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 2008 activity

Total Log Entries: 53

Total Comments: 41

Full Archive

Advertisements

Dreamcatcher / USA / 1993

Recommended in Nathan Rabin’s wonderful “My Year of Flops” at the AV Club (this is #82), Dreamcatcher is an overreaching and often riotously funny film that includes from what I can tell every cliché particular to Stephen King’s writing. At least, watch it for the scene in which Thomas Jane uses a loaded pistol as a telephone to communicate telepathically with is friend who is literally hiding from an alien in his mind, which resembles a rather rustic and populated library. Get it? A library = thoughts and knowledge, and an alien is in there because it’s looking to steal the man’s knowledge.

by Rumsey Taylor | Source: Universal Studios DVD
10 Jan 2008 12:47 PM | Comments (1)

Comments / 1 total / Submit Comment

  1. Rumsey / 23 January 2008 / 8:15 AM / URL

    Mr. Rabin (sort of) concludes ‘My Year of Flops’:

    When I turned in my first My Year Of Flops Case File, an 800-word write-up of Elizabethtown, A.V. Club editor Keith Phipps said “They aren’t all going to be this long, are they?” “Oh, heavens no,” I assured him. And they weren’t. Instead, the average My Year Of Flops entry quickly ballooned into a wildly digressive 2,000-word comic essay heavy on autobiographical asides, running jokes, pop-culture references, borderline nonsensical recurring characters, and oceans of decontextualized bad-movie dialogue. If nothing else, “My Year Of Flops” stands as one of the most complete repositories of out-of-context bad-movie dialogue known to man.

    More

Submit Comment

Please note that your email address will never be displayed on this page.

HTML is enabled; line breaks (<br />) and paragraphs (<p>) are automatically converted. Apostrophes, ellipses, em- and en-dashes, and quotes are also automatically formatted.

Recent Updates