{"id":14417,"date":"2025-11-02T15:09:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T20:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=14417"},"modified":"2025-11-02T15:10:00","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T20:10:00","slug":"14417","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=14417","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Movie Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"<table>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0022827\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1-201x300.jpg\" alt=\"Doctor X\" width=\"201\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-14410\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1-201x300.jpg 201w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1-687x1024.jpg 687w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1-768x1144.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1-1031x1536.jpg 1031w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1-1375x2048.jpg 1375w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1-scaled.jpg 1719w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt32376165\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/2-203x300.jpg\" alt=\"A House of Dynamite\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-14411\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/2-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/2-693x1024.jpg 693w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/2-768x1134.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/2-1040x1536.jpg 1040w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/2.jpg 1050w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0065398\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/3-197x300.jpg\" alt=\"And Soon the Darkness\" width=\"197\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-14412\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/3-197x300.jpg 197w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/3-671x1024.jpg 671w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/3-768x1172.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/3.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 197px) 100vw, 197px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt22207786\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/4-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Red Rooms\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-14413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/4-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/4-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/4-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/4-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/4-1365x2048.jpg 1365w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/4-scaled.jpg 1707w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<ul>\n<li>The science and policework in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0022827\/\">Doctor X<\/a> is a little hokey, but the movie sure does look great.<\/li>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt32376165\/\">A House of Dynamite<\/a> does everything it sets out to do, and does it fairly well, it&#8217;s just kind of a shame it doesn&#8217;t try to do anything more. The movie is very tense but a little hollow.<\/li>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<li>I think the <em>NYT<\/em>&#8216;s Roger Greenspun summed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0065398\/\">And Soon the Darkness<\/a> up well when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1971\/04\/05\/archives\/screen-2-british-girls-and-soon-the-darkness-opens-at-2-theaters.html\">he wrote<\/a>, &#8220;Until the disappearance and for a while afterward everything goes very well toward building tension with understated effects. But eventually, by mere repetition, the understated effects begin to look like poverty of the imagination.&#8221;<\/li>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt22207786\/\">Red Rooms<\/a> is not what I would call an <em>enjoyable<\/em> film\u2014as it stares long and hard into the abyss\u2014but Juliette Gari\u00e9py&#8217;s inscrutably calculated performance is never short of riveting.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0101821\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/5-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Ernest Scared Stupid\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-14414\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/5-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/5-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/5-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/5.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0052602\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/6-192x300.jpg\" alt=\"The Bat\" width=\"192\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-14415\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/6-192x300.jpg 192w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/6-656x1024.jpg 656w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/6-768x1199.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/6-984x1536.jpg 984w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/6-1312x2048.jpg 1312w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/6-scaled.jpg 1640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 192px) 100vw, 192px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt31184028\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/7-203x300.jpg\" alt=\"Together\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-14416\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/7-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/7-691x1024.jpg 691w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/7-768x1138.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/7-1037x1536.jpg 1037w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/7-1382x2048.jpg 1382w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/7-scaled.jpg 1728w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/emptymovie-1-206x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"206\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12502\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/emptymovie-1-206x300.jpg 206w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/emptymovie-1-704x1024.jpg 704w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/emptymovie-1-768x1117.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/emptymovie-1.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 206px) 100vw, 206px\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<ul>\n<li>The problem isn&#8217;t that I find Jim Varney&#8217;s schtick in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0101821\/\">Ernest Scared Stupid<\/a> annoying, it&#8217;s that I don&#8217;t find it remotely funny.<\/li>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0052602\/\">The Bat<\/a> is a little silly, a little oddly convoluted, but Vincent Price is a lot of fun.<\/li>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<li>Like a lot of good horror, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt31184028\/\">Together<\/a> does the very simple thing of taking a metaphor to its extreme and gory conclusion.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I also re-watched <a href=\"\">Doctor Sleep<\/a>, though this time around the slightly longer director&#8217;s cut. I&#8217;m too far removed from my original watch of the theatrical cut to say if it&#8217;s any better, but it felt much the same: a lot that&#8217;s really good, particularly the performances, but also a rushed plot and a fetishizing of Kubrick&#8217;s <em>Shining<\/em> that for obvious reasons isn&#8217;t in King&#8217;s novel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The science and policework in Doctor X is a little hokey, but the movie sure does look great. A House of Dynamite does everything it sets out to do, and does it fairly well, it&#8217;s just kind of a shame it doesn&#8217;t try to do anything more. The movie is very tense but a little &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=14417\">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-14417","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\/14417"}],"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=14417"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14420,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14417\/revisions\/14420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}