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

In the interest of narrowing my many choices, I usually avoid movies with IMDb overall ratings less than 7, barring unusual circumstances li...

I mentioned  that I would see another consecutive movie about a boy. Thankfully, it's quite different. In fact, despite the PG rating, I...

Think I've  seen   enough   movies  about boys for the month? Well, it hadn't occurred to me that I should rearrange my queue to put...

Oh look, James Cagney in prison. Sound familiar? Well, despite what you'd expect, he's innocent of the major charges this time. The ...

I had seen Toshirō Mifune in a dozen films, only one of them not directed by Akira Kurosawa. Even when he's not the main character, he h...

This is one of those titles I heard of as a kid but never got the initiative to check out. I couldn't have told you any difference betwe...

I've learned that there was a streak of anti-apartheid features in the years shortly before apartheid ended. The only one I had watched ...

Wow, Christopher Nolan writes, directs, and co-produces the depiction of a real event for a change. Well, to a point. The individual charact...

It is a testament to my ongoing youthfulness that I watched yet another superhero movie in a theater this summer. I watched alone, because I...

After my semi-success with  The King of Comedy , I decided to give another Martin Scorsese black comedy a shot. In a way, it's the oppos...