{"id":6109,"date":"2016-10-24T19:31:23","date_gmt":"2016-10-25T00:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=6109"},"modified":"2016-10-24T19:31:23","modified_gmt":"2016-10-25T00:31:23","slug":"belated-movie-reviews-99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2016\/10\/24\/belated-movie-reviews-99\/","title":{"rendered":"Belated Movie Reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_6110\" style=\"width: 453px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/nest-5.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6110\" class=\"wp-image-6110\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/nest-5.jpg?resize=443%2C249&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"nest-5\" width=\"443\" height=\"249\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/nest-5.jpg?w=550&amp;ssl=1 550w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/nest-5.jpg?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/nest-5.jpg?resize=250%2C140&amp;ssl=1 250w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/nest-5.jpg?resize=150%2C84&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 443px) 100vw, 443px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6110\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>The scientist, about to get it from the queen cockroach.<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Nest_(1988_film)\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>The Nest<\/strong><\/em><\/a>\u00a0(1988) explores the dangers of accelerating cockroach evolution through the application of survival pressures. Sounds like an intellectually stimulating tale that&#8217;ll educate while titillating, yes?<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t believe that shit.<\/p>\n<p>Horrible special effects, mediocre, or worse, acting &#8211; although I liked the scientist for her impeccable coiffure in the midst of disaster and mild misanthropy, while my Arts Editor conceived a cautious liking for the exterminator &#8211; a bad, confusing plot &#8211; whatever happened to the lass with the monster headphones &#8211; and creatures that are not only developing resistance to cockroach poison, but have learned how to take over the bodies of their victims.<\/p>\n<p>Cockroach-powered zombies, if you will.<\/p>\n<p>Much like <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Blob\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>The Blob<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, their only real vulnerability is a good CO<sub>2<\/sub> fire extinguisher, but how you do that to an entire island boggles the mind. My Arts Editor took to moaning during our debut viewing.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Avoid, avoid, avoid!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nest\u00a0(1988) explores the dangers of accelerating cockroach evolution through the application of survival pressures. Sounds like an intellectually stimulating tale that&#8217;ll educate while titillating, yes? Don&#8217;t believe that shit. Horrible special effects, mediocre, or worse, acting &#8211; although I liked the scientist for her impeccable coiffure in the midst \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2016\/10\/24\/belated-movie-reviews-99\/\"> 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-6109","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\/6109","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=6109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6111,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6109\/revisions\/6111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}