{"id":12920,"date":"2023-05-14T14:44:57","date_gmt":"2023-05-14T18:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=12920"},"modified":"2023-05-14T14:47:25","modified_gmt":"2023-05-14T18:47:25","slug":"weekly-movie-roundup-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=12920","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Movie Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"<table>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0023960\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/1-1-217x300.jpg\" alt=\"Double Harness\" width=\"217\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-12921\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/1-1-217x300.jpg 217w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/1-1.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 217px) 100vw, 217px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0089960\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/2-1-195x300.jpg\" alt=\"Vagabond\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-12922\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/2-1-195x300.jpg 195w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/2-1-667x1024.jpg 667w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/2-1-768x1179.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/2-1-1001x1536.jpg 1001w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/2-1-1335x2048.jpg 1335w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/2-1-scaled.jpg 1668w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0077248\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/3-1-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"Blue Collar\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-12923\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/3-1-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/3-1-678x1024.jpg 678w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/3-1-768x1160.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/3-1-1017x1536.jpg 1017w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/3-1-1355x2048.jpg 1355w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/3-1.jpg 1499w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0023960\/\">Double Harness<\/a>, which features a charming but strangely subdued William Powell, often feels rather old-fashioned\u2014although, as a pre-Code movie, sometimes not in the ways you might expect.<\/li>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<li>Criterion calls <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0089960\/\">Vagabond<\/a> &#8220;a splintered portrait of an enigmatic woman,&#8221; and I think that&#8217;s accurate. We know from the first scene where her story is headed, but because it&#8217;s pieced together from the other people she&#8217;s encountered, I&#8217;m not sure we ever really know <em>her<\/em>.<\/li>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0077248\/\">Blue Collar<\/a> is sometimes a little shaggier than I was expecting, and Paul Schrader may not be the best fit for goofy comedy, but the parts of it that work\u2014the honest look at the guys on the line, just trying to get by, and the union that&#8217;s supposed to have their back\u2014really work well.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0070599\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/4-1-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"A Reflection of Fear\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-12924\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/4-1-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/4-1-682x1024.jpg 682w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/4-1-768x1153.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/4-1-1023x1536.jpg 1023w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/4-1-1364x2048.jpg 1364w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/4-1.jpg 1462w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0061826\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/5-1-198x300.jpg\" alt=\"It!\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-12925\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/5-1-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/5-1-675x1024.jpg 675w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/5-1-768x1165.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/5-1.jpg 791w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt14209916\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/6-203x300.jpg\" alt=\"Cocaine Bear\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-12926\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/6-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/6-693x1024.jpg 693w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/6-768x1134.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/6-1040x1536.jpg 1040w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/6-1387x2048.jpg 1387w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/6-scaled.jpg 1733w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<ul>\n<li>There are good actors in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0070599\/\">A Reflection of Fear<\/a>, and they almost give some good performances, but the movie itself is just so slow and ponderous, building, very poorly, to a very bad twist ending.<\/li>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0061826\/\">It!<\/a> is better than its title. Not <em>remarkably<\/em> better, and it feels both cluttered and uneven, but Roddy McDowall is fun to watch.<\/li>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<li>I&#8217;m not going to lie, the bear was maybe my least favorite part of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt14209916\/\">Cocaine Bear<\/a>. I liked it better as a comedy than a horror movie, and it&#8217;s hard to find the CGI bear very funny. (Leaving aside that the &#8220;true story&#8221; on which this is based was basically just &#8220;a bear accidentally ate a bunch of cocaine and it probably died painfully.&#8221;) But, yeah, when the movie is a comedy among the human characters, of which there are too many, it&#8217;s often very darkly funny.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0076451\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/7-195x300.jpg\" alt=\"New York, New York\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-12927\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/7-195x300.jpg 195w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/7-666x1024.jpg 666w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/7-768x1181.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/7-999x1536.jpg 999w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/7.jpg 1027w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt19853258\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/8-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-12928\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/8-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/8-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/8-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/8-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/8-1365x2048.jpg 1365w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/8-scaled.jpg 1707w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/emptymovie-1-206x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"206\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-12502\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/emptymovie-1-206x300.jpg 206w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/emptymovie-1-704x1024.jpg 704w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/emptymovie-1-768x1117.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/emptymovie-1.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 206px) 100vw, 206px\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;I guess we go to &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0076451\">New York, New York<\/a>&#8216; to enjoy the good parts,&#8221; wrote Roger Ebert in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rogerebert.com\/reviews\/new-york-new-york-1977\">his original review<\/a>, &#8220;and spend just a moment regretting the absence of a whole.&#8221; I think I can see what Scorsese was trying to do here, and maybe that <em>would<\/em> have come together if the movie was twice as long, but I mostly didn&#8217;t enjoy this.<\/li>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt19853258\/\">Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie<\/a> is remarkably engaging and honest, not least because of the man at the center of it. He knows he&#8217;s fighting a losing battle but hasn&#8217;t lost his sense of humor and determination to fight.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I also re-watched Disney&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0057546\/\">The Sword in the Stone<\/a>, which is perfectly fine, largely forgettable, although I still really enjoy the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dCKVSPcd8Gs\">wizard&#8217;s duel scene<\/a> quite a lot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Double Harness, which features a charming but strangely subdued William Powell, often feels rather old-fashioned\u2014although, as a pre-Code movie, sometimes not in the ways you might expect. Criterion calls Vagabond &#8220;a splintered portrait of an enigmatic woman,&#8221; and I think that&#8217;s accurate. We know from the first scene where her story is headed, but because &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=12920\">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-12920","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\/12920"}],"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=12920"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12933,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12920\/revisions\/12933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}