{"id":780,"date":"2021-12-27T20:01:57","date_gmt":"2021-12-28T01:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.therem.net\/blog\/?page_id=780"},"modified":"2026-02-21T15:57:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T20:57:17","slug":"recentreviews","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.therem.net\/blog\/recentreviews\/","title":{"rendered":"Recent Media Opinions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Film &amp; Tv<\/h2>\n\n\n<ul class=\"has-dates has-excerpts wp-block-rss\"><li class='wp-block-rss__item'><div class='wp-block-rss__item-title'><a href='https:\/\/letterboxd.com\/therem\/film\/downton-abbey-the-grand-finale\/'>Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale, 2025 &#8211; \u2605\u2605\u2605<\/a><\/div><time datetime=\"2026-07-01T23:44:28-04:00\" class=\"wp-block-rss__item-publish-date\">July 1, 2026<\/time> <div class=\"wp-block-rss__item-excerpt\">Happy endings for all. How nice. (said in Lady Mary voice)<\/div><\/li><li class='wp-block-rss__item'><div class='wp-block-rss__item-title'><a href='https:\/\/letterboxd.com\/therem\/film\/fire-island-2022\/'>Fire Island, 2022 &#8211; \u2605\u2605\u2605\u00bd<\/a><\/div><time datetime=\"2026-06-21T21:02:49-04:00\" class=\"wp-block-rss__item-publish-date\">June 21, 2026<\/time> <div class=\"wp-block-rss__item-excerpt\">I enjoyed the Pride &amp; Prejudice references as well as the extreme divergence from that work at certain points. My biggest laugh was when Noah, looking for Howie at an orgiastic party, opened a door to see a crowd of gay men having sex in various positions. He couldn&#039;t quite see who they all were, so he called out, &quot;Howie?&quot; and all of the men immediately froze and looked in his direction. No Howie. So he shut the door and moved on. LOL.Another random thing I loved: every time Noah and Howie touched index fingers. A weird friendship gesture I [&hellip;]<\/div><\/li><li class='wp-block-rss__item'><div class='wp-block-rss__item-title'><a href='https:\/\/letterboxd.com\/therem\/film\/the-history-of-sound\/'>The History of Sound, 2025 &#8211; \u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605 (contains spoilers)<\/a><\/div><time datetime=\"2026-06-10T21:38:18-04:00\" class=\"wp-block-rss__item-publish-date\">June 10, 2026<\/time> <div class=\"wp-block-rss__item-excerpt\">This review may contain spoilers. Through bizarre synchronicity, just as Lionel received the box of cylinders near the end of the movie, a tempest erupted above my house, and it started pouring. Meanwhile, tears were rolling down my cheeks. This film slayed me. And I too might become a serial non-committer and sad person if I had imprinted on Josh O&#039;Connor when I was young. This part especially pierced me: &quot;I suppose I should explain. I just feel like there&#039;s something in me that&#039;s not going away. Like a false note.&quot; You could interpret this multiple ways. David thinks he&#039;s [&hellip;]<\/div><\/li><li class='wp-block-rss__item'><div class='wp-block-rss__item-title'><a href='https:\/\/letterboxd.com\/therem\/film\/i-love-boosters\/'>I Love Boosters, 2026 &#8211; \u2605\u2605\u2605<\/a><\/div><time datetime=\"2026-05-31T23:10:31-04:00\" class=\"wp-block-rss__item-publish-date\">May 31, 2026<\/time> <div class=\"wp-block-rss__item-excerpt\">Loved the Marxist analysis, female bonding, and nutty weirdness. Some scenes went on too long or were structured awkwardly. It was lumpy, kind of like the outfit stuffed with boosted clothes at the beginning.<\/div><\/li><li class='wp-block-rss__item'><div class='wp-block-rss__item-title'><a href='https:\/\/letterboxd.com\/therem\/film\/zorba-the-greek\/'>Zorba the Greek, 1964<\/a><\/div><time datetime=\"2026-05-29T19:20:52-04:00\" class=\"wp-block-rss__item-publish-date\">May 29, 2026<\/time> <div class=\"wp-block-rss__item-excerpt\">Watched on Saturday May 30, 1987.<\/div><\/li><li class='wp-block-rss__item'><div class='wp-block-rss__item-title'><a href='https:\/\/letterboxd.com\/therem\/film\/sophies-choice\/'>Sophie&#039;s Choice, 1982<\/a><\/div><time datetime=\"2026-05-29T19:12:18-04:00\" class=\"wp-block-rss__item-publish-date\">May 29, 2026<\/time> <div class=\"wp-block-rss__item-excerpt\">Watched on Saturday July 26, 1986.<\/div><\/li><li class='wp-block-rss__item'><div class='wp-block-rss__item-title'><a href='https:\/\/letterboxd.com\/therem\/film\/about-last-night\/'>About Last Night&#8230;, 1986<\/a><\/div><time datetime=\"2026-05-29T19:07:19-04:00\" class=\"wp-block-rss__item-publish-date\">May 29, 2026<\/time> <div class=\"wp-block-rss__item-excerpt\">Watched on Saturday July 19, 1986.<\/div><\/li><li class='wp-block-rss__item'><div class='wp-block-rss__item-title'><a href='https:\/\/letterboxd.com\/therem\/film\/st-elmos-fire\/'>St. Elmo&#039;s Fire, 1985<\/a><\/div><time datetime=\"2026-05-29T19:00:46-04:00\" class=\"wp-block-rss__item-publish-date\">May 29, 2026<\/time> <div class=\"wp-block-rss__item-excerpt\">Watched on Saturday March 29, 1986.<\/div><\/li><li class='wp-block-rss__item'><div class='wp-block-rss__item-title'><a href='https:\/\/letterboxd.com\/therem\/film\/electric-dreams\/'>Electric Dreams, 1984 &#8211; \u2605\u2605\u2605\u00bd<\/a><\/div><time datetime=\"2026-05-29T18:59:58-04:00\" class=\"wp-block-rss__item-publish-date\">May 29, 2026<\/time> <div class=\"wp-block-rss__item-excerpt\">Watched on Sunday March 30, 1986.<\/div><\/li><li class='wp-block-rss__item'><div class='wp-block-rss__item-title'><a href='https:\/\/letterboxd.com\/therem\/film\/breaking-away\/'>Breaking Away, 1979<\/a><\/div><time datetime=\"2026-05-29T18:40:31-04:00\" class=\"wp-block-rss__item-publish-date\">May 29, 2026<\/time> <div class=\"wp-block-rss__item-excerpt\">Watched on Friday October 11, 1985.<\/div><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Books<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"w4b8265ff308121aab06c0caf4e7d7387\"><\/div><script type=\"text\/javascript\" charset=\"UTF-8\" src=\"https:\/\/www.librarything.com\/widget_get.php?userid=therem&#038;theID=w4b8265ff308121aab06c0caf4e7d7387\"><\/script><noscript><a href=\"https:\/\/www.librarything.com\/profile\/therem\">My Library<\/a> at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.librarything.com\">LibraryThing<\/a><\/noscript>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Film &amp; Tv Books My Library at LibraryThing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-780","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therem.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therem.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therem.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therem.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therem.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=780"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.therem.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":921,"href":"https:\/\/www.therem.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/780\/revisions\/921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therem.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}