{"id":5595,"date":"2014-09-22T03:00:49","date_gmt":"2014-09-22T07:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smugfilm.com\/?p=5595"},"modified":"2014-09-22T03:00:49","modified_gmt":"2014-09-22T07:00:49","slug":"i-aint-been-watching-movies-much-lately","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/i-aint-been-watching-movies-much-lately\/","title":{"rendered":"I Ain\u2019t Been Watching Movies Much Lately, But Movie-Length Mysteries Are Pretty Dope"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"foyle\"<\/p>\n

It\u2019s no secret that there hasn\u2019t been much activity here at Smug Film as of late. Posts became sporadic during the six months of hell the first half of this year was for me, and then after my mom\u2019s passing, the scarcity became only more so. Some of this is because many of our critics are just plain busy with other things\u2014Greg DeLiso started a full-fledged LLC doing videography, was recently married, and is doing quite well for himself; John D\u2019Amico is about to start production directing his crime film set in the Bronx; Alex Hiatt is busy looking at various rocks under various microscopes as always; I\u2019m in a band with my friend Lauren called To Be Young, writing delightful acoustic pop songs and enjoying myself immensely, with recordings expected before the end of the year. But, those wonderful developments aside, the reason, mostly, for the sparsity around here comes down to the fact that I, your dear steward, just can\u2019t stomach watching movies as of late.<\/p>\n

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Mostly I\u2019ve been watching TV\u2014old favorites such as Veronica Mars<\/a> and Deadwood<\/a>. The closest I\u2019ve come to watching movies has been in watching a new favorite, Foyle\u2019s War<\/a>, a BBC mystery series about a detective during World War II\u2014its episodes are 100 minutes long, so they\u2019re basically films, but they don\u2019t really feel like that. Each feels like an entire arc of a season, so despite episodes of that length being a lot to commit to, each is very fulfilling. And each, being a standalone case, provides guaranteed closure, by its very genre\u2019s nature.<\/span><\/p>\n

Such a convention is quite comforting to me right now. It relaxes me. Just a groove I need to be in for the time being, I suppose.<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019ll return to watching movies regularly eventually, I know I will, but I don\u2019t feel the pull right now, and I need to honor that for myself, emotionally. Movies were such a huge part of how my mom and I spent time together. Not that television series weren\u2019t either of course, but for some reason I don\u2019t feel the same aversion towards that entertainment.<\/span><\/p>\n

I love movies. I will always love movies. But, at least for now, I don\u2019t have too much to say about them. I suppose I can tell you that the Veronica Mars movie<\/a> is quite good. It\u2019s essentially an American version of a 100-minute british mystery\u2014which is probably why I liked it so much, I suppose, whereas many seem to be lukewarm about it, confounded by its vibe due to their unfamiliarity with that sort of thing. But I\u2019m just vibrating at that frequency right now. I can\u2019t get enough.<\/span><\/p>\n

By the way, trust me, I miss you too.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\"foyle\"<\/p>\n

It\u2019s no secret that there hasn\u2019t been much activity here at Smug Film as of late. Posts became sporadic during the six months of hell the first half of this year was for me, and then after my mom\u2019s passing, the scarcity became only more so. Some of this is because many of our critics are just plain busy with other things\u2014Greg DeLiso started a full-fledged LLC doing videography, was recently married, and is doing quite well for himself; John D\u2019Amico is about to start production directing his crime film set in the Bronx; Alex Hiatt is busy looking at various rocks under various microscopes as always; I\u2019m in a band with my friend Lauren called To Be Young, writing delightful acoustic pop songs and enjoying myself immensely, with recordings expected before the end of the year. But, those wonderful developments aside, the reason, mostly, for the sparsity around here comes down to the fact that I, your dear steward, just can\u2019t stomach watching movies as of late.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allposts","category-codysessays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5595"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5600,"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5595\/revisions\/5600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}