{"id":45351,"date":"2026-08-02T16:04:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T21:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=45351"},"modified":"2026-08-02T16:04:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T21:04:20","slug":"belated-movie-reviews-951","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2026\/08\/02\/belated-movie-reviews-951\/","title":{"rendered":"Belated Movie Reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"
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At least they served dinner.<\/em>
You’re quite sure?<\/em>
Well, not quite. Merely sure.<\/em>
You fluster me, sir. Fluster me.<\/em>
If you insist. The dinner was a dessert?<\/em>
Not at all. Olives are not a dessert.<\/em>
I say. With enough sugar, anything’s a dessert.<\/em>
Ah, so much nonsense. Puns do not exist in this hotel, so prey do not employ them here. I have not the funds to pay them. Their teeth are sharp and their claws are borrowed from the <\/em>snickety-snick!<\/em>
The tax auditor was snatched up and eaten while inventing an adequate response to this breath-taking assertion. His scuba tank fell off when it happened, but the inspector missed the clue twelve hours later.<\/p><\/div>\n

Mr. K<\/strong> <\/em>(2024) is where you go if you need your fix of surrealism. Mr. K, a sleight-of-hand magician, has been invited to entertain at a hotel. His stay rapidly transforms into a trap as the hotel itself seeks to contain him, shunting him from kitchen to his room to another room to, well, perhaps that was Alice of Wonderland.<\/p>\n

All the while the purposes of hotel and story remain obscure. That’s about all I can really say, as the story becomes more and more obtuse, and when an escape finally is presented, I can only wonder if it’s really an escape, or another trap.<\/p>\n

Like I said, surrealism. If you like it, great, have at it, have fun. If you don’t, though, this may not be your cup of tea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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