{"id":12262,"date":"2020-03-01T18:37:41","date_gmt":"2020-03-01T23:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=12262"},"modified":"2020-03-01T18:37:43","modified_gmt":"2020-03-01T23:37:43","slug":"february-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=12262","title":{"rendered":"February 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"266\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/ESDVrsSXYAEu6-W-1024x266.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/ESDVrsSXYAEu6-W-1024x266.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/ESDVrsSXYAEu6-W-300x78.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/ESDVrsSXYAEu6-W-768x199.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/ESDVrsSXYAEu6-W-1536x398.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/ESDVrsSXYAEu6-W.jpeg 2044w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I went to London with my parents and sister in February. Ostensibly to celebrate my mother&#8217;s 70th birthday earlier in the month, we had a week in the city, visiting local sites like Trafalgar Square, Covent Garden, Westminster Abbey, St. Paul&#8217;s Cathedral, the National Gallery, the Tower of London, and the British Museum. We also took in tea at the Savoy, as well as productions of Shakespeare&#8217;s <em>Taming of the Shrew<\/em> and <em>Phantom of the Opera<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I posted a whole bunch of other photos here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A few random photos from my trip this past week to London <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NxJCeQK53m\">pic.twitter.com\/NxJCeQK53m<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Fred Coppersmith (@unrealfred) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/unrealfred\/status\/1233888245051797504?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 29, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, I read 6 books in February:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"233\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Screenshot-2020-03-01-at-11.53.17-AM-1024x233.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Screenshot-2020-03-01-at-11.53.17-AM-1024x233.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Screenshot-2020-03-01-at-11.53.17-AM-300x68.png 300w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Screenshot-2020-03-01-at-11.53.17-AM-768x175.png 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Screenshot-2020-03-01-at-11.53.17-AM.png 1411w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>This One Summer by Mariko Tamaki<\/li>\n<li>Giant Days (Vol. 1) by John Allison<\/li>\n<li>Zero (Vol. 1) by Ales Kot and others<\/li>\n<li>Bitch Planet (Vol. 2) by Kelly Sue DeConnick and Valentine De Landro<\/li>\n<li>March (Book Two) by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell<\/li>\n<li>Sooner or Later Everything Falls Into the Sea by Sarah Pinsker<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>I didn&#8217;t read as many short stories\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthat week of travel is partly to blame\u00e2\u20ac\u201dbut there were a few I particularly liked:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8211; &quot;Across the Ice&quot; by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/xasymptote?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@xasymptote<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/strangehorizons?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@strangehorizons<\/a>)<br>&#8211; &quot;And All the Trees of the Forest Shall Clap Their Hands&quot; by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pensyf?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@pensyf<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UncannyMagazine?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@UncannyMagazine<\/a>)<br>&#8211; &quot;A Statement in the Case&quot; by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/theodoragoss?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@theodoragoss<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LightspeedMag?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@LightspeedMag<\/a>)<br>&#8211; &quot;A Hench Helps Her Villain, No Matter What&quot; by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/izzyxen?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@izzyxen<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/escapepodcast?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@escapepodcast<\/a>)<\/p>&mdash; Fred Coppersmith (@unrealfred) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/unrealfred\/status\/1234142045171834882?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 1, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p>And I watched 23 movies in February.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Not everything about LAST ACTION HERO is terrible, just most of it. Obviously I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m late to the game on that opinion\u00e2\u20ac\u201dit was a well-publicized bomb in 1993\u00e2\u20ac\u201dbut sometimes you just have to see these things for yourself. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mR7eK7HU3L\">pic.twitter.com\/mR7eK7HU3L<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Fred Coppersmith (@unrealfred) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/unrealfred\/status\/1223985564371865600?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 2, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">PARASITE is wonderfully strange. Not a wholly unexpected thing from a Bong Joon-ho film, but I really liked it a lot. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6r1a91Qeuu\">pic.twitter.com\/6r1a91Qeuu<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Fred Coppersmith (@unrealfred) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/unrealfred\/status\/1223985570017435648?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 2, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not gonna lie, I really liked 1917. Does it have much of anything to say _about_ WWI\u00e2\u20ac\u201dexcept, you know, maybe that it was _bad_? Probably not. But it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s beautifully shot and genuinely thrilling. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m glad I saw it in theaters. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RgLyUevsUH\">pic.twitter.com\/RgLyUevsUH<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Fred Coppersmith (@unrealfred) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/unrealfred\/status\/1226552800173228033?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 9, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Cocteau\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s BEAUTY AND THE BEAST is full of sublime beauty shining through its low-fi effects. It&#39;s not hard to see how it&#39;s a movie that would have enraptured a young Martin Scorsese or Guillermo del Toro. