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

Yes, already another movie that's partly about war in southeast Asia , but that's about where the similarity ends. I previously ment...

The only movie I'd previously seen directed (not associate-directed) by Kon Ichikawa was The Burmese Harp . As war flicks go, it's p...

It's not often that I watch inherently tragic documentaries, no matter how honored they are. In this case, I accepted a Meetup invitatio...

Already another mid-20th-century drama with an alliterative title in the "X for Y" format, based on a book, with Anthony Quinn in...

To honor the late Kirk Douglas ( again ), I selected one of his most popular movies that I hadn't seen yet. Only after it arrived did I ...

Seeing fewer than half the Best Picture nominees has not prevented me from appreciating certain Academy Awards ceremonies, but I still got t...

I had never seen Christopher Reeve in any non-Superman movie except The Remains of the Day , where his role was too minor for my synopsis. I...

If not for the Looney Tunes short "Porky's Movie Mystery," I probably would have overlooked the Mr. Moto series while perusing...

In my rush to see more Academy nominees, I once again chose what was playing at a good time and was not a remake. I went in thinking, ...

Oof, already another movie longer than three hours —196 minutes, to be exact. I hadn't paid attention to that when I arranged the order;...