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.


January 2007 activity

Total Log Entries: 84

Total Comments: 32


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Miami Vice / Director’s Cut / USA / 2006

I have never greatly admired a Michael Mann film. Most all of them are wildly bombastic, grossly self-assured crime thrillers, and among them Miami Vice is the most wildly bombastic and the most grossly self-assured. Colin Farrell’s sand-coated larynx is to make you think he’s talked his way through a lifetime of drug stings, and Jaime Foxx’s gestures of calm (they look like he waves both hands down with a determination you’ve seen in no other human being) would instantaneously diffuse the most panicked hostage crises. It’s a great entertainment, to be sure, but I’m not sure the result was intended to be so ridiculous.

Jit’s thoughts | Beth’s thoughts | Leo’s thoughts | (More of) Leo’s thoughts | (More of) Jit’s thoughts

by Rumsey Taylor | Source: Universal Pictures DVD
08 Jan 2007 4:35 PM | Submit Comment


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