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

I usually wait longer between comedies , partly because there aren't a whole lot that I want to see. But it's good to have one on ha...

You may have seen this described as an Italian film. That's a little misleading: None of the major actors are Italian, all the original ...

Offhand, I think I've seen only one other Argentine movie in my lifetime, and it was about 20 years ago. I don't recall what first g...

This may be the most foreign DVD I have ever used. The menu is in Spanish; you have to either know some already or recognize cognates to fin...

Yeah, I don't even have to add the date in parentheses. Back then, musicals about stage productions were sickeningly common, and some ti...

I had been content to let Dancer in the Dark  (2000) be my only exposure to Lars von Trier. Oh, I liked it well, but he has a reputation for...

A film based loosely on a real-life dog famous for waiting years for a dead master does not sound like a good time. Do you even have a reaso...

Having declined in religiosity, I don't watch film adaptations of Christian legends/books as much as I used to. But a good swords-and-sa...

Oh look, LAIKA again . For once, I felt like seeing their work in a theater, and so did my dad. Maybe that's because the stop-motion an...

Consider this a last hurrah for my Shakespeare viewings in the year of his 400th deathday. It didn't seem right to go without a more s...