Watched and Learned: My Take on Films from Whenever and Wherever
Monday, December 26, 2016
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)
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It's hard to get all five local members of my family to agree on a movie, as we do for Christmas. This was a bit of a compromise, with m...
The Prince and the Pauper (1937)
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After a few unhappy movies, I decided that my best bet was to pick a story I already knew to have a happy ending. At the same time, it had t...
Friday, December 23, 2016
Jackie (2016)
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As a Xennial, I knew only so much about Jacqueline Kennedy. I had no mental picture of her and probably never watched any footage of her. Th...
Wednesday, December 21, 2016
Never Let Me Go (2010)
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I need to get in the habit of doing more preliminary research before picking a film, seeing as I had written off Kazuo Ishiguro. Furthermo...
Saturday, December 17, 2016
Handsome Devil (2016)
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Wow, only 31 IMDb votes before mine and no comments. Leave it to AFI to dig up obscure foreign titles. Still, an 8.7 is nothing to sneeze at...
Thursday, December 15, 2016
The Vanishing (1988)
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Not to be confused with its 1993 U.S. remake. I believe I had been planning to watch this during October, filled up on Halloween-y other fil...
Saturday, December 10, 2016
I, Daniel Blake (2016)
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Did I really feel up to another Ken Loach drama ? Well, yes, when it's more esteemed than the others I've seen. And recent enough th...
Like Crazy (2016)
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AFI’s European Union Film Showcase kicked off with this movie, so my parents figured it was one of the most promising entries and came with ...
The Bourne Ultimatum (2007)
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I've been putting this off a long time, because unlike most viewers, I got very little out of the first two Bourne entries. The Bourne ...
Saturday, December 3, 2016
Call Northside 777 (1948)
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It had been a month and a half since my last B&W film, so I decided to watch one of the few such entries on my Netflix streaming list. A...
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