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)
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The King Of Kong / A Fistful Of Quarters / USA / 2007
If I’d seen this last year, there’s no way Billy Mitchell wouldn’t have made my list of 2007’s cinematic villains. The ultimate manipulator, he seems to rule the world of classic gaming with an iron fist- it doesn’t help that he looks like Satan’s financial advisor and talks like a self help guru with serious esteem issues. But, to Billy’s credit, he does help to make Seth Gordon’s documentary one of the most purely entertaining in recent years: our hero, the hapless and loveable Steve Weibe, would be nowhere without his dark nemesis and his gaggle of fawning, devious followers.
In the press, Gordon has been accused of bias, and it’s possible he veers a little heavily in Weibe’s favour throughout the extraordinary battle of wills which unfolds onscreen. But he also gives his characters the rope necessary to hang themselves, and it’s their own fault that they’re all such expert noosemen.
by Tom Huddleston | Source: DVD
04 Feb 2008 12:39 PM | Comments (1)
Marina / 4 February 2008 / 2:00 PM / URL
“King of Kong” was also one of the most entertaining things I saw last year, and you’re right on, Mitchell certainly hangs himself (though I referred to him as Zod – partly because of his hair). I was really convinced that there was something missing and that the film really was a bit too friendly to the Weibe side but from some of the extra material on the DVD, particularly the various interviews with self proclaimed Mitchell BFF Steve Sanders, only further suggest that Mitchell is not exactly the nice guy done wrong I was worried the film had turned him into.
However you cut it, a wonderfully fun documentary.