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.
April 2007 activity
Total Log Entries: 50
- Adam (6)
- Andrew (0)
- Chet (0)
- Chiranjit (6)
- David (0)
- Eva (0)
- Evan (0)
- Ian (6)
- Jenny (0)
- Katherine (0)
- Leo (7)
- Megan (0)
- Rumsey (8)
- Teddy (0)
- Thomas (0)
- Timothy (0)
- Victoria (0)
Total Comments: 20
- Grindhouse (0)
- Spider-Man 2.1 (0)
- The Shop Around the Corner (0)
- Chimes At Midnight (3)
- Heavy Weights (0)
- The Bothersome Man (3)
- Blood Diamond (0)
- Starter For Ten (0)
- Ace In The Hole (0)
- Flushed Away (0)
- Sunshine (2)
- Local Hero (0)
- Children Of Men (0)
- The Science of Sleep (0)
- La Kermesse Heroique (0)
- House By The River (0)
- Seraphim Falls (0)
- Eagle vs Shark (0)
- Manhattan (0)
- Year of the Dog (0)
- Kaw (0)
- Grindhouse (2)
- The Philadelphia Story (0)
- Bringing Up Baby (0)
- Purple Rain (2)
- Krapp’s Last Tape (0)
- Hot Fuzz (0)
- The Namesake (0)
- Dial M For Murder (0)
- Sunshine (4)
- Zodiac (1)
- Fast Food Nation (0)
- Labyrinth (0)
- The Second Circle (0)
- Cursed (0)
- The Wind That Shakes the Barley (0)
- The Awful Truth (0)
- Hot Fuzz (1)
- Children of Men (0)
- Stalker (0)
- Advise and Consent (1)
- Gates of Heaven (0)
- The Ox-Bow Incident (0)
- Shoah (0)
- The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (0)
- Piranha (0)
- The Namesake (0)
- Rushmore (1)
- Blades of Glory (0)
- Black (0)
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Hot Fuzz / UK / 2007
I was expecting some near-inevitable sophomore slumpery from this follow-up to Wright & Pegg’s last hilarious fanboy dorkfest, but, a rather tired premise notwithstanding, Hot Fuzz is in fact just as funny and winning as its predecessor. This mostly stems from the filmmakers’ determination to make this as good an example of its genre as a parody of it and, with this in mind, it doesn’t hurt that it perfectly invoking a specific audience’s fetishes: He-Man, Point Break, cozy Britishness, and so on. To its credit, and in sharp relief to a lot of similar comedy on these shores (I’m looking at you, Family Guy), it only rarely pushes these fixations too far and never relies on them wholly. And with judiciously interspersed parodies of those dumb jerky-flashy CSI montages and some surprisingly adept action sequences, the film comes across as something slightly smarter and better crafted than a white, male TV junkie’s wet dream. Slightly, but distinctly.
Bonus points for the inclusion of not one, but two selections from one of the greatest albums ever.
Here’s what Tom had to say.
by Leo Goldsmith | Source: Rogue Pictures 35mm Print
06 Apr 2007 4:38 PM | Comments (1)
Piper / 17 April 2007 / 4:00 PM / URL
I was very happy with their first film and am glad to hear this one is just as good. I have yet to see it but am looking forward to it.