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

Tuesday, December 31, 2019

Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1983)

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I knew going in that this would not be a jolly holiday flick. It's about prisoners of war, after all. Still, I could think of no more ap...
Friday, December 27, 2019

Klaus (2019)

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Wow, a brand new Christmas movie in the IMDb top 250. Has that ever happened before? And how long can we expect it to stay up there? There s...
Saturday, December 21, 2019

Sully (2016)

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I haven't seen many pieces of entertainment, in any medium, based directly on events that I heard about when they were news . In this ca...
Tuesday, December 17, 2019

The Traitor (2019)

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Thanks partly to a late start on my part, I didn't connect with the Meetup group that invited me to this showing, even afterward. Still,...
Friday, December 13, 2019

A Soldier's Story (1984)

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Uh-oh, another  little-mentioned '80s drama . Fortunately in my eyes, this one came out the same year as Amadeus , which could easily ov...
Friday, December 6, 2019

Autumn Sonata (1978)

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This is only the second Ingmar Bergman film I've seen in color, as well as the first with dubbing rather than subtitles, because that...
Saturday, November 30, 2019

They Call Me Trinity (1970)

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I mentioned in my last review of a spaghetti western  that it came close to comedy. Now I've seen one that actually has comedy among its...
Tuesday, November 26, 2019

The Greatest Showman (2017)

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For my other full viewing on a plane lately, I selected another spectacle, this one depending much more on audio, which thankfully was not d...
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Alita: Battle Angel (2019)

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My plane headset had a bad case of feedback, so I missed at least a third of the dialog herein. I almost opted on that basis not to review t...
Friday, November 1, 2019

Take Shelter (2011)

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Although IMDb lists horror among the genres of this picture, it's more of a psychological thriller. There is little violence, and nobody...
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