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.
March 2007 activity
Total Log Entries: 60
- Adam (12)
- Andrew (0)
- Chet (0)
- Chiranjit (2)
- David (0)
- Eva (0)
- Evan (0)
- Ian (0)
- Jenny (0)
- Katherine (0)
- Leo (11)
- Megan (0)
- Rumsey (1)
- Teddy (0)
- Thomas (5)
- Timothy (0)
- Victoria (0)
Total Comments: 32
- Hands Across the Table (0)
- 300 (0)
- It’s All Gone Pete Tong (0)
- The Earrings of Madame de… (0)
- Zodiac (0)
- The Earrings of Madame de… (2)
- Sympathy for Lady Vengeance (0)
- The Wrong Guy (0)
- The Host (0)
- Stakeout (0)
- Tenacious D in The Pick Of Destiny (0)
- The Queen (1)
- Goodfellas (2)
- Pretty Woman (0)
- The Host (0)
- Zombi 3 (0)
- Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon (0)
- The Brood (1)
- Idiocracy (0)
- Tideland (0)
- 300 (3)
- Zombie (0)
- Hands Across the Table (0)
- Away From Her (0)
- They All Laughed (1)
- Checking Out (0)
- Capote (0)
- My Favorite Wife (0)
- Bullitt (1)
- Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter… and Spring (0)
- The Hidden (0)
- The Thing (0)
- The Host (1)
- Red Road (0)
- Notes On A Scandal (0)
- Inland Empire (7)
- I Confess (0)
- 300 (2)
- Fox & His Friends (0)
- Lamp (0)
- Boat (0)
- Industrial Soundscape (0)
- The Fly (0)
- The Prestige (2)
- A Perfect Candidate (0)
- A Texas Funeral (0)
- Little Dieter Needs to Fly (0)
- Moulin Rouge! (0)
- Starter for Ten (0)
- La Vie en Rose (1)
- Music and Lyrics (1)
- Into Great Silence (0)
- Kingdom Of Heaven (1)
- The Good Shepherd (0)
- Point Break (0)
- The Devil Wears Prada (1)
- Hot Fuzz (4)
- Talladega Nights (0)
- Music And Lyrics (0)
- A History of Violence (1)
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The Hidden / USA / 1987
Round Three of my unofficial monster movie triple feature (accidentally featuring films whose titles all are The ________).
I ask you: What more can you possibly require of a movie than a slimy, grey, sluglike alien, roughly the size of a large dachshund, that inhabits people’s bodies through their mouths and loves Ferraris, hookers, rock music, and killing people? With a bazooka?
For some reason, I hadn’t seen this film in full since its original video release, which was itself contemporary with my Twin Peaks obsession. Here, Kyle MacLachlan is a differently weird FBI guy — that is, an alien one — and instead of flashlighting the murky forests of the PNW with Michael Ontkean (a poor man’s Tom Berenger), he plods the streets of LA with Michael Nouri (a poor man’s Michael Ontkean).
And I’m happy to report that the film has lost nothing of its entertainment value, and watching it now, the distinct patina of 1987 Los Angeles only enhances its essential comedy and mindboggling gratuity (snorting cocaine in the back offices of a Ferrari dealership being the definitive mark of human awesomeness). This is unmistakably the work of a master of the cinematic arts (all two or three of ‘em!), so it is a wonder that, to my knowledge, Jack Sholder is the director of only one other film masterpiece.
by Leo Goldsmith | Source: New Line Home Video VHS (Two-Cassette Special Edition!)
13 Mar 2007 4:26 PM | Submit Comment