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.
July 2006 activity
Total Log Entries: 71
- Adam (5)
- Chet (0)
- Chiranjit (15)
- Cullen (0)
- David (0)
- Eva (0)
- Evan (0)
- Ian (5)
- Jenny (5)
- Katherine (0)
- Leo (6)
- Megan (0)
- Rumsey (17)
- Teddy (0)
- Thomas (0)
- Victoria (0)
Total Comments: 23
- Lady in the Water (1)
- Metropolitan (0)
- Bonnie and Clyde (0)
- 24 Hour Party People (0)
- Ace in the Hole (0)
- The 40 Year-Old Virgin (0)
- Krrish (1)
- Predator (0)
- Lethal Weapon (1)
- Batman (0)
- Mary of Scotland (0)
- Cheyenne Autumn (0)
- Heading South (0)
- Spider (0)
- Frenzy (0)
- Superman Returns (3)
- The Night Listener (1)
- Captain Blood (0)
- Sleepers (0)
- Snowcake (0)
- American Dreamz (0)
- Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (0)
- Demolition Man (0)
- Ace in the Hole (0)
- The Big Lebowski (0)
- Dazed and Confused (0)
- MASH (0)
- Dazed and Confused (0)
- Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (2)
- Superman Returns (0)
- Metropolitan (0)
- McCabe & Mrs. Miller (0)
- The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (0)
- An Inconvenient Truth (0)
- A Prairie Home Companion (0)
- X-Men: The Last Stand (0)
- Art School Confidential (0)
- Brick (0)
- L’ami de mon amie (0)
- Mission: Impossible 3 (0)
- The Spiral Staircase (0)
- Bringing Out the Dead (0)
- Leave Her to Heaven (0)
- Alice (1)
- Fantastic Planet (0)
- A Scanner Darkly (2)
- Caché (0)
- Superman Returns (0)
- The Devil Wears Prada (0)
- A Scanner Darkly (0)
- Popeye (2)
- 25th Hour (1)
- Dazed and Confused (0)
- Halloween: H20 (0)
- Culloden (0)
- Evolution (0)
- Hard Candy (0)
- Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban (4)
- Carnal Knowledge (0)
- Naked (1)
- Murmur of the Heart (0)
- Wet Hot American Summer (1)
- Superman Returns (2)
- Bringing Up Baby (0)
- Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (0)
- Click (0)
- The Squid and the Whale (0)
- The Harder They Come (0)
- Up! (0)
- Superman Returns (0)
- The Devil Wears Prada (0)
Full Archive
Mission: Impossible 3 / USA / 2006
I dreaded that Abrams might have just used this opportunity to simply create the longest, most-expensive episode of Alias ever (a show I was never all that thrilled with, no matter how much I tried). Instead, Abrams infused the franchise with qualities that it has lacked in the previous two incarnations – namely a genuine sense of urgency and peril. It’s becoming increasingly difficult to ignore the psychosis of Tom Cruise, but Abrams (like a few other directors) understands the key to using Cruise as a movie-star is to allow the audience to watch him constantly suffer, enduring enough stress to create virtual exhaustion, before pulling his character back from the point when that torment becomes excessive. Equally appealing is Philip Seymour Hoffman’s blunt portrayal of the film’s heavy, which is so indifferent and casual at times that it feels as if he’s continually irritated with even being associated with this summer blockbuster. While the dramatic moments veer between surprisingly poignant to utterly tacky, Abrams really is focused on the delivering continuous action. By cranking up the intensity and placing his protagonist in hazardous circumstances, Abrams has fashioned the most engrossing pure summer action blockbuster since Michael Bay’s The Rock (yeah, I said it). Of course, I should admit that I’m completely biased to anything that has Keri Russell involved in it.
by Chiranjit Goswami | Source: Paramount Pictures 35mm Print
18 Jul 2006 1:20 PM | Submit Comment
