{"id":16464,"date":"2026-01-30T13:09:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T13:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=16464"},"modified":"2026-02-03T14:04:46","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T14:04:46","slug":"a-nightmare-at-the-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=16464","title":{"rendered":"A nightmare at the movies"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n\r\n

A new ‘documentary’ film is currently being shown in cinemas across the United States. Entitled Melania<\/a>, it documents the life of Melania Knauss Trump<\/a>, the first lady of the United States, in the twenty days before the second presidential inauguration of her husband, the disgraced 45th and current disgraceful 47th President of the United States, adjudicated sexual predator, condemned business fraudster, convicted felon and compulsive liar, one Donald John Trump (who is on a personal quest to Make America Grate Again or something similar. Ed.<\/em>).<\/p>\r\n\r\n

According to The Guardian<\/a>, Amazon MGM Studios bought the rights to the film for $40m \u2013 which reportedly included a considerable sum to the subject of the film (no surprise there! The whole tRump family are high gains grifters. Ed.<\/em>) \u2013 and is spending $35m on a global marketing push. This spend has so far been mostly in the US, with TV spots, billboards and a takeover of Las Vegas\u2019s immersive events venue The Sphere<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

However, the film is not proving popular either with the public or the critics. As regards the latter, this might just be due to the mainstream press not being invited by Amazon the the premiere<\/a> at the Kennedy Center.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

The exclusion of the Fourth Estate may also explain the dire reviews the film has been receiving, such as the one below ascribed to Variety, although Yahoo News suggests this could be a misattribution<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\"Post\r\n\r\n
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What is more, it’s not just film critics that have been drawing attention to the film’s awfulness. Members of the public reviewing it on IMDb have given it an average score of 1.3<\/a> out of ten.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

However, this criticism is quite mild compared with the defaced bus stop poster portrayed below, which prompts ypour ‘umble scribe to ask when exactly will the so-called Epstein Files<\/a> be released in full?<\/p>\r\n\r\n\"Bus\r\n\r\n
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Update 31\/01\/2026<\/strong><\/em>: Another tranche of the Epstein Files was released yesterday<\/a>, with at least one wag on social media suggesting the files’ release was intended to distract from from the Melania documentary.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\"Post\r\n\r\n

Update 03\/02\/2026<\/strong><\/em>: The film continues to get panned, as revealed by this social media post referring to a recent review in The Grauniad.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\"Post\r\n\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A new ‘documentary’ film is currently being shown in cinemas across the United States. Entitled Melania, it documents the life of Melania Knauss Trump, the first lady of the United States, in the twenty days before the second presidential inauguration of her husband, the disgraced 45th and current disgraceful 47th President of the United States, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,32,15,34,9],"tags":[36,16,22,33,20,35],"class_list":["post-16464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-translation-and-language-related-matters","category-media","category-politics","category-social-media","category-tech","tag-comment","tag-english-usage","tag-language","tag-media-2","tag-politics-2","tag-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16464"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16517,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16464\/revisions\/16517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}