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

Dr. Strange is a tough act to follow, and here I am following it with another major studio's massive spectacle about sorcery. But as a ...

Due to participation in NaNoWriMo, my viewing has dropped sharply, hence the scarcity of my reviews this month. But as some of you know, I...

After  Andrei Rublev  and Stalker , I thought I might never take another chance on director Andrei Tarkovsky, especially with one of his lon...

I wasn't sure I could still enjoy mockumentaries, as the last one I did was A Mighty Wind in 2003. Sacha Baron Cohen struck me as large...

This tends to get classified as sci-fi rather than horror, as befits what we think of '50s flicks, but the premise sounded pretty scary ...

A few years ago, I was surprised to see an article listing many reasons that this was the #1 Halloween flick. I hadn't even heard about ...

Yup, another 1960s horror set in feudal Japan already. But there are key differences, starting with the fact that this piece is a compilati...

The earliest movie by this title, from 1927, was the only Hitchcock silent I've seen. That had been a modernized (for the time) take on ...

Ah, Carl Theodor Dreyer, it's been a while. When you're not dabbling in artistic horror , I can count on you for some sort of religi...

It's unusual for me to watch a threequel (well, third entry, anyway) before either of its predecessors. Perhaps I was tempted by the tit...