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

A common problem for war movies is a shortage of female characters. Maybe that's a reason I thought to check out this one, where female ...

Once again , George Cukor directs an MGM feature with a feminine focus in the title and a nasty role for Joan Crawford. This one has a tight...

Can you tell this is a foreign title? It's one of the most off-putting I've read since the Barf detergent brand. But as the exclamat...

I half-surprised myself with this choice. The movie didn't tempt me even when new (and I was more in the target age range), and it's...

I took this long to get to this Academy Best Picture nominee because, apart from the DVD wait time, it sounded predictable. Another auto rac...

Only after watching did I become aware that another adaptation of the Agatha Christie book is coming out this year. This information does no...

I don't normally put off Best Picture Oscar winners. My main reason for doing so this time was that it sounded thrilling enough for me t...

I had planned to see this in a theater but put it off too long. Maybe I was too afraid it would be...not bad, but far below its predecessor,...

No, it has nothing to do with The Fall . Reportedly, the title refers to the biblical Fall, but I'd hardly know from the movie itself: T...

For a picture I'd barely heard of, this was apparently pretty influential. It got a remake, it inspired Marlon Brando to work with write...