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

Before the next Academy Awards, I thought I'd catch up on previous winners and nominees. I had been putting this Best Picture off becaus...

This film is probably best known as Frank Capra's last, not for reasons of health so much as interpersonal frustration on set and dissat...

The year after The Adventures of Robin Hood , Warner Bros. wanted another Technicolor picture directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Errol ...

The original Spanish title literally translates to "The Minimal Island." Either way, the point is to call attention to a remote se...

Here it is, folks: the first movie I've seen set during the COVID-19 pandemic, specifically May 2020. That said, we don't see people...

The Wages of Fear (1953) became one of my favorite movies when I watched, tho I might think differently upon a rewatch. When I learned that...

Yes, it was necessary to provide the director's name in the title. This same year saw a mostly live-action Disney remake. There's al...

When I selected this to follow a comedy , I had forgotten that it was another comedy. I must have known at one time, because I recognize the...

I didn't get much out of The Lego Movie , and the surprisingly prominent Batman therein was not the highlight to my mind. This spinoff d...

Another up-for-grabs DVD that I hadn't been planning to see. I almost passed over it, but then I checked its IMDB rating and looked at ...