{"id":15010,"date":"2026-09-13T14:40:06","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T18:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=15010"},"modified":"2026-09-13T14:42:40","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T18:42:40","slug":"weekly-movie-roundup-180","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=15010","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Movie Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I watched just four movies last week, or maybe five, because <em>Little Dorrit<\/em> was originally released in two parts.<\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0073803\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1-1-213x300.jpg\" alt=\"Three Men in a Boat\" width=\"213\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-15006\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1-1-213x300.jpg 213w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1-1.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 213px) 100vw, 213px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0095530\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/2-1-191x300.jpg\" alt=\"Little Dorrit\" width=\"191\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-15007\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/2-1-191x300.jpg 191w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/2-1.jpg 556w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 191px) 100vw, 191px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0081752\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/3-1-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-15008\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/3-1-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/3-1-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/3-1-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/3-1.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt8814476\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/4-1-202x300.jpg\" alt=\"Supergirl\" width=\"202\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-15009\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/4-1-202x300.jpg 202w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/4-1-691x1024.jpg 691w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/4-1-768x1138.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/4-1.jpg 1012w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 202px) 100vw, 202px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0073803\/\">Three Men in a Boat<\/a> is charming, well cast, sometimes melancholy, and often delightful.<\/li>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<li>At six hours, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0095530\/\">Little Dorrit<\/a> is certainly long, but it&#8217;s full of such colorful characters and obvious love of the world Dickens has crafted.<\/li>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<li>It&#8217;s not necessarily Agatha Christie&#8217;s best murder mystery\u2014and there&#8217;s no good reason this adaption of it needs to be three hours long\u2014but 1980&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0081752\/\">Why Didn&#8217;t They Ask Evans?<\/a> is not without its considerable charms.<\/li>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<li>Despite its problems, which are not inconsiderable, I largely enjoyed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt8814476\/\">Supergirl<\/a>,  thanks largely to Milly Alcock in the title role. I give the movie credit for at least <em>trying<\/em> to give Supergirl a character arc, even if often doesn&#8217;t succeed, often looks washed out in a smudge of rushed CGI, and keeps playing its one trick of a fight scene set to an unexpected pop song too many times\u2014until it completely stumbles over itself in the final fight. <em>Woman of Tomorrow<\/em>, while a phenomenal comic, is also perhaps an odd choice for the story they&#8217;re trying to tell here, in the context of the larger, now uncertain, DC movie universe. It&#8217;s not so much that the filmmakers make changes to that story\u2014though, no offense to Jason Momoa, I&#8217;d have cut Lobo in his entirety from the movie\u2014it&#8217;s that it&#8217;s not necessarily a story <em>about<\/em> Supergirl. That said, I enjoyed a lot about this <em>Supergirl<\/em> in spite of itself.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I also rewatched <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0074285\/\">Carrie<\/a>, which is really great\u2014every inch an over-the-top Brian De Palma movie, but rooted in Sissy Spacek&#8217;s endearing performance. And then I rewatched the original <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0076786\/\">Suspiria<\/a>, which makes everything De Palma does look incredibly restrained by comparison. It&#8217;s delightfully ridiculous, such a masterful use of color and light and shadow, with such a bombastic but nevertheless perfect score. I think <em>Deep Red<\/em> is still my favorite Dario Argento movie, but this is without a doubt the quintessential Argento film and a weird delight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I watched just four movies last week, or maybe five, because Little Dorrit was originally released in two parts. Three Men in a Boat is charming, well cast, sometimes melancholy, and often delightful. At six hours, Little Dorrit is certainly long, but it&#8217;s full of such colorful characters and obvious love of the world Dickens &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=15010\">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-15010","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\/15010"}],"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=15010"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15015,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15010\/revisions\/15015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}