a little odd as (1) the next in the series came...

Looking for a heartwarming romance? Be warned: This is very much film noir, a genre in which "strange" typically doesn't work ...

I've seen many adaptations of Sherlock Holmes in movies, TV shows, and plays. After a while, I felt that the next would have to be prett...

Cult classic time! I had never heard of director Richard Rush (appropriate surname on an action flick) or any of his other works. Nor had I ...

Here I am already reviewing another mid-'40s war movie in which the objective is to blow up a bridge. One key difference is that this on...