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.


October 2006 activity

Total Log Entries: 57

Total Comments: 43


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The Host / Gwoemul / Japan / South Korea / 2006

There’s a wonderful, if insubstantial, subplot in The Host that entails the government’s manipulation of Korean citizens via fear. A mutated, amphibious behemoth leaps out of the Han River in a rampage, killing some and injuring many. The administration is alerted, and they perceive it as an opportunity, deeming the monster’s contact to transfer a deadly virus so that people remain afraid. This action is overshadowed by the finale, forgivably, but The Host endures not only as a fabulous monster movie, but a creative polemic that can surely enamor those waiting out Bush’s second term.

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by Rumsey Taylor | Source: Magnolia Pictures 35MM print
23 Oct 2006 11:09 AM | Submit Comment


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