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

I almost skipped this Best Picture nominee because of the rape theme. Then it won Best Adapted Screenplay. Besides, I had mostly liked Promi...

Never has a title done more to both intrigue and repel me...at once. I feared that the movie would be either overdone or oversold. Maybe som...

I had already heard of a 1947 film noir of the same title. This Guillermo del Toro project isn't a remake so much as a second adaptation...

No, I really didn't have St. Patrick's Day in mind when I put this right after The Banshees of Inisherin in my queue. I just happen...

I had liked the 2011 Puss in Boots better than anything else associated with Shrek, so I was a little disappointed at its reception. The Ne...

I might as well tell you up front how to pronounce the last word of the title: "in-uh-SHARE-in." I won't provide similar guida...

Yep, the movie that enabled the slap heard 'round the world. Now I would see whether Will Smith even deserved his Oscar in the first pla...

The 1930 adaptation of the Erich Maria Remarque novel was my favorite Academy Best Picture of the decade. How could a remake live up to it? ...

This is not one of the more esteemed or discussed Best Animated Feature nominees for the year. I gave it priority over the other two I hadn...

This Japanese film does not include the Beatles song, which really wouldn't fit the dramatic tenor. Instead, it's based on a Haruki ...