{"id":11709,"date":"2017-09-15T21:51:52","date_gmt":"2017-09-16T02:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=11709"},"modified":"2017-09-15T21:51:52","modified_gmt":"2017-09-16T02:51:52","slug":"belated-movie-reviews-240","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/09\/15\/belated-movie-reviews-240\/","title":{"rendered":"Belated Movie Reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 348px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/singingcritic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/death-at-a-funeral.jpg?resize=338%2C209\" alt=\"\" width=\"338\" height=\"209\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>I hope to have this much fun at my funeral.<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Death_at_a_Funeral_(2007_film)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><em>Death At A Funeral<\/em><\/strong><\/a> (2007) is an odd mixture of dry British humor and broad farce. A man has died, and his sons and wife are running the funeral. Expenses are piling up, hormones are running high in some of the guests, and there&#8217;s a vial of pills blazing a trail of evil through the guests.<\/p>\n<p>Meantime, the man&#8217;s lover has shown up to claim a share of the estate. His short share, actually. Too bad he hit his head on the corner of the table.<\/p>\n<p>Its culmination, as hilarious as I found it, also includes an opportunity for many to mature a bit, and that adds a lovely counterpoint to what could have been simple humor. It serves to deepen the movie a nice bit.<\/p>\n<p>This is an old favorite of mine, and after a long day at work, it was great to sit down and watch, even if it was the TV version, and occasionally the dialog disappears completely under the Puritan&#8217;s censorious gaze. If you have the patience for the certain slow pace of a funeral gone awry, then I think this is <em><strong>Recommended<\/strong><\/em>, or at least not far short of it.<\/p>\n<p>This has been remade in a 2010 version, which I have not seen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Death At A Funeral (2007) is an odd mixture of dry British humor and broad farce. A man has died, and his sons and wife are running the funeral. Expenses are piling up, hormones are running high in some of the guests, and there&#8217;s a vial of pills blazing a \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/09\/15\/belated-movie-reviews-240\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11709"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11710,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11709\/revisions\/11710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}