{"id":9898,"date":"2016-11-24T22:27:46","date_gmt":"2016-11-25T03:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=9898"},"modified":"2016-11-24T22:27:46","modified_gmt":"2016-11-25T03:27:46","slug":"hail-caesar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/hail-caesar\/","title":{"rendered":"Hail, Caesar!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{4\/5} &#8220;Would that it were so simple.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hail, Caesar!<\/strong> released in 2016<\/p>\n<p>In the 1950s Eddie Mannix is a fixer at Capitol Pictures, a movie studio in Hollywood. He deals with all sorts of problems that the stars have, such as a women who&#8217;s having a baby with no husband. When Baird Whitlock is kidnapped by communists right before he&#8217;s needed on set for a big scene, Mannix is tempted to quit and go work for the airline industry.<\/p>\n<p>It isn&#8217;t one of the funniest movies ever, but it is full of low-key humour. It&#8217;s also full of actors you know.<\/p>\n<p>For some reason it doesn&#8217;t quite work as well as it should. But fans of the Coen brothers will want to take a look.<\/p>\n<p>Stars George Clooney, Josh Brolin, Scarlett Johansson, and Tilda Swinton. Directed by the Coen brothers (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/fargo\/\"><strong>Fargo<\/strong><\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{4\/5} &#8220;Would that it were so simple.&#8221; Hail, Caesar! released in 2016 In the 1950s Eddie Mannix is a fixer at Capitol Pictures, a movie studio in Hollywood. He deals with all sorts of problems that the stars have, such as a women who&#8217;s having a baby with no husband. When Baird Whitlock is kidnapped [&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":[16,6,5],"class_list":["post-9898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-comedy","tag-movie","tag-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9898","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=9898"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9901,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9898\/revisions\/9901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}