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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Step Up 2 the Streets / USA / 2008
Apparently a gender reversal of the first Step Up film (which, criminally, I haven’t seen), Step Up 2 the Streets is a more or less paint-by-numbers film, with a girl from the wrong side of the tracks who tries to make good at Maryland School of the Arts after her mother dies (or is it her sister, brother or best friend?). Of course, she does, eventually, but it’s the getting there that counts, and there is a stable and predictable arc of hard work, self-doubt, and peer-support to save the day and get some dancing done.
And they dance a lot! Step Up 2 the Streets may not reach for any more rarefied strata than those of any other well-coordinated, youth-targeted marketing blast, but if you’re interested in seeing hott twentysomethings pretend to be high school students, get into trouble, empathize across class, racial and gender boundaries, and dance rebelliously, this is your movie.
It’s only a shame that the music isn’t any better and that the editing, as my friend Cynthia noted, makes the whole thing look like a Doritos commercial. In this way, How She Move was a lot better.
by Leo Goldsmith | Source: Touchstone Pictures 35mm Print
21 Feb 2008 2:15 PM | Submit Comment
