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.


October 2006 activity

Total Log Entries: 57

Total Comments: 43


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Happy Gilmore / USA / 1996

“What? Friends listen to Endless Love in the dark!”

In the UK, Adam Sandler is far from ubiquitous, so it’s easier to get away with being a fan. Punch Drunk Love aside, I think this is my favourite. Too often with Sandler (and a lot of other modern American comedians, from Jack Black to Will Ferrell) you get the feeling if they’d just tried that little bit harder, it could’ve been something truly special. Happy Gilmore is one of the ones that works. It may lack the heart and (relative) intelligence of The Wedding Singer, but it’s just incredibly funny and charming. From Ben Stiller’s Nazi resthome attendant to Christopher McDonald as shit- eating Shooter McGavin, the whole thing’s just an effortless pleasure.

by Tom Huddleston | Source: Channel 4
02 Oct 2006 11:25 AM | Comments (1)


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  1. Chiranjit / 2 October 2006 / 1:04 PM / URL

    “You could trouble me for a warm glass of Shut-the-Hell-Up! Now you will go to sleep or I will put you to sleep. Check out the name-tag… you’re in my world now, Grandma.”

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