{"id":14116,"date":"2025-03-23T13:50:57","date_gmt":"2025-03-23T17:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=14116"},"modified":"2025-03-23T13:50:57","modified_gmt":"2025-03-23T17:50:57","slug":"weekly-movie-roundup-112","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=14116","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Movie Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I watched 6 movies last week:<\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt27367464\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/1-2-203x300.jpg\" alt=\"Kneecap\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14111\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/1-2-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/1-2-691x1024.jpg 691w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/1-2-768x1138.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/1-2-1037x1536.jpg 1037w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/1-2.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt16366836\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2-2-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Venom: The Last Dance\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14112\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2-2-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2-2-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2-2-768x1151.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2-2-1025x1536.jpg 1025w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2-2.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0091295\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/3-2-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Jojo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14113\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/3-2-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/3-2-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/3-2.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<ul>\n<li>A music biopic where the band members play themselves sounds a little dodgy on paper, but the members of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt27367464\/\">Kneecap<\/a> acquit themselves well. The movie is goofy and pointed and entertaining.<\/li>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<li>There&#8217;s something of a critical consensus that the first <em>Venom<\/em> movie is kind of lousy and the second one, while not necessarily great, is easily a step up. I would one hundred percent reverse that\u2014I did not enjoy <em>Let There Be Carnage<\/em> even a little\u2014but I would definitely agree with corresponding consensus that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt16366836\/\">Venom: The Last Dance<\/a> is the worst of the three movie. It&#8217;s full of callbacks to plots and characters I remember not at all from the first two installments, back-stories for new characters who otherwise get no development, whiplash shifts in tone, unexciting CGI, and a metric ton of attempted world-building. Tom Hardy sometimes seems like he&#8217;s having fun, but that&#8217;s about all I can say for it.<\/li>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<li>There&#8217;s a lot to admire in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0091295\/\">Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling<\/a>, not least of all Richard Pryor&#8217;s bravery in making it, his sincere willingness to examine his own self-destructive behaviors. The movie is often audacious and imaginative, and if it has a fault, it&#8217;s that you often want it to go even deeper.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt11687002\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/4-2-202x300.jpg\" alt=\"The Outrun\" width=\"202\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14114\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/4-2-202x300.jpg 202w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/4-2-691x1024.jpg 691w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/4-2-768x1138.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/4-2-1037x1536.jpg 1037w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/4-2-1382x2048.jpg 1382w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/4-2-scaled.jpg 1728w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 202px) 100vw, 202px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0065836\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/5-2-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Hi, Mom!\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14117\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/5-2-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/5-2-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/5-2-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/5-2.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1821641\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/6-2-203x300.jpg\" alt=\"The Congress\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14115\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/6-2-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/6-2-694x1024.jpg 694w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/6-2-768x1134.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/6-2.jpg 1016w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt11687002\/\">The Outrun<\/a> doesn&#8217;t have anything novel to say about addiction, but I&#8217;m not sure that anything novel needs to be said. Sometimes all you need are the quiet truths like &#8220;It never gets easy, it just gets less hard.&#8221; Saoirse Ronan is as good as she&#8217;s ever been, as a young woman struggling to find happiness somewhere other than the places that also bring her misery, and the movie never feels anywhere close to trite or cliche.<\/li>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0065836\/\">Hi, Mom!<\/a> is interesting\u2014it&#8217;s one of Brian De Palma earliest films, and one of Robert De Niro&#8217;s earliest performances\u2014but it&#8217;s difficult to say what most, if any, of it is in service to.<\/li>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<li>The second, visually more audacious half of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1821641\/\">The Congress<\/a> is a lot more interesting than the first\u2014especially now that the idea of replacing actors with digital copies seems less prescient and just something studios are actively trying to do\u2014but I&#8217;m also not sure it all coalesces or connects in a fully satisfying way. The movie plays certainly with a lot of interesting ideas, though.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I also rewatched the pretty terrific <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0086879\/\">Amadeus<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I watched 6 movies last week: A music biopic where the band members play themselves sounds a little dodgy on paper, but the members of Kneecap acquit themselves well. The movie is goofy and pointed and entertaining. There&#8217;s something of a critical consensus that the first Venom movie is kind of lousy and the second &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=14116\">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-14116","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\/14116"}],"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=14116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14118,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14116\/revisions\/14118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}