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

Saturday, April 27, 2019

Mirai (2018)

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This 2018 Best Animated Feature nominee, the final one I've viewed , must have received the least attention of the five, at least in ...
Tuesday, April 23, 2019

Pale Rider (1985)

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If anyone could and would make a serious western in the mid-'80s , it was Clint Eastwood. Indeed, PR  made more money at the box office ...
Saturday, April 20, 2019

Battleground (1949)

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Wings  is my favorite war silent this side of The General , so it was about time I saw another William Wellman war flick. This came more tha...
Wednesday, April 17, 2019

Shazam! (2019)

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One summary I've seen of why DC Comics movies haven't done as consistently well as the Marvel Cinematic Universe is that they aren...
Friday, April 12, 2019

Dodes'ka-den (1970)

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You won't find the titular term even in a Japanese dictionary, but I expect to remember it for a long time, because it is spoken many ti...
Wednesday, April 10, 2019

Brigadoon (1954)

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This may be the first film I watched because of a vocabulary lesson. Dictionaries make the titular place sound akin to Xanadu or Shangri-la,...
Saturday, April 6, 2019

Old Yeller (1957)

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This is one of those movies of which people, at least in my circles, talk about only one moment. In the past, this would tell me that I had ...
Saturday, March 30, 2019

Pickup on South Street (1953)

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Wow, not only had it been six months since my last arguable film noir ; it had been nearly a year since my last black and white film noir . ...
Wednesday, March 27, 2019

BlacKkKlansman (2018)

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My parents felt that Spike Lee's first non-honorary Oscar was a long time coming and thus were glad when he got one for Best Adapted Scr...
Sunday, March 24, 2019

Captain Marvel (2019)

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Initial reactions by others were unpromising: The movie opened with a lower IMDb score than any other Marvel Cinematic Universe entry curren...
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