{"id":14683,"date":"2026-03-08T14:00:44","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T18:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=14683"},"modified":"2026-03-08T14:01:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T18:01:22","slug":"weekly-movie-roundup-156","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=14683","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Movie Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw 7 movies last week. There was something of a theme until the very end:<\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0208502\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1-1-205x300.jpg\" alt=\"Angel&#039;s Egg\" width=\"205\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-14684\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1-1-205x300.jpg 205w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1-1-700x1024.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1-1-768x1124.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1-1-1050x1536.jpg 1050w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1-1-1400x2048.jpg 1400w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1-1.jpg 1700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 205px) 100vw, 205px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0087193\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/2-1-197x300.jpg\" alt=\"After the Rehearsal\" width=\"197\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-14685\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/2-1-197x300.jpg 197w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/2-1-673x1024.jpg 673w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/2-1-768x1168.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/2-1-1010x1536.jpg 1010w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/2-1-1346x2048.jpg 1346w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/2-1-scaled.jpg 1683w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 197px) 100vw, 197px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt36491653\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/3-1-203x300.jpg\" alt=\"It Was Only an Accident\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-14686\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/3-1-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/3-1-693x1024.jpg 693w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/3-1-768x1135.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/3-1-1040x1536.jpg 1040w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/3-1.jpg 1386w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0056352\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/4-1-196x300.jpg\" alt=\"Planeta bur\" width=\"196\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-14687\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/4-1-196x300.jpg 196w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/4-1.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 196px) 100vw, 196px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<ul>\n<li>Upon seeing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0208502\/\">Angel&#8217;s Egg<\/a>, Hayao Miyazaki reportedly said it was &#8220;not something others would understand.&#8221; I&#8217;m not sure understanding is what the movie wants or expects, but he wasn&#8217;t wrong. It&#8217;s intriguing, often stunningly animated, but I could not for the life of me tell you what it&#8217;s supposed to be about.<\/li>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0087193\/\">After the Rehearsal<\/a> feels like a meditation on sadness and the end of a life\u2014I know, a shock for Bergman!\u2014with bare staging and three compelling performances.<\/li>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<li>What makes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt36491653\/\">It Was Just an Accident<\/a> remarkable is not just its harrowing depiction of the cycle of violence, or what it says against the Iranian regime, or how it was filmed in secret, but its humor and humanity in addition to all of that.<\/li>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<li>The costumes and special effects in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0056352\/\">Planeta bur<\/a> never rise above classic <em>Doctor Who<\/em> level, and its grasp on planetary science is questionable at best, but it&#8217;s an intriguing glimpse into Soviet-era science fiction filmmaking.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0050706\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/5-1-197x300.jpg\" alt=\"Mon Oncle\" width=\"197\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-14688\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/5-1-197x300.jpg 197w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/5-1-674x1024.jpg 674w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/5-1-768x1167.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/5-1-1011x1536.jpg 1011w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/5-1-1348x2048.jpg 1348w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/5-1-scaled.jpg 1685w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 197px) 100vw, 197px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0092603\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/6-1-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Babette&#039;s Feast\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-14689\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/6-1-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/6-1-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/6-1-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/6-1.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0101497\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/7-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"The Boneyard\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-14690\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/7-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/7.jpg 667w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/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>As with his appearances in other films, Jacques Tati&#8217;s Monsieur Hulot character in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0050706\/\">Mon Oncle<\/a> usually elicits more bemused smiles from me than full-on laughter, and yet there is a lovely and meticulous craft to Tati&#8217;s films, as well as a knowing lampooning of the characters and the society they have built around them.<\/li>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<li>There&#8217;s a loveliness and real sense of longing in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0092603\/\">Babette&#8217;s Feast<\/a>.<\/li>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<li>Some impressive late-game costume and makeup work notwithstanding, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0101497\/\">The Boneyard<\/a> is largely terrible, dull and confused for most of its runtime and a mishmash of tones that are ridiculous when they should be scary, creepy when they should be funny. There&#8217;s half a half-baked idea in the mess\u2014and it could have been much worse, given what was obviously a very low budget\u2014but I very much did not enjoy this.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw 7 movies last week. There was something of a theme until the very end: Upon seeing Angel&#8217;s Egg, Hayao Miyazaki reportedly said it was &#8220;not something others would understand.&#8221; I&#8217;m not sure understanding is what the movie wants or expects, but he wasn&#8217;t wrong. It&#8217;s intriguing, often stunningly animated, but I could not &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=14683\">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-14683","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\/14683"}],"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=14683"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14692,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14683\/revisions\/14692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}