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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Midnight Run / USA / 1988

Proof that De Niro could do comedy, as long as he didn’t try to act like he was doing comedy. Once the mugging started it was all over, but here he’s playing a perfectly convincing dramatic character who just happens to be stuck in a funny movie. Martin Brest is another one of those 80’s directors who just couldn’t function without strict genre constraints (cases in point: Beverly Hills Cop and this vs. Meet Joe Black and- God save us- Gigli). Everything works perfectly here- it’s slick, exciting, likeable and genuinely funny, and populated with great 80’s supporting actors, from Charles Grodin to John Ashton via Yaphet Kotto, Dennis Farina and an inestimably nasal Joe Pantoliano.

by Tom Huddleston | Source: ITV4
21 Sep 2006 11:27 AM | Comments (1)


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  1. wvs / 24 September 2006 / 10:00 AM / URL

    I absolutely agree. Midnight Run is one of the greatest comedies and one the finest De Niro’s performances.

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