{"id":14108,"date":"2025-03-16T11:02:34","date_gmt":"2025-03-16T15:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=14108"},"modified":"2025-03-16T11:02:34","modified_gmt":"2025-03-16T15:02:34","slug":"weekly-movie-roundup-111","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=14108","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Movie Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I watched just 6 movies last week:<\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0110939\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/1-1-183x300.jpg\" alt=\"Radioland Murders\" width=\"183\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14102\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/1-1-183x300.jpg 183w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/1-1-623x1024.jpg 623w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/1-1-768x1262.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/1-1-935x1536.jpg 935w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/1-1-1247x2048.jpg 1247w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/1-1.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 183px) 100vw, 183px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0100911\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2-1-197x300.jpg\" alt=\"Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael\" width=\"197\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14103\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2-1-197x300.jpg 197w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2-1-673x1024.jpg 673w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2-1-768x1168.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2-1.jpg 986w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 197px) 100vw, 197px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0051196\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/3-1-198x300.jpg\" alt=\"Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14104\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/3-1-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/3-1-674x1024.jpg 674w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/3-1-768x1166.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/3-1-1012x1536.jpg 1012w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/3-1-1349x2048.jpg 1349w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/3-1-scaled.jpg 1686w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rogerebert.com\/reviews\/radioland-murders-1994\">Roger Ebert<\/a> described <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0110939\/\">Radioland Murders<\/a> as &#8220;all action and no character, all situation and no comedy.&#8221; There&#8217;s simply too much going on here, and almost none of it is particularly funny.<\/li>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<li>There are several movies competing for attention in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0100911\/\">Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael<\/a>. The best of them is the one starring Wynona Ryder, but none of the movies are very good, and they collide against one another in bewilderingly unsatisfying ways.<\/li>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<li>Its satire has lost more than some of its bite, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0051196\/\">Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?<\/a> is still often amusing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0044128\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/4-1-198x300.jpg\" alt=\"Thunder on the Hill\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14105\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/4-1-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/4-1-675x1024.jpg 675w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/4-1-768x1166.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/4-1-1012x1536.jpg 1012w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/4-1-1349x2048.jpg 1349w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/4-1-scaled.jpg 1686w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0089346\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/5-1-197x300.jpg\" alt=\"Into the Night\" width=\"197\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14106\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/5-1-197x300.jpg 197w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/5-1-673x1024.jpg 673w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/5-1-768x1169.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/5-1-1009x1536.jpg 1009w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/5-1-1346x2048.jpg 1346w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/5-1.jpg 1485w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 197px) 100vw, 197px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt3513548\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/6-1-203x300.jpg\" alt=\"Richard Jewell\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14107\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/6-1-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/6-1.jpg 648w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0044128\/\">Thunder on the Hill<\/a> may not have the lush Technicolor of later Douglas Sirk movies, but it has all the exciting melodrama you expect.<\/li>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rogerebert.com\/reviews\/into-the-night-1985\">Roger Ebert<\/a> called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0089346\/\">Into the Night<\/a> &#8220;a fitfully funny, aimless, unnecessary thriller.&#8221; I would argue only with the &#8220;funny&#8221; part of that, not the &#8220;fitfully.&#8221; I can&#8217;t remember the last time I was this bored and confused by what&#8217;s ostensibly a comedy.<\/li>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<li>There&#8217;s some question about how the movie treats its other real-life characters, most notably reporter Kathy Scruggs, but Clint Eastwood&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt3513548\/\">Richard Jewell<\/a> is well crafted and features a legitimately breakout performance by Paul Walter Hauser.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I also somewhat randomly re-watched <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0313542\/\">Runaway Jury<\/a>. It isn&#8217;t the best Gene Hackman movie. It isn&#8217;t the best John Grisham adaptation. It isn&#8217;t even the best John Grisham adaptation starring Gene Hackman. But it&#8217;s a dumb freight train of a movie, and surprisingly still fun on rewatch even when I knew exactly where it was headed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I watched just 6 movies last week: Roger Ebert described Radioland Murders as &#8220;all action and no character, all situation and no comedy.&#8221; There&#8217;s simply too much going on here, and almost none of it is particularly funny. There are several movies competing for attention in Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael. The best of them is &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=14108\">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-14108","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\/14108"}],"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=14108"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14109,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14108\/revisions\/14109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}