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.


March 2006 activity

Total Log Entries: 87

Total Comments: 44


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Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade / USA / 1989

Raiders improves with age, Temple Of Doom was always a fairly nasty (if guiltily enjoyable) mistake, but this one seems to pale with each successive viewing. On release it seemed like a breath of fresh air, not too serious, now it just feels like crude slapstick, undermining the potential grandeur of its subject matter with feeble jokes and swiss- cheese plotting (how do the Jones boys get from Austria to Berlin without being caught? We’re clearly not supposed to ask). Sean Connery mugs up a storm, Harrison Ford frowns a lot, John Rhys Davies and Denholm Elliott, fine actors both, are reduced to caricatures. And the love interest is just utterly forgettable- no wonder Alison Doody disappeared into swift obscurity.

by Tom Huddleston | Source: Sky Movies
28 Mar 2006 7:12 AM | Submit Comment


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