{"id":306,"date":"2006-11-07T00:22:53","date_gmt":"2006-11-07T05:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/womantalk.wordpress.com\/2006\/11\/07\/the-prestige\/"},"modified":"2006-11-07T00:22:53","modified_gmt":"2006-11-07T05:22:53","slug":"the-prestige","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/?p=306","title":{"rendered":"the prestige"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ia.imdb.com\/media\/imdb\/01\/I\/48\/81\/21\/10m.jpg\" align=\"left\" height=\"140\" width=\"95\" \/>Hmm, if you like Christian Bale half as much as I do, you&#8217;ll enjoy this flick. (Have you seen him as a kid in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0092965\/\" target=\"_blank\">Empire of the Sun<\/a> (1987)? Great acting for a kid.)<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Scarlett Johansson and Hugh Jackman do well and Michael Caine is in there too. It is basically a story of obsession set on a backdrop of magicians in London in bygone days. Chad and I both gave <em>The Prestige<\/em> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0482571\/\" target=\"_blank\">imdb 8.1\/10.0<\/a>) an <strong>A<\/strong>. In fact, Chad liked it well enough to see it in the theater twice. It is a dark movie, as you can see from the movie poster&#8230;Click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/trailers\/fox\/borat\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> to see the preview.\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ia.imdb.com\/media\/imdb\/01\/I\/09\/85\/31\/10m.jpg\" height=\"140\" width=\"91\" \/>  Another movie that has piqued Chad&#8217;s interest is Borat (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0443453\/\" target=\"_blank\">imdb 8.6\/10.0<\/a> &#8211; that is an amazingly high rating from imdb.) Apparently it is making oodles of money, even though it had a very small release and so far the critics love it. Click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/trailers\/touchstone\/theprestige\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> to see the preview.\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/hisdarkmaterials1.jpg\" title=\"hisdarkmaterials1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/11\/hisdarkmaterials1.jpg\" alt=\"hisdarkmaterials1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">And here is a first taste of <em>The Golden Compass<\/em>. Little article at joblo&#8217;s website <a href=\"http:\/\/joblo.com\/index.php?id=13378\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">On the T.V. front &#8211; we are impatiently waiting to borrow the sixth season of <em>Gilmore Girls<\/em> (the last season *gasp* on DVD), still road tripping to our friend&#8217;s big-screen television for <em>Lost<\/em> and watching <em>Deadwood<\/em> bit by bit when Bella is out of the house. <em>Deadwood<\/em> is definitely an adult luxury. Not bad for a no-T.V. -reception house.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hmm, if you like Christian Bale half as much as I do, you&#8217;ll enjoy this flick. (Have you seen him as a kid in Empire of the Sun (1987)? Great acting for a kid.) Scarlett Johansson and Hugh Jackman do &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/?p=306\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}