{"id":33909,"date":"2021-08-14T20:38:55","date_gmt":"2021-08-15T01:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=33909"},"modified":"2021-08-14T20:38:55","modified_gmt":"2021-08-15T01:38:55","slug":"belated-movie-reviews-681","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2021\/08\/14\/belated-movie-reviews-681\/","title":{"rendered":"Belated Movie Reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Your anxiety makes me want to punch you out!<\/p><\/div>\n

In the murder mystery Scoop<\/strong><\/em><\/a> (2006), the emphasis isn’t so much on the mystery at hand – who’s killing this string of women of a singular physical description? – as the promotion of two of the stars. While there’s nothing new or wrong about such star vehicles, it is disappointing that a more intriguing plot couldn’t be put together for these up and comers – Hugh Jackman and Scarlett Johansson.<\/p>\n

Sondra is an American journalism student attending a magic show in London, and finds herself on-stage and participating in a magic trick. The box is shut, she disappears, and a recently deceased and famous journalist pops up and tells her who he thinks is responsible for the activities of a serial killer.<\/p>\n

How does he know? He just interviewed the most recent victim on the other side. And he has problems of his own.<\/p>\n

With the bumbling assistance of the bumbling – but very sincere – bumbling bumbling magician, Sondra plunges into investigating Lord Peter Lyman, rich, famous, politically ambitious – and single. One thing leads to another, and our youngster journalist believes she’s cleared her love for further assignations and eventual wedded bliss.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the reluctant bumbler happens to have some mystical logical inductions of his own, and, sadly, ends up driving on the wrong side of those darned English road – it turns out being from Brooklyn while in the middle of England is decidedly a curse in this story.<\/p>\n

In the end, this story just doesn’t quite work, as characters who should perhaps care for each other more just fail to do so. I found myself wondering just what was wrong with these people that someone ending up dead didn’t really seem to affect at least one other person; meanwhile, the murder victims exacted more tears than goggling we usually see on the screen. This make Scoop<\/strong><\/em> interesting but, ultimately, disappointing.<\/p>\n

And, personally, I was cheering on the late journalist, hoping he could piss off Charon, who always comes off as too cold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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