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

Total Comments: 22


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Beach Girls / USA / 1982

I, like most film fans, have a guilty pleasure genre. Mine is eighties trash cinema; the kind that HBO, Cinemax, and Showtime ran in infinite loops during my childhood. I never saw Beach Girls the first time around but through the magic of DVD I finally get the pleasure. Everything I love about eighties trash is here: big hair, loose morals, juvenile humor, racial stereotyping, and horrid music. The ultimate message of Beach Girls is that life is a whole lot more enjoyable if you’re stoned and you only care about partying.

Maybe it isn’t a profound or even a very good message but in our age of sanitized cinema and lawsuit-happy parents it feels liberating to watch a film that encourages you to misbehave and reminds you how much fun you’ll have if you do.

by David Carter | Source: BCI Eclipse DVD
05 Feb 2008 11:33 PM | Submit Comment


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