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

I hadn't expected to see this, especially in a theater. The advertising just hadn't grabbed me, if I even knew of it. But when my fo...

For all the international movies I watch, I had never seen an Indonesian one before. I don't recall whether I took the recommendation fr...

This love story was nominated for the Academy Awards for Best Picture; Best Director (Sam Wood); and Best Cinematography, Black-and-White. T...

It's not easy to review a film with a focus on a civil rights hero. Viewers' passions are bound to run high, and some might take eve...

At first I figured that the title translated to "The Overpass." It's actually "The Overtaking," which refers to the ...

You can't tell from any of my previous entries, but I'm a major Steven Spielberg fan. Maybe being named after him has biased me in h...

Oops. Due to a wait at the top of my Netflix queue, this got a "belated" delivery that I would have put off until next year if I h...

I'm not sure what drew me to this pseudo-western (set in the modern West). Despite its recency and high ratings on multiple sites, I don...

Somehow I had thought of this Australian horror as a potential companion piece to A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night , probably just because i...

No, the title has nothing to do with the biblical use of the term. In fact, it relies heavily on Mayan mythology. Since I'd forgotten th...