{"id":13905,"date":"2024-11-24T14:09:46","date_gmt":"2024-11-24T19:09:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=13905"},"modified":"2024-11-24T14:10:15","modified_gmt":"2024-11-24T19:10:15","slug":"weekly-movie-roundup-97","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=13905","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Movie Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"<table>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt18559464\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/1-3-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"My Old Ass\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13902\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/1-3-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/1-3-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/1-3-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/1-3-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/1-3-1365x2048.jpg 1365w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/1-3-scaled.jpg 1707w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt12427158\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/2-3-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"A Thousand and One\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13903\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/2-3-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/2-3.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt22022452\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/3-3-203x300.jpg\" alt=\"Inside Out 2\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13904\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/3-3-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/3-3-691x1024.jpg 691w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/3-3-768x1138.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/3-3-1037x1536.jpg 1037w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/3-3-1382x2048.jpg 1382w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/3-3-scaled.jpg 1728w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt18559464\/\">My Old Ass<\/a> is an often very touching and very funny.<\/li>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<li>The very strong performances in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt12427158\/\">A Thousand and One<\/a>\u2014particularly from Teyana Taylor, Aven Courtney, and William Catlett\u2014really elevate the movie&#8217;s very simple story.<\/li>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<li>If you loved <em>Inside Out<\/em>&#8230;well, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt22022452\/\">Inside Out 2<\/a> is also a movie. It&#8217;s not without its moments of cleverness and sweetness, and there is something to be said for taking seriously the complicated emotions of growing up, especially as a young girl, but the movie feels a lot less essential than the first one.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt16280138\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/4-3-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Magic Mike&#039;s Last Dance\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13906\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/4-3-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/4-3-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/4-3-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/4-3.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0031951\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/5-2-198x300.jpg\" alt=\"Son of Frankenstein\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13907\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/5-2-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/5-2-677x1024.jpg 677w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/5-2-768x1161.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/5-2-1016x1536.jpg 1016w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/5-2-1354x2048.jpg 1354w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/5-2-scaled.jpg 1693w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt27491225\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/6-2-203x300.jpg\" alt=\"Things Will Be Different\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13908\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/6-2-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/6-2-693x1024.jpg 693w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/6-2-768x1134.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/6-2-1040x1536.jpg 1040w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/6-2-1387x2048.jpg 1387w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/6-2-scaled.jpg 1733w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt16280138\/\">Magic Mike&#8217;s Last Dance<\/a> has a lot of charm and several very good dance performances\u2014which is good, because you&#8217;ll arguably see too much of those.<\/li>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0031951\/\">Son of Frankenstein<\/a> doesn&#8217;t necessarily bring anything new to the table (or, er, <em>slab<\/em>), but with Basil Rathbone, Boris Karloff, and Bela Lugosi around, it&#8217;s good fun.<\/li>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt27491225\/\">Things Will Be Different<\/a> doesn&#8217;t quite stick the landing or do enough with its intriguing time-travel premise, but it&#8217;s a tense ride while it&#8217;s happening.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I also re-watched <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0081375\/\">Private Benjamin<\/a>, which is like three or four movies tacked on to each other, not just the funny boot camp comedy I remember. It is funny, thanks largely to Goldie Hawn and Eileen Brennan, but it&#8217;s also a little patchwork.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Old Ass is an often very touching and very funny. The very strong performances in A Thousand and One\u2014particularly from Teyana Taylor, Aven Courtney, and William Catlett\u2014really elevate the movie&#8217;s very simple story. If you loved Inside Out&#8230;well, Inside Out 2 is also a movie. It&#8217;s not without its moments of cleverness and sweetness, &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=13905\">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-13905","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\/13905"}],"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=13905"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13910,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13905\/revisions\/13910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}