{"id":14100,"date":"2025-03-09T13:52:38","date_gmt":"2025-03-09T17:52:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=14100"},"modified":"2025-03-09T13:52:38","modified_gmt":"2025-03-09T17:52:38","slug":"weekly-movie-roundup-110","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=14100","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Movie Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I watched 9 movies last week, and thank goodness not a single one of them was a <em>Pink Panther<\/em> film:<\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0083906\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/1-217x300.jpg\" alt=\"Eureka\" width=\"217\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14091\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/1-217x300.jpg 217w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/1.jpg 599w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 217px) 100vw, 217px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0032671\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Kitty Foyle\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14092\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt28479262\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/3-203x300.jpg\" alt=\"Sing Sing\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14093\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/3-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/3-691x1024.jpg 691w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/3-768x1138.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/3-1037x1536.jpg 1037w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/3-1382x2048.jpg 1382w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/3-scaled.jpg 1728w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;If &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0083906\/\">Eureka<\/a>&#8216; is not completely successful,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rogerebert.com\/reviews\/eureka-1981\">wrote Roger Ebert<\/a>, &#8220;if, indeed, it is sometimes merely silly and often confusing, maybe that&#8217;s the price we pay for Roeg&#8217;s intensity. At least it is never boring.&#8221;<\/li>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<li>If <em>Stage Door<\/em> and now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0032671\/\">Kitty Foyle<\/a> are any indication, I need to watch a lot more Ginger Rogers movies.<\/li>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt28479262\/\">Sing Sing<\/a> is simply told, but with some fantastic, unshowy performances, and honest surprises.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0080421\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/4-203x300.jpg\" alt=\"Battle Beyond the Stars\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14094\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/4-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/4-694x1024.jpg 694w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/4-768x1133.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/4.jpg 1017w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0026529\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/5-198x300.jpg\" alt=\"The Informer\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14095\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/5-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/5-675x1024.jpg 675w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/5.jpg 751w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt32394528\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/6-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"Hell Hole\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14096\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/6-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/6.jpg 604w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<ul>\n<li>There&#8217;s <em>too much<\/em> world-building in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0080421\/\">Battle Beyond the Stars<\/a>, but that&#8217;s a better problem to have than its opposite. The movie can&#8217;t ever shake off being a low-budget, over-stuffed <em>Star Wars<\/em> knockoff, but there&#8217;s just enough silly weirdness in the whole thing to be entertaining.<\/li>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<li>John Ford&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0026529\/\">The Informer<\/a> is extremely melodramatic, but it&#8217;s grounded by Victor McLaglen&#8217;s conflicted performance.<\/li>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<li>I love that the Adams Family make horror movies together, though <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt32394528\/\">Hell Hole<\/a> is maybe my least favorite so far. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rogerebert.com\/reviews\/hell-hole-shudder-film-review-2024\">As Brian Tallerico writes<\/a>, &#8220;it&#8217;s kind of a disappointment&#8221; and &#8220;drain[ed]&#8230;of some of the DIY charm of the other flicks by Adams and Poser.&#8221; There are things to like here,  some fun things the filmmakers get to do with their obviously bigger budget and some funny performances, but it also feels a little hollow, and the ending is a huge disappointment.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0032553\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/7-202x300.jpg\" alt=\"The Great Dictator\" width=\"202\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14097\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/7-202x300.jpg 202w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/7-691x1024.jpg 691w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/7-768x1138.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/7-1037x1536.jpg 1037w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/7-1382x2048.jpg 1382w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/7-scaled.jpg 1728w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 202px) 100vw, 202px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0066049\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/8-201x300.jpg\" alt=\"A Man Called Horse\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14098\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/8-201x300.jpg 201w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/8-686x1024.jpg 686w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/8-768x1147.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/8.jpg 784w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt31193791\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/9-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14099\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/9-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/9-682x1024.jpg 682w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/9-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/9.jpg 999w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<ul>\n<li>There&#8217;s not a lot to say about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0032553\/\">The Great Dictator<\/a> that hasn&#8217;t already been said, but there is nonetheless a lot to say <em>for<\/em> Chaplin&#8217;s bravery in making this film when he did, the bite of his satire, but also the lovely silent gags throughout. By his own admission, it&#8217;s not a movie he could have made only a few short years later, when the true horrors of the Nazi concentration camps were revealed, but for the moment in time it was made, it is an enduring masterpiece.<\/li>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<li>Richard Harris is good in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0066049\/\">A Man Called Horse<\/a>, and there&#8217;s something to be said for how much the film centers around the Sioux, given the time it was made, though it&#8217;s still a little a little disappointing. Not for nothing, <a href=\"https:\/\/screenrant.com\/man-called-horse-movie-trashier-dances-with-wolves\/\"it's been described<\/a> as &#8220;a trashy, b-movie version of <em>Dances With Wolves<\/em>.&#8221;<\/li>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<li>Pamela Anderson gives the best performance of her career in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt31193791\/\">The Last Showgirl<\/a>, which I think I&#8217;d be saying even if I had liked any of her past performances. It&#8217;s revelatory not just because we (maybe unfairly) don&#8217;t expect it from Anderson\u2014she&#8217;s genuinely very good in this sad, complicated movie.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I also re-watched the thoroughly delightful <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0058385\/\">My Fair Lady<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I watched 9 movies last week, and thank goodness not a single one of them was a Pink Panther film: &#8220;If &#8216;Eureka&#8216; is not completely successful,&#8221; wrote Roger Ebert, &#8220;if, indeed, it is sometimes merely silly and often confusing, maybe that&#8217;s the price we pay for Roeg&#8217;s intensity. At least it is never boring.&#8221; If &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=14100\">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-14100","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\/14100"}],"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=14100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14101,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14100\/revisions\/14101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}