{"id":12631,"date":"2023-01-08T12:25:02","date_gmt":"2023-01-08T17:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=12631"},"modified":"2023-01-08T12:32:07","modified_gmt":"2023-01-08T17:32:07","slug":"weekly-movie-roundup-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=12631","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Movie Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I watched a half dozen movies the first week of 2023.<\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0037365\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/1-1-195x300.jpg\" alt=\"The Thin Man Goes Home\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-12632\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/1-1-195x300.jpg 195w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/1-1.jpg 492w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0035942\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/2-1-194x300.jpg\" alt=\"Girl Crazy\" width=\"194\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-12633\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/2-1-194x300.jpg 194w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/2-1.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 194px) 100vw, 194px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0062190\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/3-1-198x300.jpg\" alt=\"The Reluctant Astronaut\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-12634\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/3-1-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/3-1.jpg 580w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0037365\/\">The Thin Man Goes Home<\/a> can&#8217;t match the earlier films in the series for wit and charm, but William Powell and Myrna Loy are still wonderful together, and this one has a pretty decent mystery.<\/li>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<li>Plots don&#8217;t come much more threadbare than the one in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0035942\/\">Girl Crazy<\/a>. There are brief flashes of some kind of fish-out-of-water, boy-meets-girl, &#8220;hey, gang, let&#8217;s put on a show!&#8221; story around the edges, but it&#8217;s a flimsy excuse for some passably entertaining musical numbers and light comedy.\n<\/li>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0062190\/\">The Reluctant Astronaut<\/a> probably wouldn&#8217;t be half as much fun and winning if it didn&#8217;t have Don Knotts, but it does have Don Knotts, so there we are.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0043660\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/4-1-196x300.jpg\" alt=\"The House on Telegraph Hill\" width=\"196\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-12635\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/4-1-196x300.jpg 196w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/4-1-669x1024.jpg 669w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/4-1-768x1175.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/4-1-1004x1536.jpg 1004w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/4-1.jpg 1046w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 196px) 100vw, 196px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0028355\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/5-1-201x300.jpg\" alt=\"Theodora Goes Wild\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-12636\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/5-1-201x300.jpg 201w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/5-1.jpg 482w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt9764362\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/6-3-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"The Menu\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-12637\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/6-3-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/6-3.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<ul>\n<li>There&#8217;s a nice little noir with some interesting twists in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0043660\/\">The House on Telegraph Hill<\/a>.<\/li>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<li>Irene Dunne is charming and fun in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0028355\/\">Theodora Goes Wild<\/a>.<\/li>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<li>As a satire, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt9764362\/\">The Menu<\/a> is maybe a little toothless (that&#8217;s a pun), but I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s really <i>trying<\/i> to be a satire. What it actually is, is a lot of fun, thanks largely to the performances<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I also re-watched <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0032138\/\">The Wizard of Oz<\/a>\u2014probably the first time I&#8217;ve watched it in decades, and certainly the first time, in full, without Pink Floyd accompaniment. It&#8217;s still pretty delightful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I watched a half dozen movies the first week of 2023. The Thin Man Goes Home can&#8217;t match the earlier films in the series for wit and charm, but William Powell and Myrna Loy are still wonderful together, and this one has a pretty decent mystery. Plots don&#8217;t come much more threadbare than the one &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=12631\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12631","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\/12631"}],"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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12631"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12640,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12631\/revisions\/12640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}