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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King Kong / USA/ NZ / 2005
Self indulgence on a truly mammoth scale- the most unnecessary film since Gus Van Sant’s Psycho, King Kong is hugely entertaining but totally empty. You could see it coming, too- The Return Of The King was a messy, overboiled ending to an otherwise excellent saga, but even the basic character work that enlivened that epic sprawl is missing here- Naomi Watts and Adrien Brody are empty shells, and as for Jack Black’s feeble Welles impersonation… he should stick to rockin’. The monkey acts them all off the screen. Jackson’s setpieces are inspired- the brontosaurus chase and the T-Rex attack are ludicrously exciting, action with a sense of speed and dynamism never before seen onscreen- but one can’t shake the feeling that it all could have been done in half the time- in fact, it was.
by Tom Huddleston | Source: DVD
28 Mar 2006 7:13 AM | Submit Comment