{"id":5736,"date":"2011-01-22T22:48:28","date_gmt":"2011-01-23T02:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/?p=5736"},"modified":"2011-01-22T22:48:28","modified_gmt":"2011-01-23T02:48:28","slug":"another-year-movie-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/2011\/01\/22\/another-year-movie-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Year&#8211;Movie Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/image\/stars\/35o5.gif\" alt=\"3.5 Stars\" \/><br \/>\nMike Leigh&#8217;s latest movie <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1431181\/\"><em>Another Year<\/em><\/a> is a pure &#8220;slice of life&#8221; exercise. It consists of four segments labeled &#8220;Spring,&#8221; &#8220;Summer,&#8221; &#8220;Autumn&#8221; and &#8220;Winter&#8221; featuring incidents from a year in the lives of the two main characters.<\/p>\n<p>These are Tom and Gerri (Jim Broadbent and Ruth Sheen), an elderly couple who in spite of their unfortunate names are smart, decent, sensible and well-adjusted. They also have a son (Oliver Maltman) who is also a decent well-adjusted sort. This could make a very dull movie, but fortunately for us they have relatives and friends who are not at all well-adjusted, including Gerri&#8217;s boozy and  lonely friend Mary (Lesley Manville) and Tom&#8217;s lonely and boozy friend Ken (Peter Wight.)<\/p>\n<p>This sort of thing is very much a matter of taste, but it does feature some fine acting and witty dialog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Leigh&#8217;s latest movie Another Year is a pure &#8220;slice of life&#8221; exercise. It consists of four segments labeled &#8220;Spring,&#8221; &#8220;Summer,&#8221; &#8220;Autumn&#8221; and &#8220;Winter&#8221; featuring incidents from a year in&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/2011\/01\/22\/another-year-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":[411],"class_list":["post-5736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-another-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5736","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=5736"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5742,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5736\/revisions\/5742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugfox.net\/fun\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}