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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V For Vendetta / USA / 2005

The critical response to this film in the British press has been savage bordering on psychotic- they simply hate it. I can’t for the life of me understand why- sure, it’s ludicrous, but it’s still an effective, hard hitting slice of politically charged action junk that asks pertinent questions and questions pertinent truths. Natalie Portman was a mistake- her accent is rotten- and Hugo Weaving struggles to act behind the obligatory mask, leaving a central hole that the film struggles to fill. But Stephen Fry is a joy, as is John Hurt, the set design is superb, the action well staged and the plotting tight and speedy. Alan Moore’s novel could have been treated a lot worse than this.

by Tom Huddleston | Source: 35mm Print
28 Mar 2006 7:14 AM | Submit Comment


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