{"id":2973,"date":"2009-04-19T22:23:18","date_gmt":"2009-04-20T02:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/?p=2973"},"modified":"2009-04-19T22:25:11","modified_gmt":"2009-04-20T02:25:11","slug":"state-of-play-movie-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/2009\/04\/19\/state-of-play-movie-review\/","title":{"rendered":"State of Play&#8211;Movie Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/image\/stars\/4o5.gif\" alt=\"4 Stars\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0473705\/\"><em>State of Play<\/em><\/a> is a solid, professional thriller, sharply written with some fine performances.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Washington Globe<\/em> is a major metropolitan newspaper with a newsroom full of the usual assortment of colorful characters. Cal McAffrey (Russell Crowe) is a crusty, disheveled investigative reporter who has been in the business a long time and knows where the bodies are buried (or failing that, knows someone who does know.)<\/p>\n<p>Della Frye (Rachel McAdams) is an enthusiastic young reporter who writes a blog for the paper&#8217;s online edition, covering the Capitol.<\/p>\n<p>Stephen Collins (Ben Affleck) is an ambitious young Congressman conducting hearings on the activities of a shadowy security firm called <strike>Blackwater<\/strike> PointCorp, employed by the Pentagon to perform support operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.  All hell breaks loose when one of the Congressman&#8217;s staffers dies in a subway accident, a suspected suicide.<\/p>\n<p>Della pounces on the story, assuming that the Congressman and the staffer must have been having an affair.<\/p>\n<p>Cal also gets involved. He sees connections with a murder investigation that he has been working on, and suspects that the aide must also have been murdered. But he has personal connections to the story that threaten his objectivity: not only is he an old friend of Congressman Collins, but he once had an affair with Collins&#8217; wife.<\/p>\n<p>Helen Mirren is typically delightful in a secondary role as Cal&#8217;s editor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State of Play is a solid, professional thriller, sharply written with some fine performances. The Washington Globe is a major metropolitan newspaper with a newsroom full of the usual assortment&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/2009\/04\/19\/state-of-play-movie-review\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[268],"class_list":["post-2973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-state-of-play"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2973"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2981,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2973\/revisions\/2981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}