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

Despite the esteem of Roald Dahl, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory  appears to be the only highly popular adaptation of his literature....

Rocky  has been my favorite boxing movie for ages, but that's not saying much. I had never watched any of its sequels in full, tho I did...

Sometimes all it takes to gain my interest is a distinctive poster. And repeated suggestions on Netflix. And a good IMDb score. I hadn't...

No, it has nothing to do with Capitol Hill or any other famous real hill. I chose this film partly because I hadn't seen any work of Sid...

No, not the 2010 animation written by Jacques Tati. Like  Infamous , this movie got overshadowed by a similarly themed movie out around the ...

Zhang Yimou might be best known in the west for directing action flicks, including the wuxia  variety, like Hero  and House of Flying Dagger...

I surprised myself by watching this. Not only do I rarely like modern comedies anymore, but spy parodies are too easy and overdone. Still, i...

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...