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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 2006 activity

Total Log Entries: 67

Total Comments: 30

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Fun with Dick and Jane / USA / 2005

As a Jim Carrey vehicle intended to spoof semi-recent corporate scandals (Enron, ImClone, and WorldCom execs are thanked by name in the credits), this is neither as irritating nor as clever as it might have been. Still, especially in its first half, it’s a fairly funny movie (if you can take Carrey) that refrains from taking its plot contrivances or moralisms too seriously. And there isn’t a Wilson in sight.

If one really needs to see a film that takes up this subject for yuk-fodder, Spike Lee’s She Hate Mefar more interesting, intelligent, and idiosyncratic.

by Leo Goldsmith | Source: Columbia/Tristar 35mm Print
23 Jan 2006 4:51 PM | Comments (3)

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  1. John / 25 January 2006 / 9:01 AM

    Ugh, “She Hate Me” was unbearable.

  2. leo / 25 January 2006 / 5:45 PM / URL

    Yes, like most (if not all) of Spike Lee’s films, it is probably unbearable to many. But in its glibness and its many awkward moments, there is nonetheless an intelligence and a simple willingness to engage with politics — both very uncommon in American films these days.

  3. leo / 24 March 2006 / 2:26 PM / URL

    For those still curious, this is the reason I watched, not one, but two Funs with Dick and Jane in January.

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