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

I had seen only two Charlie Chaplin movies that were not even partly silent: The Great Dictator  and Limelight . They were about on par with...

This is the first and more popular of only two productions by Studio Ponoc, a breakaway from Studio Ghibli. The company was not yet trying t...

Had I paid more attention, I would not have chased the weirdest David Lynch movie I've seen with a Lars von Trier piece. Still, this wa...

My previous familiarity with David Lynch was actually pretty diverse: The Elephant Man (very good), Blue Velvet (gruesome but admirable), ...

The case depicted herein was before my time. I wasn't even sure at first that the movie was based on a true story. Fortunately, I've...

It had been a while since  my last John Wayne picture  and longer since  my last John Ford picture . As you may have guessed, this gets labe...

I hadn't seen a '30s picture in more than half a year. Incidentally, that one also depicted East Asians in a way that wouldn't ...

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...