Screening Log
This new site feature is a collective effort to summarize our viewing habits. Occasionally, you will find titles here that are coming to a theater near you, in addition to films viewed on television, and even films viewed in piecemeal. The screening log is archived each month; to view past entries select a month in the menu below.
January 2005 activity
Total Log Entries: 58
- Adam (0)
- Andrew (0)
- Chet (0)
- Chiranjit (0)
- David (0)
- Eva (0)
- Evan (0)
- Ian (0)
- Jenny (0)
- Katherine (0)
- Leo (11)
- Megan (0)
- Rumsey (17)
- Teddy (0)
- Thomas (9)
- Timothy (0)
- Victoria (0)
Total Comments: 19
- Shallow Hal (0)
- The Sure Thing (0)
- Million Dollar Baby (0)
- The Motorcycle Diaries (0)
- Eraserhead (3)
- The Tin Drum (0)
- Crows and Sparrows (0)
- Strike (0)
- Bruce Almighty (1)
- Closer (0)
- Facing Windows (0)
- Secret Honor (0)
- Dogville (0)
- Village of the Damned (1)
- Garden State (2)
- The Aviator (0)
- Sherlock Jr. (0)
- Maisie Was a Lady (0)
- Who’s That Knocking At My Door? (0)
- The Bourne Identity (0)
- Gerry (0)
- Early Summer (0)
- Blue Denim (1)
- Darkman (0)
- Seance (0)
- The Lady Vanishes (1)
- Watch on the Rhine (0)
- A String of Pearls (0)
- The Laborer’s Love (0)
- Made in Britain (0)
- The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (4)
- Million Dollar Baby (0)
- The Harder They Come (0)
- The Pit (0)
- Kronos (2)
- The Return of the Living Dead (2)
- The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (0)
- Random Harvest (0)
- Spider-Man 2 (1)
- Spectre (0)
- Paris, Texas (0)
- Damn Yankees (0)
- Kinsey (1)
- The Incredibles (0)
- Saved! (0)
- A Woman Under the Influence (0)
- Fighting Elegy (0)
- Youth of the Beast (0)
- The Letter (0)
- Fanny and Alexander (0)
- Deadly Fight in Hiroshima (0)
- Partie de campagne (0)
- The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (0)
- A Woman Under the Influence (0)
- Gates of Heaven (0)
- Scenes from a Marriage (0)
- Blow Job (0)
- The Delta Force (0)
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The Return of the Living Dead / USA / 1985
Respectably, The Return of the Living Dead acknowledges its primary influence in its opening minutes with mention of Romero’s original zombie film. Partially, this also cites a debt to the older film which Return will not attempt to recoup. Instead, the implicit rules and behaviors of the Living Dead are branched off in a more self-aware, comedic realm. There are also lots of punks in this film, and even they are rendered mute once a zombie remarks that he can smell their brains. FULL REVIEW
by Rumsey Taylor | Source: HBO Video VHS
16 Jan 2005 1:08 PM | Comments (2)
Thomas / 17 January 2005 / 2:34 PM / URL
Admirably, this film not only pays homage to Romero’s zombies, but offers its own version of what zombies are really like, depicting the undead as fast-moving, creative, and almost pitiable creatures. Wonderfully ridiculous scenes follow one on top of another, building to multiple moments of climactic terror that had my friends and I cheering. Well deserving of the almost universal high praise it receives.
Eva Michelle / 26 January 2005 / 4:16 PM
What I remember most is the topless punk (who is apparently a nymphomaniac and likely to commit suicide) who becomes a zombie. I don’t know what that says about me. But I did enjoy watching the movie.