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
- Adam (9)
- Andrew (0)
- Chet (0)
- Chiranjit (3)
- David (0)
- Eva (0)
- Evan (0)
- Ian (5)
- Jenny (2)
- Katherine (0)
- Leo (14)
- Megan (0)
- Rumsey (17)
- Teddy (0)
- Thomas (3)
- Timothy (0)
- Victoria (0)
Total Comments: 44
- Rust Never Sleeps (0)
- Jimmy Houston’s Guide to Bass Fishin’ (0)
- Neil Young: Heart of Gold (0)
- He Who Hits First, Hits Twice: The Urgent Cinema of Santiago Álvarez (0)
- The Ringer (0)
- Anchorman: The Legend Of Ron Burgundy (0)
- V For Vendetta (0)
- King Kong (0)
- Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade (0)
- Hangmen Also Die! (0)
- Night of the Creeps (1)
- Sky High (0)
- King Kong (0)
- Ed Wood (0)
- Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (0)
- Lessons of Darkness (0)
- Fata Morgana (0)
- Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (0)
- Richard III (0)
- The Fog (0)
- Inside Man (18)
- Storytelling (0)
- Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (0)
- Bamboozled (2)
- The Man with Two Brains (1)
- Man With a Plan (0)
- The Whales of August (1)
- Brighton Rock (0)
- The Day After Tomorrow (0)
- The Innocents (0)
- Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire (0)
- Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (0)
- The Red Shoes (0)
- Breakfast on Pluto (0)
- Drawing Restraint 9 (0)
- H Is for House (0)
- Open Water (0)
- Return of the Evil Dead (0)
- The Shaft (0)
- Rooster—Spurs of Death! (0)
- Predator (0)
- Crash (0)
- Vincent (0)
- Brokeback Mountain (0)
- Das Experiment (0)
- A History Of Violence (5)
- The Proposition (0)
- The Girl Next Door (0)
- Malek Khorshid (1)
- Soldiers Pay (0)
- Al Gore Documentary (0)
- The Baxter (0)
- Crash (0)
- The House on Sorority Row (0)
- The Baxter (0)
- Crash (0)
- M. Butterfly (0)
- The Squid And The Whale (8)
- The Road To Guantanamo (0)
- The Defiant Ones (0)
- A History of Violence (1)
- Pride & Prejudice (0)
- Domino (1)
- Palindromes (0)
- Greendale (0)
- Must Love Dogs (0)
- Shopgirl (0)
- The Lavender Hill Mob (0)
- Junebug (0)
- Saw 2 (0)
- Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (0)
- Cremaster 3 (0)
- The Flower Of Evil (0)
- The Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family (1)
- Edvard Munch (0)
- Be Here to Love Me (0)
- La Légende d’Eer (0)
- Enduring Love (0)
- Serenity (0)
- Roger Dodger (0)
- War of the Worlds (0)
- Basic (0)
- Proof (0)
- Fantastic Four (3)
- In A Lonely Place (0)
- The Fly (1)
- Dune (Extended TV Edition) (0)
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The Fog / USA / 2005
Decent and generally faithful remake of the Carpenter/Hill classic offers a well-spun ghost story, creepy special effects, and a young, attractive cast. And the plot here actually makes more sense than the original. Instead of the bizarre insta-relationship between Tom Atkins and the hitchhiking Jamie Lee Curtis, for example, we have the roadside reunion of an established couple. And instead of Tom Atkins suddenly taking it upon himself to save the DJ’s son, we have the DJ’s romantic interest coming to the rescue. In other words, the loose threads of the original are here neatly knotted.
On the other hand, the actors in this updated telling generally lack the charisma of their late ’70s counterparts. From Atkins, Hal Holbrook and John Houseman to Jamie Lee, Janet Leigh, and Adrienne Barbeau, the original cast of The Fog was a colorful bunch that easily outshined the loose plot points. Do we really care that the Atkins/Curtis relationship makes no sense? Of course not. It happens, it’s funny, and that’s enough.
by Thomas Scalzo | Source: OnDemand Cable Feature
26 Mar 2006 1:21 PM | Submit Comment