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

Total Comments: 23


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Predator / USA / 1987

Probably the best, certainly the most economical, of Schwarzenegger’s ’80s action films. This is only John McTiernan’s second film (followed in ‘88 by Die Hard) and already the diligent auteurist can spot his hallmarks: tight, jarring compositions, lens flares, and exploding helicopters. But this is Arnold’s film, as anyone can discern from the shot of the mud-caked Austrian Oak, holding aloft a lighted torch and screaming primitively. (This shot, I’m told by a Nashvillean, is played at Nashville Predators games to rally the fans.)

And yes, that’s Lethal Weapon screenwriter Shane Black as the bespectacled Hawkins, who’s killed first.

by Leo Goldsmith | Source: 20th Century Fox DVD
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