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.

July 2007 activity

Total Log Entries: 54

Total Comments: 14

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Spartan / USA / 2004

Val Kilmer’s Scott (a CIA operative, his character is never formally named), just before an impromptu midnight bust, is asked if he’s had enough sleep, and his response (“Irrelevant.”) carries a palpable air of both forthright preparedness and impatience—that it’s a waste of time to even ask him if he’s had enough sleep. It epitomizes him, a man of readily determinable capability; he’s the only type of character that’s sustainable in a film like this, one in which the accused or the setting is prone to change radically and at any given moment. This is a tripwire of a film so taught and undetectable that every one of its thrills is blindsiding.

by Rumsey Taylor | Source: Warner Bros. DVD
05 Jul 2007 11:51 AM | Submit Comment

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