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

Not since No Country for Old Men (2007) had I been so reluctant to watch an Academy Best Picture. It's a rather disturbing subject, esp...

France does a pretty good job on the animated feature front, albeit with a rather quirky focus. I had previously known director Michel Ocelo...

Ordinarily, I would skip this. I can enjoy movies set in African-American ghettos ( Boyz n the Hood , Do the Right Thing ) and biopics about...

I remember very little from my viewing of The Thin Man  (1934) years ago. I'm pretty sure it didn't do much for me. So why watch the...

I immediately found this title a little odd, because Bette Davis's face takes up the poster. Indeed, her character of Fanny Trellis/Skef...

I make a point to watch more than half the Academy Best Animated Feature nominees in any given year. I had seen two from 2015 already and ...

I was starting to think that I shouldn't bother seeing any more films about inspirational teachers. They're usually enjoyable, but t...

I think I chose this movie because I enjoyed Charles Bronson and James Coburn for their roles in westerns, including as two of The Magnifice...

Even after  getting burned by Lynch's Dune , I make a point to watch adaptations from famous novels I'm unlikely to read. Oh, I do r...

My second favorite medium is video games. This rarely has the slightest bearing on my choices for my favorite medium; I've never seen al...