{"id":5640,"date":"2025-12-05T16:35:03","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T21:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/?p=5640"},"modified":"2025-12-05T21:41:40","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T02:41:40","slug":"friday-b-movie-pick-argyle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/movies\/friday-b-movie-pick-argyle\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday B-Movie Pick: Argylle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B0CW39ZTL4\/eclipsswebwarren\">Argylle<\/a><br><br>I remember when this first came out, and the bad reviews it got. Those reviewers need to extract the sticks stuck up their collective butts. I was laughing out loud at multiple spots in this light hearted, farcical tribute to the action\/spy genre. Excellent cast and major plot twists coming at least every fifteen minutes. There was even a hat tip to the 1979 spy comedy &#8220;The In-Laws&#8221;, where Peter Falk&#8217;s character explains to Alan Arkin&#8217;s character that spies tend to look like someone on the street you wouldn&#8217;t look twice at, not extremely handsome male models with elaborate hair styles and distinctive clothing. It&#8217;s not out on optical disk (I am a big fan of physical media), but it is streaming on Apple TV. Well worth the popcorn if you have a subscription.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.urbin.net\/EWW\/goodreading\/Friday_Movie_picks.html\">Friday B-Movie Archive<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Argylle I remember when this first came out, and the bad reviews it got. Those reviewers need to extract the sticks stuck up their collective butts. I was laughing out loud at multiple spots in this light hearted, farcical tribute to the action\/spy genre. Excellent cast and major plot twists coming at least every fifteen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14],"tags":[344,538],"class_list":["post-5640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-friday-b-movie","tag-movie"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pab4zg-1sY","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5640"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5643,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5640\/revisions\/5643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbin.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}