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

Total Comments: 20


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Eagle vs Shark / New Zealand / 2007

One of the more enunciated examples of nerd chic, Eagle vs Shark expends roughly its first half embellishing its characters’ irregularity: Lily and Jarrod meet at a party at which one is to come dressed as a favorite animal, hence Eagle vs Shark. The party begins with a videogame contest (a rather outstanding Mortal Kombat mod entitled Fight Man), and ends with a sex scene that is consummated with a hostile prank phone call. (I have not mentioned a fight sequence that involves a crippled man.) It avoids (much of) the exploitation of Napoleon Dynamite and the bitterness of The Science of Sleep in favor for a more formulaic romantic resolution, which innovative within this company of films.

by Rumsey Taylor | Source: Miramax 35mm print
28 Apr 2007 11:27 AM | Submit Comment


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