{"id":14745,"date":"2026-04-19T11:23:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T15:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=14745"},"modified":"2026-04-19T11:30:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T15:30:38","slug":"weakly-movie-roundup-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=14745","title":{"rendered":"Weakly Movie Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=14730\">three weeks<\/a> since I last posted a roundup of the movies I&#8217;ve seen, mostly because I&#8217;ve been traveling, but also because in that time I&#8217;ve only seen 6 movies:<\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt32141377\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1-1-203x300.jpg\" alt=\"28 Years Later the Bone Temple\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-14757\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1-1-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1-1-692x1024.jpg 692w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1-1-768x1137.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1-1-1037x1536.jpg 1037w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1-1-1383x2048.jpg 1383w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1-1-scaled.jpg 1729w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt2177771\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/2-1-203x300.jpg\" alt=\"The Monuments Men\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-14758\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/2-1-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/2-1-691x1024.jpg 691w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/2-1-768x1138.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/2-1-1037x1536.jpg 1037w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/2-1-1382x2048.jpg 1382w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/2-1-scaled.jpg 1728w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt28083456\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/3-1-203x300.jpg\" alt=\"Is This Thing On?\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-14759\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/3-1-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/3-1-691x1024.jpg 691w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/3-1-768x1138.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/3-1-1037x1536.jpg 1037w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/3-1-1382x2048.jpg 1382w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/3-1-scaled.jpg 1728w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt32141377\/\">28 Years Later: The Bone Temple<\/a> picks up the theme of human kindness from the first film, amplifying it by contrast against a more frightening, because human, villain, one offering cruelty masquerading as kindness. There are some frighteningly brutal moments, but also real, often surprisingly audacious, beauty, and another strong performance from Ralph Fiennes.<\/li>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<li>There&#8217;s a compelling story in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt2177771\/\">The Monuments Men<\/a>\u2014or maybe, and this is the movie&#8217;s problem, there are a dozen different compelling stories in it, an entire war&#8217;s worth of disparate stories compressed into a single narrative that can&#8217;t really contain them all while still propelling the movie forward. It&#8217;s well acted and amiable\u2014and you know, <em>fuck Nazis<\/em>\u2014but it&#8217;s also a collection of scenes stitched together more than an exciting story.<\/li>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt28083456\/\">Is This Thing On?<\/a> is well made and well acted, and I liked it lot more than I expected to, but it never rises high enough above the cliches from which it&#8217;s built.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1527793\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/4-210x300.jpg\" alt=\"No Other Choice\" width=\"210\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-14749\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/4-210x300.jpg 210w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/4-717x1024.jpg 717w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/4-768x1097.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/4-1075x1536.jpg 1075w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/4-1434x2048.jpg 1434w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/4-scaled.jpg 1792w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0055478\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/5-197x300.jpg\" alt=\"Stark Fear\" width=\"197\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-14750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/5-197x300.jpg 197w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/5-672x1024.jpg 672w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/5-768x1171.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/5-1008x1536.jpg 1008w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/5-1343x2048.jpg 1343w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/5-scaled.jpg 1679w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 197px) 100vw, 197px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt6433880\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/6-202x300.jpg\" alt=\"Anna and the Apocalypse\" width=\"202\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-14751\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/6-202x300.jpg 202w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/6-691x1024.jpg 691w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/6-768x1138.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/6-1037x1536.jpg 1037w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/6.jpg 1382w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 202px) 100vw, 202px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1527793\/\">No Other Choice<\/a> is\u2014and I mean this in the best possible way\u2014batshit insane, making weird but compelling choices at every turn.<\/li>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<li>There are a lot of very good performances in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0055478\/\">Stark Fear<\/a>, and not just from star Beverly Garland and the other leads, but also from many of the non-professional locals the movie cast. It&#8217;s a pity they&#8217;re not given a particularly understandable story or script from which to work, making those performances feel less like part of a cohesive whole than a handful of interesting moments.<\/li>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<li>Was the world crying out for a mashup of <em>Shaun of the Dead<\/em> and <em>High School Musical<\/em>? Much less a Christmas-themed one? (Much less a Christmas-themed one I watched in April?) I don&#8217;t know, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt6433880\/\">Anna and the Apocalypse<\/a> is mostly good fun. Catchy, if not at all memorable, songs and a lot of playful characters and camerawork. I didn&#8217;t necessarily love it, but I enjoyed my short time with it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I also re-watched 3 movies:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0100150\/\">Miller&#8217;s Crossing<\/a>, which isn&#8217;t necessarily the Coen Brothers&#8217; best collaboration, but there&#8217;s a lot to love about its style and humor.<\/li>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0093779\/\">The Princess Bride<\/a>, which is just a sheer delight every time.<\/li>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0061722\/\">The Graduate<\/a>, which I was almost surprised to discover is still <em>really<\/em> good, despite being very much of its time, and despite every beat of it having entered into the public consciousness.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been three weeks since I last posted a roundup of the movies I&#8217;ve seen, mostly because I&#8217;ve been traveling, but also because in that time I&#8217;ve only seen 6 movies: 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple picks up the theme of human kindness from the first film, amplifying it by contrast against a more &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=14745\">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-14745","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\/14745"}],"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=14745"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14762,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14745\/revisions\/14762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}