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.
November 2006 activity
Total Log Entries: 86
- Adam (14)
- Andrew (0)
- Chet (0)
- Chiranjit (1)
- David (0)
- Eva (0)
- Evan (0)
- Ian (19)
- Jenny (9)
- Katherine (0)
- Leo (3)
- Megan (0)
- Rumsey (16)
- Teddy (5)
- Thomas (1)
- Timothy (0)
- Victoria (0)
Total Comments: 48
- Marie Antoinette (3)
- The Fountain (0)
- An Inconvenient Truth (0)
- Lord of the Flies (1)
- Moments choisis des histoire(s) du cinema (0)
- Climates (0)
- J’entends plus la guitare (0)
- Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan (1)
- Pan’s Labyrinth (0)
- My Super Ex- Girlfriend (1)
- The Departed (0)
- The Prestige (1)
- Wordplay (0)
- Cars (0)
- Trust The Man (0)
- You, Me And Dupree (0)
- Talladega Nights: The Ballad Of Ricky Bobby (0)
- Old Joy (0)
- Casino Royale (0)
- A Good Year (0)
- For Your Consideration (1)
- Stranger than Fiction (0)
- Love and Death (0)
- Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome (0)
- Gabrielle (5)
- The Unforgiven (0)
- Klimt (0)
- Flanders (0)
- Candy (0)
- Tough Enough (0)
- Casino Royale (0)
- Half Nelson (0)
- The Fountain (0)
- Funeral Parade of Roses (0)
- Shake Hands with the Devil (0)
- The Departed (11)
- Volver (0)
- The President’s Last Bang (3)
- Liberte, la nuit (0)
- Emergency Kisses (0)
- Demented (0)
- Paraguayan Hammock (0)
- The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes (0)
- Beckett On Film (1)
- House of Games (0)
- Marie Antoinette (1)
- Hotwire (0)
- The Caiman (0)
- Comedy of Power (0)
- Dry Season (0)
- The Rules of the Game (5)
- Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe (1)
- Burden of Dreams (2)
- Wordplay (0)
- A Brief History of Time (0)
- Saw III (0)
- Peking Opera Blues (0)
- Bad Golf My Way (0)
- The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (0)
- The History Boys (0)
- Star Wars: Episode V (1)
- Thank You for Smoking (0)
- Eyes Wide Shut (2)
- Volver (1)
- Aguirre: The Wrath of God (0)
- The Phantom Carriage (0)
- The Stars Look Down (0)
- Homecoming (0)
- Flags Of Our Fathers (0)
- Mr. Death (0)
- Superman (1)
- The Fly (1)
- Wes Craven’s New Nightmare (1)
- Borat (0)
- The Departed (0)
- Saw III (0)
- Borat (1)
- Sophie Scholl – The Final Days (0)
- Meet Me in St. Louis (0)
- Evil Dead II (0)
- In My Skin (0)
- The Woods (0)
- Tideland (0)
- The Wild Blue Yonder (1)
- The Departed (0)
- The Queen (2)
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Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan / USA / 1982
Always a pleasure: a film series finds it’s feet, recognises it’s own iconic nature and goes all out to thrill. The now familiar odd=bad, even=good template was established here, and worked steadily until the godawful Nemesis broke the mould and killed the franchise. But what people seem to miss is that, with the exception of First Contact, all the even entries were either written or directed (or both) by Nicholas Meyer, a man who seems to have done absolutely nothing else of great note in a long, varied and fairly weird career, but who pretty much single-handedly saved the Trek series on no less than three separate occasions. Is there no chance they can bring him back for the next one?
This is the baddest, bloodiest entry in the saga, genuinely frightening for small children (I had earwig nightmares for weeks), and sporting the most satisfying villain of the lot, thanks largely to Ricardo Montalban’s ability to masticate the décor almost as voraciously as the ham- God Shatner. It retains the grandiosity of it’s self- serious predecessor but jettisons the po-face, exulting in it’s own absurdity all the way to the genuinely affecting conclusion.
by Tom Huddleston | Source: Sci-Fi Channel
27 Nov 2006 5:53 PM | Comments (1)
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