{"id":13872,"date":"2024-10-27T12:40:35","date_gmt":"2024-10-27T16:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=13872"},"modified":"2024-10-27T12:40:35","modified_gmt":"2024-10-27T16:40:35","slug":"triweekly-movie-roundup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=13872","title":{"rendered":"(Tri)weekly Movie Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was traveling in Italy recently, so it&#8217;s been a while. But I&#8217;ve watched 12 movies since the last roundup:<\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt23468450\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/1-1-202x300.jpg\" alt=\"Longlegs\" width=\"202\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13858\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/1-1-202x300.jpg 202w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/1-1-691x1024.jpg 691w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/1-1-768x1138.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/1-1-1037x1536.jpg 1037w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/1-1-1382x2048.jpg 1382w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/1-1-scaled.jpg 1728w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 202px) 100vw, 202px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt27802490\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/2-1-210x300.jpg\" alt=\"Exhuma\" width=\"210\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13860\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/2-1-210x300.jpg 210w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/2-1-717x1024.jpg 717w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/2-1-768x1097.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/2-1-1076x1536.jpg 1076w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/2-1.jpg 1434w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt23778968\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/3-1-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Thelma\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13861\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/3-1-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/3-1-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/3-1-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/3-1-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/3-1.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<ul>\n<li>It maybe is a victim of all its own hype, but I found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt23468450\/\">Longlegs<\/a> to be somewhat oddly disappointing. Exceptionally creepy and well made, to be sure, with plenty of very good and unsettling performances, but a little thinner in the story, both in terms of plot and thematically, than I might have hoped.<\/li>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<li>The number of times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt27802490\/\">Exhuma<\/a> feels like it&#8217;s reached a safe and satisfying conclusion only to fully ramp up and reveal new scares is genuinely impressive.<\/li>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt23778968\/\">Thelma<\/a> is delightful, both silly and tenderhearted. A lot of that is due to an incredibly winning performance by June Squibb, but the supporting cast is also universally good\u2014particularly Richard Roundtree in his final feature film.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt14577874\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/4-1-203x300.jpg\" alt=\"It&#039;s What&#039;s Inside\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13862\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/4-1-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/4-1-691x1024.jpg 691w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/4-1-768x1138.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/4-1-1037x1536.jpg 1037w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/4-1-1383x2048.jpg 1383w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/4-1.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0080903\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/5-1-202x300.jpg\" alt=\"The Human Factor\" width=\"202\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13869\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/5-1-202x300.jpg 202w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/5-1.jpg 650w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 202px) 100vw, 202px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt7737800\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/6-1-203x300.jpg\" alt=\"Woman of the Hour\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13863\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/6-1-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/6-1-692x1024.jpg 692w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/6-1-768x1137.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/6-1.jpg 1013w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<ul>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt14577874\/\">It&#8217;s What&#8217;s Inside<\/a> plays with some interesting ideas and takes some clever turns, but it doesn&#8217;t quite hold together as well as I might have liked.<\/li>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<li>Maybe as quiet and understated as a spy thriller can be, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0080903\/\">The Human Factor<\/a> boasts some very good performances, notably by Nicol Williamson.<\/li>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt7737800\/\">Woman of the Hour<\/a> is remarkably assured for Anna Kendrick&#8217;s first film as director. If it doesn&#8217;t say anything especially <em>novel<\/em> about violence against women, the film does a fantastic job of placing its focus on the victims of that violence, and not the man who perpetrated the crimes. The framing of the story is a little odd\u2014in reality, Rodney Alcala&#8217;s appearance on <em>The Dating Game<\/em> is not much more than a weird footnote to this true crime story\u2014but this is a very effective film, and I look forward to more from Kendrick as director.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt9860566\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/7-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Brothers\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13864\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/7-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/7-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/7-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/7-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/7-1365x2048.jpg 1365w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/7-scaled.jpg 1707w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0046878\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/8-197x300.jpg\" alt=\"Crime Wave\" width=\"197\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13865\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/8-197x300.jpg 197w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/8-673x1024.jpg 673w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/8-768x1168.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/8-1010x1536.jpg 1010w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/8-1346x2048.jpg 1346w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/8-scaled.jpg 1683w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 197px) 100vw, 197px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0029747\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/9-194x300.jpg\" alt=\"Way Out West\" width=\"194\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13866\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/9-194x300.jpg 194w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/9-662x1024.jpg 662w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/9-768x1189.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/9-992x1536.jpg 992w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/9-1323x2048.jpg 1323w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/9-scaled.jpg 1654w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 194px) 100vw, 194px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<ul>\n<li>At best fitfully amusing, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt9860566\/\">Brothers<\/a> squanders the talents of Brolin and Dinklage in what is somehow both an overwritten and entirely predictable pale imitation of a Coen Brothers movie.<\/li>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0046878\/\">Crime Wave<\/a> does exactly what it says on the tin. It&#8217;s a simple but effective noir.<\/li>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<li>Laurel and Hardy are amusing, but there&#8217;s maybe not enough of that for a full-length feature, even one as short as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0029747\/\">Way Out West<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0067486\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/10-198x300.jpg\" alt=\"The Night Digger\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13867\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/10-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/10-675x1024.jpg 675w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/10-768x1165.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/10.jpg 780w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0046876\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/11-197x300.jpg\" alt=\"Creature from the Black Lagoon\" width=\"197\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13870\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/11-197x300.jpg 197w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/11.jpg 658w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 197px) 100vw, 197px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt22375054\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/12-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Strange Darling\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13868\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/12-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/12-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/12-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/12-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/12-1365x2048.jpg 1365w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/12-scaled.jpg 1707w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<ul>\n<li>An underrated gem, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0067486\/\">The Night Digger<\/a> owes a lot to the central performance by Patricia Neal.<\/li>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0046876\/\">Creature from the Black Lagoon<\/a> never feels like anything other than a man in a rubber suit, but it&#8217;s a well designed rubber suit, and there are some genuinely creepy moments in this otherwise silly and dated monster feature.<\/li>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<li>The less you know about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt22375054\/\">Strange Darling<\/a> going in, the better. But it&#8217;s a fun and wicked ride.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I also re-watched George Romero&#8217;s original <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0063350\/\">Night of the Living Dead<\/a>. They&#8217;re coming to get you, Barbara!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was traveling in Italy recently, so it&#8217;s been a while. But I&#8217;ve watched 12 movies since the last roundup: It maybe is a victim of all its own hype, but I found Longlegs to be somewhat oddly disappointing. Exceptionally creepy and well made, to be sure, with plenty of very good and unsettling performances, &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=13872\">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-13872","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\/13872"}],"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=13872"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13873,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13872\/revisions\/13873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}