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/a25epR793x\">pic.twitter.com\/a25epR793x<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Fred Coppersmith (@unrealfred) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/unrealfred\/status\/1226552805399330816?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 9, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The best thing about CAT PEOPLE is the David Bowie song, which doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t play in anything approaching its entirety until the end credits. Managing to be lurid but not sexy, grisly but not very good, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s an unconventional approach, to be sure, to the Val Lewton classic. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9vUUrYnyUS\">pic.twitter.com\/9vUUrYnyUS<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Fred Coppersmith (@unrealfred) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/unrealfred\/status\/1226552810579218433?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 9, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Antonio Banderas is fantastic and heartbreaking in PAIN AND GLORY. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NKZbS0uluW\">pic.twitter.com\/NKZbS0uluW<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Fred Coppersmith (@unrealfred) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/unrealfred\/status\/1226552819978731521?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 9, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">There are a lot of great performances in THE BAD AND THE BEAUTIFUL, not least of all by Kirk Douglas and Lana Turner. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the classic Hollywood story about itself&#8230;but you know, on Oscar weekend, so soon after Douglas\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 death, perhaps you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll indulge me? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/W7iDdqXWYO\">pic.twitter.com\/W7iDdqXWYO<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Fred Coppersmith (@unrealfred) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/unrealfred\/status\/1226552825532030977?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 9, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I LOST MY BODY is a strange and sad and sometimes surprisingly scary journey, completely unique. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SaHtyRLk3G\">pic.twitter.com\/SaHtyRLk3G<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Fred Coppersmith (@unrealfred) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/unrealfred\/status\/1226552830632349697?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 9, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I have a certain strange fondness for Suicide Squad, despite it being an ugly mess of a movie, and a whole lot of that fondness comes from Margot Robbie\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s performance as Harley Quinn. So it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not exactly a surprise that BIRDS OF PREY is a whole lot of fun. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KQeLKJ8EGR\">pic.twitter.com\/KQeLKJ8EGR<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Fred Coppersmith (@unrealfred) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/unrealfred\/status\/1229051240648192002?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 16, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">My only problem with 1968\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s OLIVER\u00e2\u20ac\u201dand I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m going to admit, this might be a big problem for a musical\u00e2\u20ac\u201dis that I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t much like the music. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gWZ9MZgkYY\">pic.twitter.com\/gWZ9MZgkYY<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Fred Coppersmith (@unrealfred) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/unrealfred\/status\/1229051245882748929?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 16, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">FORD V FERRARI is a very good movie. Is it a great movie, or even Oscar-worthy? Maybe not\u00e2\u20ac\u201dit\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s hard to deny the stakes are pretty low or root for the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153underdog\u00e2\u20ac\u009d of the Ford Motor Company\u00e2\u20ac\u201dbut it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s cannily directed, both lead performances, particularly Bale\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s, are terrific. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SDJdmeehm0\">pic.twitter.com\/SDJdmeehm0<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Fred Coppersmith (@unrealfred) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/unrealfred\/status\/1229051251494727687?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 16, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Sidney Poitier notwithstanding, TO SIR, WITH LOVE is not a very good movie. It&#39;s hard to imagine it was even before it felt so dated. If it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s remembered largely for the title song, that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s partly because it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s over-used in the movie, but also because the rest isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t very compelling. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/eK5A8wWVsU\">pic.twitter.com\/eK5A8wWVsU<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Fred Coppersmith (@unrealfred) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/unrealfred\/status\/1229051256628535296?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 16, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE (said George Pal to his bride) is a little boring, to be honest, and its Oscar-winning special effects are more than a little dated. But it has some 1950s sci-fi charms (if few genuinely terrible thrills). <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xXn85PRW9k\">pic.twitter.com\/xXn85PRW9k<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Fred Coppersmith (@unrealfred) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/unrealfred\/status\/1229051261280030720?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 16, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Movies like [BREAKING AWAY] are hardly ever made at all,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d wrote Roger Ebert in his original review; \u00e2\u20ac\u0153when they&#39;re made this well, they&#39;re precious cinematic miracles.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nBgdW5ZGlN\">pic.twitter.com\/nBgdW5ZGlN<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Fred Coppersmith (@unrealfred) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/unrealfred\/status\/1229051266015399937?