{"id":13704,"date":"2024-06-30T14:31:13","date_gmt":"2024-06-30T18:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=13704"},"modified":"2024-06-30T14:32:15","modified_gmt":"2024-06-30T18:32:15","slug":"weekly-movie-roundup-81","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=13704","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Movie Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I watched just 4 movies last week:<\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt20918352\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/1-4-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"Outstanding: A Comedy Revolution\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13701\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/1-4-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/1-4.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0090209\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/2-4-201x300.jpg\" alt=\"Trouble in Mind\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13702\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/2-4-201x300.jpg 201w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/2-4-687x1024.jpg 687w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/2-4-768x1145.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/2-4-1030x1536.jpg 1030w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/2-4-1373x2048.jpg 1373w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/2-4-scaled.jpg 1717w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt18077924\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/3-4-203x300.jpg\" alt=\"Poolman\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/3-4-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/3-4-691x1024.jpg 691w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/3-4-768x1138.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/3-4-1037x1536.jpg 1037w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/3-4-1382x2048.jpg 1382w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/3-4-scaled.jpg 1728w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt14407336\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/4-4-203x300.jpg\" alt=\"The Beast\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13703\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/4-4-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/4-4-691x1024.jpg 691w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/4-4-768x1138.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/4-4.jpg 864w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt20918352\/\">Outstanding: A Comedy Revolution<\/a> benefits enormously by being filmed backstage during a night of celebratory comedy\u2014a 2022 Netflix special I haven&#8217;t seen, but which this documentary very much makes me want to watch. The documentary is fun and informative, warm and welcoming, and not afraid to take Netflix to task (by name) for frequently airing non-welcoming, particularly anti-trans comedians.<\/li>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0090209\/\">Trouble in Mind<\/a> is an odd movie\u2014one &#8220;that takes place within our memories of the movies,&#8221; as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rogerebert.com\/reviews\/trouble-in-mind-1986\">Roger Ebert wrote<\/a>, but I feel like I was immediately on movie&#8217;s strange wavelength.<\/li>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt18077924\/\">Poolman<\/a> is an odd movie&#8230;and I feel like I had a much tougher time getting on its wavelength. The movie does a lot of interesting things, often very amiably, but it&#8217;s not difficult to see why a lot of critics absolutely hated it.<\/li>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt14407336\/\">The Beast<\/a>&#8230;is an odd movie&#8230; but also a hauntingly, terrifyingly beautiful one, with a fantastic performance(s?) by L\u00e9a Seydoux. As critic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rogerebert.com\/reviews\/the-beast-film-review-2024\">Glenn Kenny<\/a> writes<\/a>:<br \/>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;There must be beautiful things in this chaos,&#8221; Gabrielle tries to reassure the movie&#8217;s scariest version of Louis at one point. Bonello, and this movie&#8217;s, greatest dread is that someday a terrible order will emerge, one that will make whatever beauty remains disappear.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I watched just 4 movies last week: Outstanding: A Comedy Revolution benefits enormously by being filmed backstage during a night of celebratory comedy\u2014a 2022 Netflix special I haven&#8217;t seen, but which this documentary very much makes me want to watch. The documentary is fun and informative, warm and welcoming, and not afraid to take Netflix &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=13704\">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-13704","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\/13704"}],"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=13704"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13707,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13704\/revisions\/13707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}