{"id":8779,"date":"2016-09-08T21:29:37","date_gmt":"2016-09-09T01:29:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=8779"},"modified":"2016-09-08T21:29:37","modified_gmt":"2016-09-09T01:29:37","slug":"midnight-special","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/midnight-special\/","title":{"rendered":"Midnight Special"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{4\/5} &#8220;There&#8217;s a world built on top of ours. People live there&#8230; I think they&#8217;re like me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Midnight Special<\/strong>, released in 2016<\/p>\n<p>Alton is an 8-year-old boy with special powers. His father and a friend have taken him away from his home &#8212; they believe that he needs to be at a certain place on a certain day. The powers that be at the ranch where they lived are after the boy &#8212; they think he&#8217;s a saviour. So are the FBI &#8212; they think he&#8217;s a weapon.<\/p>\n<p>This movie starts slowly. The performances are terrific, and once the story gets going you&#8217;ll want to find out what happens.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re looking for something a bit different than the usual, it&#8217;s worth your while.<\/p>\n<p>Stars Michael Shannon, Adam Driver, and Kirsten Dunst. Directed by Jeff Nichols (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/mud\/\"><strong>Mud<\/strong><\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{4\/5} &#8220;There&#8217;s a world built on top of ours. People live there&#8230; I think they&#8217;re like me.&#8221; Midnight Special, released in 2016 Alton is an 8-year-old boy with special powers. His father and a friend have taken him away from his home &#8212; they believe that he needs to be at a certain place on [&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":[6,5,8],"class_list":["post-8779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-movie","tag-review","tag-science-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8779","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=8779"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8783,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8779\/revisions\/8783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}