Watched and Learned: My Take on Films from Whenever and Wherever
Wednesday, March 28, 2018
Isle of Dogs (2018)
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This review is for those seemingly few who, like me, neither love nor hate the works of Wes Anderson (the rest have no need of a review in t...
Loving Vincent (2017)
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This is the first time I've known an animated movie's DVD to show trailers only for non-animations. They don't even look similar...
Friday, March 23, 2018
La BĂȘte Humaine/The Human Beast (1938)
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This early or at least proto-film noir came out the year in between Jean Renoir's two most esteemed films, Grand Illusion and The Rules...
Wednesday, March 21, 2018
The Cameraman (1928)
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Buster Keaton may be my favorite silent star. He doesn't attain as much pathos as Charlie Chaplin, but he sure knows comedy, often with ...
Saturday, March 17, 2018
Dil Se.. (1998)
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To my dismay, my current Netflix list consists mostly of movies from the last few years. Guess I've seen most of their older promising s...
Wednesday, March 14, 2018
Black Panther (2018)
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Two years ago, I would've had reservations about an adaptation of a character who clearly came out of the blaxploitation era. Thankfully...
Tuesday, March 13, 2018
Mr. Blandings Build His Dream House (1948)
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I may have first known this title from a bookshelf, but what got me interested in the movie was its inclusion in AFI's 100 Years...100 L...
Titanic (1953)
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You may wonder why I bothered watching this a few years after another '50s British account of the event, A Night to Remember (which I ...
Thursday, March 8, 2018
The Breadwinner (2017)
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Nice to have finally seen a second Best Animated Feature nominee for the year . It had also been a while since I last saw an entire movie st...
Saturday, March 3, 2018
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)
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For all the praise heaped on this movie, for all the high ratings across different websites, I was reluctant to watch. The trailer made clea...
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