Watched and Learned: My Take on Films from Whenever and Wherever
Saturday, June 24, 2023
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023)
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My friend and I were planning to see The Flash together, until he read some less savory reviews of it. I might still check it out, but for ...
Sunday, June 18, 2023
Weathering with You (2020)
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Another surrealistic Japanese film already , but that's about where the similarity ends. I was not at all surprised that many of the sam...
Thursday, June 15, 2023
The Face of Another (1966)
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Hiroshi Teshigahara directed this in the wake of Woman in the Dunes , also based on a Kōbō Abe novel, so it's considered something of a ...
Friday, June 9, 2023
Battling Butler (1926)
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I hadn't seen Buster Keaton in more than five years . BB was actually his personal favorite and his second biggest box office hit, grea...
Saturday, June 3, 2023
Angel Face (1952)
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So far, my Otto Preminger viewings have been about half great and half mixed in my opinion. This one had the added appeal of Robert Mitchum ...
Saturday, May 27, 2023
Séance on a Wet Afternoon (1964)
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This is pretty rare: a movie that was highly esteemed when new, both at home and overseas, but did so poorly at the box office that the prod...
Saturday, May 20, 2023
The Harder They Fall (2021)
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I would not have thought to see this if my friend hadn't asked to while visiting. I'm not sure I'd even heard about it before, d...
Friday, May 19, 2023
Sands of Iwo Jima (1949)
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OK, so I got a head start on my war movie viewing for Memorial Day. This one may have caught my attention because of John Wayne getting an O...
Saturday, May 13, 2023
Christ in Concrete/Give Us This Day/Salt to the Devil (1949)
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Yes, it's all one picture. The first title, used by Netflix, is from the adapted novel, but that wasn't allowed in UK theaters. The ...
Friday, May 12, 2023
Conan the Barbarian (1982)
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This is one of those movies I watched for education more than entertainment . It still gets cited now and then, particularly for a handful o...
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