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

Wednesday, April 30, 2025

Friday (1995)

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Another movie starring a rapper already. It is the source of several memes and quotes I've known -- more than I realized, in fact. ...
Sunday, April 27, 2025

The King of Kings (2025)

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Modern movies with a biblical focus tend to be either reputedly dippy or heretical if not blasphemous. From what I read, this would be neith...
Friday, April 25, 2025

Udaan (2010)

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This is about the same length as my previous viewing , which makes it quite short as Indian movies go. It's also about as dramatic as my...
Wednesday, April 23, 2025

Apollo 13 (1995)

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When I saw this in a theater at 13, I didn't like it much. It's big on crisis but not on visual spectacle, apart from a brief nightm...
Wednesday, April 16, 2025

Entergalactic (2022)

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I found this non-sci-fi's seemingly irrelevant title confusing, until I learned that it shares the name of the Kid Cudi album that provi...
Wednesday, April 9, 2025

Out of Africa (1985)

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Of the 92 Academy Best Pictures I've seen, this was the one I remembered least -- mainly just that Meryl Streep's fake accent was so...
Wednesday, April 2, 2025

Moana 2 (2024)

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I would have seen this in a theater if only it had a better reception. Nearly everyone deems it not on the same tier as its predecessor , an...
Thursday, March 27, 2025

The Look of Silence (2014)

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Yet again , I chose a viewing based on what was about to drop off my Netflix list. It's another documentary with more talking than anyth...
Saturday, March 22, 2025

The Nice Guys (2016)

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I was not planning to see this so soon after other action crime comedies . But once again, Netflix said it would stop streaming at the end...
Tuesday, March 11, 2025

Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023)

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Previous movies in the franchise (who knew there was more than one other?) bombed hard, but this reboot fares a lot better among critics and...
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