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 16, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">1982\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s THE ENTITY is an odd and unnerving movie, helped enormously by setting its terrors against the banal, and by the central performance by Barbara Hershey. Martin Scorsese didn&#39;t name it one of his favorite scariest movies for nothing. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jW1yKXZXbI\">pic.twitter.com\/jW1yKXZXbI<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Fred Coppersmith (@unrealfred) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/unrealfred\/status\/1229051270784331779?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 16, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I honestly don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have anything to say about I AM A FUGITIVE FROM A CHAIN GANG, but I enjoyed it. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LVFTO6WTd8\">pic.twitter.com\/LVFTO6WTd8<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Fred Coppersmith (@unrealfred) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/unrealfred\/status\/1234123444075343873?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 1, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">VILLAINS wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t work half as well\u00e2\u20ac\u201dor well at all, maybe\u00e2\u20ac\u201dwithout its cast. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s an entertaining enough black comedy. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/G0Hrikl4Uk\">pic.twitter.com\/G0Hrikl4Uk<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Fred Coppersmith (@unrealfred) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/unrealfred\/status\/1234123445425917952?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 1, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t think you need me to tell you A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM is entertaining, but it is. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AL6YgroMd6\">pic.twitter.com\/AL6YgroMd6<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Fred Coppersmith (@unrealfred) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/unrealfred\/status\/1234123446772211712?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 1, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I started out not enjoying JOJO RABBIT. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m all for making buffoons out of Nazis, but that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s all it appeared to be doing at first\u00e2\u20ac\u201dalmost letting them off the hook with a &quot;get a load of these idiots!&quot; But somewhere along the way, the movie deepened quite a lot for me. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OzseWOAhQD\">pic.twitter.com\/OzseWOAhQD<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Fred Coppersmith (@unrealfred) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/unrealfred\/status\/1234123448374505472?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 1, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Julie Christie is very good in DARLING, for which she won an Oscar, but the movie has since become more than a little dated (if it wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t already at the time), and it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s of more interest as a time capsule than a film. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GUS37i8kgM\">pic.twitter.com\/GUS37i8kgM<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Fred Coppersmith (@unrealfred) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/unrealfred\/status\/1234123450467463169?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 1, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Despite a game cast and of the occasionally well-staged set-piece, 2019\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s CHARLIE\u00e2\u20ac\u2122S ANGELS isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t particularly good. While it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s easily a step up from the 2000 and 2003 versions (of which it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s absolutely determined to be a sequel, not a reboot), that isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t exactly high praise. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KLPG02cRfQ\">pic.twitter.com\/KLPG02cRfQ<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Fred Coppersmith (@unrealfred) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/unrealfred\/status\/1234123451817955329?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 1, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Jessie Buckley gives a fantastic, what-they-used-to-call-star-making performance in WILD ROSE. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Ivu81kzmPh\">pic.twitter.com\/Ivu81kzmPh<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Fred Coppersmith (@unrealfred) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/unrealfred\/status\/1234123453533507584?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 1, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Perhaps the strangest thing about ZOMBIELAND: DOUBLE TAP is that it exists. Can we expect another random sequel to this now-franchise in 2029? It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s entertaining enough for what it is, recreating the barely remembered comedic thrills of the first, but it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s nothing more than that. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/eFWE4p0UBQ\">pic.twitter.com\/eFWE4p0UBQ<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Fred Coppersmith (@unrealfred) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/unrealfred\/status\/1234123455198629890?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 1, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p>And finally, here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the music that was new to me in February:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/videoseries?list=PL62qRURJS1HCN_F_mT_da7zcEt7mZZiR0\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went to London with my parents and sister in February. Ostensibly to celebrate my mother&#8217;s 70th birthday earlier in the month, we had a week in the city, visiting local sites like Trafalgar Square, Covent Garden, Westminster Abbey, St. Paul&#8217;s Cathedral, the National Gallery, the Tower of London, and the British Museum. We also &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=12262\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12262"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12262"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12279,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12262\/revisions\/12279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}