{"id":15094,"date":"2026-11-08T15:47:49","date_gmt":"2026-11-08T20:47:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=15094"},"modified":"2026-11-08T15:47:57","modified_gmt":"2026-11-08T20:47:57","slug":"weekly-movie-roundup-188","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=15094","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Movie Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I watched 5 movies last week:<\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0046124\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/1-1-191x300.jpg\" alt=\"Never Let Me Go\" width=\"191\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-15093\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/1-1-191x300.jpg 191w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/1-1-652x1024.jpg 652w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/1-1-768x1205.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/1-1-979x1536.jpg 979w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/1-1-1305x2048.jpg 1305w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/1-1-scaled.jpg 1631w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 191px) 100vw, 191px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0089034\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/2-1-203x300.jpg\" alt=\"The Doctor and the Devils\" width=\"191\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-15095\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt44825373\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/3-1-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"SCTV: The Greatest Show You&#039;ve Never Heard Of\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-15096\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/3-1-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/3-1-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/3-1-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/3-1.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0046124\/\">Never Let Me Go<\/a> gets off to a slightly slow start, but it&#8217;s a lot fun when it settles into a (early Cold) war thriller, and the cast is very good, even if Gene Tierney arguably doesn&#8217;t get enough to do throughout.<\/li>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0089034\/\">The Doctor and the Devils<\/a> is mostly just a little boring\u2014some good performances but probably at least one too many characters, and little to no humor.<\/li>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt44825373\/\">SCTV: The Greatest Show You&#8217;ve Never Heard Of<\/a> doesn&#8217;t feel entirely dissimilar to a dozen other comedy documentaries Netflix has put together in recent years, but it&#8217;s nonetheless incredibly joyful and rewarding. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rogerebert.com\/reviews\/sctv-the-greatest-show-youve-never-heard-of-netflix-documentary-film-review-2026\">As Richard Roeper writes<\/a>: &#8220;This is a no-frills film, relying on those golden-old clips, the warm, witty, and insightful memories of comic giants, and the sharp observations of modern-day talents. That\u2019s more than enough.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0041460\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/4-1-195x300.jpg\" alt=\"The Hidden Room\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-15097\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/4-1-195x300.jpg 195w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/4-1-665x1024.jpg 665w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/4-1-768x1183.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/4-1-997x1536.jpg 997w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/4-1-1330x2048.jpg 1330w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/4-1-scaled.jpg 1662w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt39009462\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/5-1-209x300.jpg\" alt=\"The Snow Demon\" width=\"209\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-15098\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/5-1-209x300.jpg 209w, https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/5-1.jpg 256w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 209px) 100vw, 209px\" \/><\/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><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0041460\/\">The Hidden Room<\/a>, otherwise known as <em>Obsession<\/em>, is surprisingly bad. It&#8217;s a well shot, sometimes even tense, thriller, with some solid performances, but it&#8217;s built on such contrivances, with a plot&#8217;s so dumb but wants to convince you at every turn that it&#8217;s exceptionally clever\u2014to the point that characters will often literally just say so.<\/li>\n<ul><\/ul>\n<li>I&#8217;ll say this much for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt39009462\/\">The Snow Demon<\/a>: it&#8217;s probably as good as you can expect a movie this bad to be. Make no mistake, it&#8217;s awful, an absolute waste of an hour, as uninteresting as it was unscary, but it was semi-competently made, with an actor or two who are probably capable of better, which for this kind of no-budget affair is saying&#8230;well, not a lot, but something.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I also rewatched <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0089489\/\">Lifeforce<\/a>, which isn&#8217;t a very good movie, but is arguably an ambitiously weird bad movie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I watched 5 movies last week: Never Let Me Go gets off to a slightly slow start, but it&#8217;s a lot fun when it settles into a (early Cold) war thriller, and the cast is very good, even if Gene Tierney arguably doesn&#8217;t get enough to do throughout. The Doctor and the Devils is mostly &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=15094\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15094","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\/15094"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15094"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15107,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15094\/revisions\/15107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}