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.


September 2006 activity

Total Log Entries: 51

Total Comments: 37


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Inside Man / USA / 2006

As engaging as it is to decipher the scheme of the band of thieves that rob an elite Manhattan bank before the final act will elucidate their motivations, it is more so to locate the sparing aspects of this film that are the product of Spike Lee’s direction , which is here unfettered by polemics. You’ll find Terence Blanchard’s forgivably intrusive score, Denzel Washington in a tracking shot lifted directly out of Malcolm X, and at least one discriminating cop (“I’d rather be an old bigot than a handsome young corpse,” he remits.) In all, it’s solid escapist entertainment, and an uncharacteristically conservative (if not outright capitalist) effort for Lee.

by Rumsey Taylor | Source: Universal DVD
05 Sep 2006 4:59 PM | Submit Comment


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