{"id":18601,"date":"2022-02-05T20:11:46","date_gmt":"2022-02-06T01:11:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=18601"},"modified":"2022-02-06T10:48:59","modified_gmt":"2022-02-06T15:48:59","slug":"ghostbusters-afterlife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2022\/02\/ghostbusters-afterlife\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghostbusters: Afterlife"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{4\/5} &#8220;This isn&#8217;t a farm, it&#8217;s a trap.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ghostbusters: Afterlife<\/strong>, released in 2021<\/p>\n<p>Callie and her two kids get evicted, but at the same time her estranged father dies and leaves her his house in the country. Trevor gets a job at a restaurant because there&#8217;s a cute girl there. Phoebe makes a friend at school who calls himself Podcast. Phoebe also talks to a teacher who happens to be a seismologist, who explains that the town has unexplained earthquake activity. Eventually they discover that Callie&#8217;s father was a Ghostbuster &#8212; and that there are ghosts.<\/p>\n<p>This is a sequel to <strong>Ghostbusters II<\/strong>, ignoring the not-so-great 2016 reboot. Of course, it takes place 30 years later.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re a fan of the original, you&#8217;ll want to watch this one. It&#8217;s a tiny bit repetitive but the kids make it a worthwhile movie.<\/p>\n<p>Like the original, it&#8217;s a mixture of creepy and funny. With a fun story, this is the long-awaited sequel you were looking for.<\/p>\n<p>Stars Paul Rudd, Finn Wolfhard, and Mckenna Grace. It also features many of the actors from the original movies: Bill Murray, Dan Ackroyd, Ernie Hudson, Annie Potts, Sigourney Weaver, and even the ghost of Harold Ramis.<\/p>\n<p>Directed by Jason Reitman (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/juno\/\"><strong>Juno<\/strong><\/a>). The music by Rob Simonsen borrows liberally and gloriously from Elmer Bernstein&#8217;s original score.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{4\/5} &#8220;This isn&#8217;t a farm, it&#8217;s a trap.&#8221; Ghostbusters: Afterlife, released in 2021 Callie and her two kids get evicted, but at the same time her estranged father dies and leaves her his house in the country. Trevor gets a job at a restaurant because there&#8217;s a cute girl there. Phoebe makes a friend at [&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":[9,6,5],"class_list":["post-18601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-fantasy","tag-movie","tag-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18601","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=18601"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18617,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18601\/revisions\/18617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}