Watched and Learned: My Take on Films from Whenever and Wherever
Sunday, July 30, 2023
Pork Chop Hill (1959)
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I've hardly seen any depictions of the Korean War outside of M*A*S*H , which involves little to no onscreen battle. For more of that, I ...
Friday, July 28, 2023
The Hateful Eight (2015)
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I previously mentioned my friend's interest in this movie. He had seen the first maybe half of it before. Now he would know that it was...
Monday, July 24, 2023
Ride the Pink Horse (1947)
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For a moment, I expected a quirky western. As it is, I barely understand where the title came from. A character does ride an allegedly pink ...
Saturday, July 15, 2023
Police Story (1985)
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Had I realized I was about to see another action flick , I would not have put this next on my queue. Still, it's not all that similar. N...
Mission: Impossible -- Dead Reckoning Part 1 (2023)
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What a trickily punctuated title. Someone must regret that the original had a colon. Anyway, since the past three sequels had been going s...
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Monday, July 10, 2023
Pitfall (1962)
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This has nothing to do with the 1948 U.S. film noir, let alone the Activision video game series. It's another Hiroshi Teshigahara adapta...
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...
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