{"id":17490,"date":"2021-02-16T19:56:49","date_gmt":"2021-02-17T00:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=17490"},"modified":"2021-02-17T21:23:16","modified_gmt":"2021-02-18T02:23:16","slug":"the-man-from-uncle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/the-man-from-uncle\/","title":{"rendered":"The Man from UNCLE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;Don&#8217;t ever make the calamitous error of mistaking my deliberate shortsightedness for blindness.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Man from UNCLE<\/strong>, released in 2015<\/p>\n<p>Napoleon Solo works for the CIA, after having gone on a spree of art theft across Europe. He&#8217;s in East Berlin to grab the daughter of a scientist whose knowledge of nuclear weapons they don&#8217;t want to fall into the wrong hands. Now he must work with Ilya Kuryakin, a superhuman KGB agent, to find the scientist before he&#8217;s forced to build a bomb for a criminal organization.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s based on an old TV show, which I haven&#8217;t seen.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s lots of fun, starting with the opening scene. It&#8217;s about cool spies saving the world.<\/p>\n<p>Stars Henry Cavill, Armie Hammer, Alicia Vikander, and Hugh Grant. Directed by Guy Ritchie (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/sherlock-holmes\/\"><strong>Sherlock Holmes<\/strong><\/a>). The playful music is by Daniel Pemberton. There are also some great 60s songs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{4.5\/5} &#8220;Don&#8217;t ever make the calamitous error of mistaking my deliberate shortsightedness for blindness.&#8221; The Man from UNCLE, released in 2015 Napoleon Solo works for the CIA, after having gone on a spree of art theft across Europe. He&#8217;s in East Berlin to grab the daughter of a scientist whose knowledge of nuclear weapons they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[15,6,5],"class_list":["post-17490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-drama","tag-movie","tag-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17490"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17502,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17490\/revisions\/17502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}