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

Oops, already another noir about hit men . Well, this doesn't have much else in common. Max (Jamie Foxx), an especially good taxi driv...

Ads hastened to point out that writer-director Richard Curtis wrote  Love Actually , Notting Hill , and Four Weddings and a Funeral . If you...

No, it has nothing to do with the threequel to Dirty Harry . It is a crime thriller about a series of murders with a gritty cop as the prota...

I hadn't planned on seeing two Japanese animations in a row; I just noticed that this one was playing at the theater and wouldn't be...

Not long ago, Hayao Miyazaki was the only name in anime to mean anything to me. Then I became aware of his fellow directors and writers Isao...

The recent death of Robert James Waller prompted me to check out the one screen adaptation of his best-known novel. It's unlikely that I...

I think I put this film on my list for being different. Not only is it a rare entry from Guatemala; its main language is one I'd never h...

Clicking my "ussr" tag at the bottom will show you how much trouble I've had appreciating Soviet filmography. When it's no...

This could easily have been a flop. One of the last movies directed by Howard Hawks, it looked a lot like his earlier westerns, which didn...

I had not expected to see another movie set in a world war so soon. The next disc in my queue must have had an unannounced wait. Thankfully...