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 2006 activity

Total Log Entries: 87

Total Comments: 44

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Rooster—Spurs of Death! / USA / 1983

“Violent Cockfighting!…There’s More at Stake than Just Money!”

The eighteen-year-old son of a well-known cockfighter prepares for his first big match, all the while learning valuable lessons about life, love, lust, and what it takes to be a man in this world.

Although we don’t get to see any actual cockfighting for about an hour, the engrossing multiple human dramas (including a vertically challenged young man’s obsession with his employer’s vivacious daughter, a father introducing his son to the dangers of loose women, a husband and wife trying to overcome infidelity, and a prostitute determined to make it to Mexico someday) fill the time nicely. Whenever one plotline starts wearing thin, don’t worry, a new one is right around the corner.

And when the cockfighting does start, replete with extensive slow-motion sequences and plenty of disgruntled roosters, the stories converge admirably and all loose ends are tied up. There’s even a blood-soaked shootout in the old cockfighting barn to add an exclamation point to the proceedings.

I can’t believe this movie exists. Watch it if you can.

by Thomas Scalzo | Source: VHS
19 Mar 2006 11:01 AM | Submit Comment

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