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

After how much I enjoyed HtTYD2 , I decided that if the threequel was any good, I would not wait long to see it -- this time in a theater. T...

I swear I didn't mean to rent two Peter Falk flicks in a row . Ironically, the point was to see something rather unlike the first. Certa...

Gena Rowlands has been one of those actors I've heard of repeatedly but couldn't place. It made sense to remedy this by seeing the f...

It's been a while,  Paweł Pawlikowski . I see you're still writing and directing B&W tragedies set in post-WWII Poland and runni...

Someone's been dropping DVDs on the giveaway shelves at my apartment building. This was the only one to interest me so far. I didn't...

This picture must have felt familiar to John Wayne. Twenty years earlier, he had played a major role in They Were Expendable , another naval...

Another movie set in Mexico , but this one's pretty darn different. As a '70s western  with an odd title, it seemed likely to be off...

A friend of my family warned that he found this deathly boring. This is someone who usually favors movies about ordinary people in ordinary ...

I picked this almost at random among the many theater offerings on Monday evening. Queen is one of my favorite bands, but I'd been putti...

Some filmmakers and critics, including Roger Ebert, count this film among their top ten. So why do I never hear about it? Oh, right: because...