{"id":14363,"date":"2025-09-21T13:45:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T17:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=14363"},"modified":"2025-09-21T13:46:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T17:46:08","slug":"weekly-movie-roundup-138","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=14363","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Movie Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I watched just 5 movies last week:<\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0089160\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1-2-192x300.jpg\" alt=\"Fool for Love\" width=\"192\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-14364\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1-2-192x300.jpg 192w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1-2-656x1024.jpg 656w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1-2-768x1198.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1-2.jpg 896w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 192px) 100vw, 192px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0091396\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/2-2-198x300.jpg\" alt=\"Legal Eagles\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-14365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/2-2-198x300.jpg 198w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/2-2.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0037101\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/3-2-201x300.jpg\" alt=\"Murder My Sweet\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-14366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/3-2-201x300.jpg 201w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/3-2.jpg 507w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0105597\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/4-2-201x300.jpg\" alt=\"Timebomb\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-14367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/4-2-201x300.jpg 201w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/4-2-685x1024.jpg 685w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/4-2-768x1149.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/4-2-1027x1536.jpg 1027w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/4-2-1369x2048.jpg 1369w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/4-2.jpg 1467w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0069946\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/5-2-201x300.jpg\" alt=\"The Day of the Dolphin\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-14368\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/5-2-201x300.jpg 201w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/5-2-686x1024.jpg 686w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/5-2-768x1146.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/5-2-1029x1536.jpg 1029w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/5-2.jpg 1319w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0089160\/\">Fool for Love<\/a> feels a little like Robert Altman doing David Lynch, which is no less weird than this being a Cannon Films production. Oddly dreamlike, even hallucinatory, I&#8217;m not entirely sure it works, or even how it&#8217;s <em>supposed<\/em> to, but there&#8217;s an undeniably interesting vibe to everything.<\/li>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<li>The actors, particularly Redford and Winger, are a lot better than the plot in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0091396\/\">Legal Eagles<\/a>, of which there is far too much, and little of which makes much sense.<\/li>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0037101\/\">Murder My Sweet<\/a> is a pretty decent film noir that takes some interesting turns.<\/li>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0105597\/\">Timebomb<\/a> is the low-rent &#8217;90s direct-to-DVD version of <em>The Bourne Identity<\/em>. Sometimes that works, sometimes not so much.<\/li>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0069946\/\">The Day of the Dolphin<\/a> is such a strange movie\u2014and not just because it&#8217;s a sci-fi thriller written by Buck Henry and directed by Mike Nichols, of all people. It&#8217;s at times deeply boring, and yet its goofy plot and strong performances also make it very compelling at times. I genuinely couldn&#8217;t tell if the whole thing was good or bad.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I also rewatched <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0068502\/\">Dr Jekyll &#038; Sister Hyde<\/a>, as part of <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/hashtag\/HorrorWatch\">#HorrorWatch<\/a> on Bluesky. The movie remains a lot better and less problematic than you might expect a 1971 gender-swapping Hammer Films adaptation of the Robert Louis Stevenson story to go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I watched just 5 movies last week: Fool for Love feels a little like Robert Altman doing David Lynch, which is no less weird than this being a Cannon Films production. Oddly dreamlike, even hallucinatory, I&#8217;m not entirely sure it works, or even how it&#8217;s supposed to, but there&#8217;s an undeniably interesting vibe to everything. &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=14363\">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-14363","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\/14363"}],"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=14363"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14370,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14363\/revisions\/14370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}