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.


January 2008 activity

Total Log Entries: 53

Total Comments: 41


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Charlie Wilson’s War / USA / 2007

Just what the world needed- a sex comedy about the Taliban. Okay, so that’s a slight exaggeration, but the film does take one of the darkest episodes in recent American political history and turn it into a gay romp through the halls of Washington. Not that there’s anything necessarily wrong with that, it just feels sort of glib and irresponsible.

But once that’s out of the way, there’s plenty to enjoy here, most obviously Philip Seymour Hoffman’s chair-hurling CIA spook, and some snappy banter from the king of same, Aaron Sorkin, who wins back a little of the goodwill he squandered with the excruciatingly smug ‘Studio 60’. If only they’d had the balls to take the subject a little more seriously, we might have had something truly special.

by Tom Huddleston | Source: 35mm print
17 Jan 2008 11:27 AM | Submit Comment


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