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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Little Children / USA / 2006

Had the director gotten rid of the absurdly superfluous voice-over, this movie might have been somewhat watchable, but as it is, the film reeks of smug condescension and boasts a dreadful ending that encourages viewers to feel sympathy for the local sex offender while simultaneously cheering on the fact that he, um, won’t be striking again.

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by Beth Gilligan | Source: New Line 35mm print
30 Oct 2006 1:30 PM | Comments (1)

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  1. rob / 6 December 2006 / 4:09 AM / URL

    Interesting perspective in these comments. I myself liked how the movie turned the tables, if only for some moral social theorizing (frankly, by demonizing housewives and sympathizing with child molestors, I think the movie outdoes Crash as far as goes questioning stereotypes); I myself am very keen on recognizing the ways in which good people do bad things, and vice versa. By the time Haley castrated himself, however, I think I was beyond trying to like the film, and had settled for simply enduring the remainder of the sermon.

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