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.
February 2008 activity
Total Log Entries: 38
- Adam (6)
- Chet (0)
- Chiranjit (1)
- Cullen (0)
- David (3)
- Eva (4)
- Evan (0)
- Ian (0)
- Jenny (0)
- Katherine (0)
- Leo (4)
- Megan (0)
- Rumsey (4)
- Teddy (0)
- Thomas (5)
- Victoria (1)
Total Comments: 22
- Juno (8)
- Electroma (1)
- The Room (0)
- Grave Robbers (0)
- The Roost (0)
- The Power of Nightmares (0)
- Axe (0)
- The Room (0)
- How She Move (2)
- Step Up 2 the Streets (0)
- The Phynx (0)
- The Oh in Ohio (0)
- Chicago 10 (0)
- Billy the Kid (0)
- The Visitor (0)
- Kisses For My President (0)
- Re-Animator (0)
- There Will Be Blood (3)
- The Ten (3)
- Atonement (0)
- Shoot ‘Em UP (0)
- Beach Girls (0)
- The Satanic Rites of Dracula (0)
- Fried Green Tomatoes (0)
- How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days (0)
- The King Of Kong (1)
- Duck Soup (0)
- The Golden Compass (0)
- Cloverfield (0)
- The Cremator (0)
- Great World Of Sound (0)
- Sweeney Todd (2)
- Throne Of Blood (2)
- Zodiac (0)
- Away From Her (0)
- Reeker (0)
- 27 Dresses (0)
- Subway (0)
Full Archive
Cloverfield / USA / 2007
The Cloverfield backlash seems largely to have been kickstarted by nerdy online fanboys lured by the film’s astonishing first trailer, and hoping beyond reason for a genuinely mindblowing and original cinematic experience. Such hopes were, obviously, naïve in the extreme: this is mainstream Hollywood product, and as such is extremely entertaining and well produced. Like JJ Abrams’ other surprise hit, ‘Lost’, this riffs expertly on familiar themes- in this case monster movies and reality TV. The cast and characters are forgettable, but what makes the film (like the TV series) work is it’s sense of genuine unpredictability- you don’t know who’ll live or die, or how they’ll meet their end. It could probably have ended about five minutes sooner, but as a streamlined, Friday night rollercoaster this works like a charm.
by Tom Huddleston | Source: 35mm print
04 Feb 2008 12:33 PM | Submit Comment
