{"id":14350,"date":"2025-09-07T11:13:41","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T15:13:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=14350"},"modified":"2025-09-07T11:13:41","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T15:13:41","slug":"weekly-movie-roundup-136","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=14350","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Movie Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I watched 7 movies last week:<\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0070640\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"Save the Tiger\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-14343\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1-679x1024.jpg 679w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1-768x1158.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1-1019x1536.jpg 1019w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1-1358x2048.jpg 1358w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1.jpg 1499w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0066767\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/2-198x300.jpg\" alt=\"The Anderson Tapes\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-14344\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/2-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/2-674x1024.jpg 674w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/2-768x1166.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/2.jpg 988w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0066927\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/3-196x300.jpg\" alt=\"Cold Turkey\" width=\"196\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-14345\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/3-196x300.jpg 196w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/3-670x1024.jpg 670w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/3-768x1173.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/3.jpg 982w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 196px) 100vw, 196px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<ul>\n<li>Contemporary reviews talk a lot about how <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0070640\/\">Save the Tiger<\/a> wouldn&#8217;t work without the Jack Lemmon performance. Which is a little weird considering that it <em>has<\/em> the Jack Lemmon performance. I agree you probably couldn&#8217;t drop just any actor into this material, but that isn&#8217;t a fault of the material, or just because Lemmon is genuinely so good. His performance is finely calibrated to this material, a character study set against the regret and malaise of 1970s America. It&#8217;s not necessarily a <em>fun<\/em> movie, and it is easy how it could be bad without an actor so good, but I think it does work.<\/li>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0066767\/\">The Anderson Tapes<\/a> is interesting, not least for its eclectic cast, though it&#8217;s mostly a testament to Sidney Lumet&#8217;s skill as a director that the movie is as engaging as it is.<\/li>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0066927\/\">Cold Turkey<\/a> is never exactly <em>funny<\/em>, but its characters, while largely unlikable, are well observed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0075334\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/4-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"To the Devil a Daughter\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-14346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/4-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/4-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/4-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/4.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0069530\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/5-198x300.jpg\" alt=\"Z.P.G.\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-14347\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/5-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/5-677x1024.jpg 677w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/5-768x1162.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/5.jpg 991w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0076161\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/6-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"The Hound of the Baskervilles\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-14348\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/6-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/6-769x1024.jpg 769w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/6-768x1022.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/6.jpg 792w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0052905\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/7-202x300.jpg\" alt=\"The Hound of the Baskervilles\" width=\"202\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-14349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/7-202x300.jpg 202w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/7-690x1024.jpg 690w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/7-768x1140.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/7-1035x1536.jpg 1035w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/7.jpg 1254w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 202px) 100vw, 202px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0075334\/\">To the Devil a Daughter<\/a> is shockingly bad, and if wasn&#8217;t Hammer Films very last movie before going under at the end of the 1970s, oh boy, was it a huge nail in that coffin. The movie approaches hauntingly atmospheric now and then\u2014it&#8217;s definitely trying to do <em>something<\/em>, and it has a much better cast than it deserves\u2014but it&#8217;s so very tedious and over-complicated. And then when I learned that Nastassja Kinski, who briefly (and needlessly) appears fully nude, was only fourteen at the time, I really hated this film.<\/li>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0069530\/\">Z.P.G.<\/a> is a 1970s sci-fi movie you&#8217;ve probably never heard of. I&#8217;d recommend keeping it that way. Everybody involved, from the actors to the audience, walks through it half-comatose.<\/li>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<li>Peter Cook and Dudley Moore&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0076161\/\">The Hound of the Baskervilles<\/a> is one of the laziest, muddled, and unfunniest chores of a comedy I&#8217;ve ever sat through.<\/li>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<li>1959&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0052905\/\">The Hound of the Baskervilles<\/a>, on the other hand, is a delight. It&#8217;s arguably more Hammer Horror than Sherlock Holmes, but with Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee on hand, the movie is a whole lot of fun.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I also rewatched <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0060438\/\">A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum<\/a>. I think I&#8217;d forgotten just how silly and Richard Lesteresque the movie is, but it&#8217;s good goofy fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I watched 7 movies last week: Contemporary reviews talk a lot about how Save the Tiger wouldn&#8217;t work without the Jack Lemmon performance. Which is a little weird considering that it has the Jack Lemmon performance. I agree you probably couldn&#8217;t drop just any actor into this material, but that isn&#8217;t a fault of the &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=14350\">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-14350","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\/14350"}],"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=14350"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14351,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14350\/revisions\/14351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}