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

I had no interest in this flick when it was new. Only after seeing repeated references to it more than a decade later did I think it might b...

This was probably the only movie I had been planning to see in a theater until the shutdown. I have since consoled myself by recalling how f...

I had not heard of this film until its silver anniversary silver screen re-release. Evidently, I had mixed thoughts on whether to see it; no...

I knew going in that this would be gloomy. Nevertheless, I was interested to see something directed by Steve McQueen (the British one) other...

Not the 2010 remake. It would take nothing short of a long plane ride with a poor entertainment menu to get me to watch that. Instead, in my...

In the interest of coping with a dark time, I picked the most famously optimistic movie I could think of. OK, all I really knew about it was...

Just because I can't go to a theater doesn't mean I'm going to spend the whole summer without a typical summer movie! This one m...

For my first Akira Kurosawa film in more than a year , I chose one that Kurosawa himself didn't think much of but that has enjoyed plent...

No, that year is not an error; despite U.S. production, this movie was first released in France three years ago, followed by China two years...

Hmm, I probably shouldn't have picked two movies in a row in which the FBI doesn't look so good. And it's not like I couldn...