{"id":34040,"date":"2021-08-24T18:30:14","date_gmt":"2021-08-24T23:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=34040"},"modified":"2021-08-24T18:30:14","modified_gmt":"2021-08-24T23:30:14","slug":"belated-movie-reviews-685","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2021\/08\/24\/belated-movie-reviews-685\/","title":{"rendered":"Belated Movie Reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_34097\" style=\"width: 484px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/AppointmentWithDeath.jpeg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34097\" class=\"wp-image-34097 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/AppointmentWithDeath.jpeg?resize=474%2C306&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"306\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/AppointmentWithDeath.jpeg?w=474&amp;ssl=1 474w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/AppointmentWithDeath.jpeg?resize=300%2C194&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/AppointmentWithDeath.jpeg?resize=150%2C97&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/AppointmentWithDeath.jpeg?resize=232%2C150&amp;ssl=1 232w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-34097\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>We&#8217;re both regretting this gig, I believe I can say for the Colonel.,<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Appointment_with_Death_(film)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Appointment With Death<\/strong><\/em><\/a> (1988) is sloppy, uninspiring rehash of the Agatha Christie novel of the same name. Who killed the wicked old witch? Everyone&#8217;s drearily motivated, and Peter Ustinov&#8217;s rendition of Christie&#8217;s Poirot has an ugly, unconvincing accent. The bones of a good murder mystery are here, but the acting is mostly stiff, characters a bland lot, and many character interactions are unconvincing.<\/p>\n<p>Or maybe it was the broadcast TV editing. Poirot&#8217;s accent ended up on the floor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Appointment With Death (1988) is sloppy, uninspiring rehash of the Agatha Christie novel of the same name. Who killed the wicked old witch? Everyone&#8217;s drearily motivated, and Peter Ustinov&#8217;s rendition of Christie&#8217;s Poirot has an ugly, unconvincing accent. The bones of a good murder mystery are here, but the acting \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2021\/08\/24\/belated-movie-reviews-685\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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-34040","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\/34040","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=34040"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34098,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34040\/revisions\/34098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}