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.


December 2007 activity

Total Log Entries: 47

Total Comments: 12


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Beowulf / USA / 2007

Possibly the most dialectically confused film ever made- Ray Winstone’s hero is solid East End, while Crispin Glover’s awesomely pitiable Grendel appears to be speaking Old English. In between you’ve got Anthony Hopkins’ Yank- inflected Welsh, Angelina Jolie’s Polish-Australian-American-General Witch, Robin Wright Penn’s I’m-American-but-trying-not-to-be, and good old John Malkovich, whose accent barely registers because his mouth is too full up with scenery. But it looks sort of pretty, and moves at a lick, so there’s not a great deal to complain about, besides the general weirdness of the whole motion capture thing. Either the technology improves, or this is going to get old pretty fast.

by Tom Huddleston | Source: 35mm Print
20 Dec 2007 9:01 AM | Comments (1)


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  1. Devin / 20 December 2007 / 11:17 AM / URL

    As I was sitting in the theater, 3D glasses firmly affixed to my head, I couldn’t shake the feeling that I had just paid ten dollars to watch a video game.

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