{"id":19261,"date":"2016-02-28T08:38:34","date_gmt":"2016-02-28T07:38:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=19261"},"modified":"2016-02-28T08:38:34","modified_gmt":"2016-02-28T07:38:34","slug":"a-review-of-trumbo-a-film-about-the-hollywood-ten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=19261","title":{"rendered":"A review of &#8220;Trumbo&#8221; &#8211; a film about the Hollywood Ten"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Are you, or have you ever been, a member of the Communist Party?&#8221; During the &#8216;red scare&#8217; of the late 1940s, this was the question posed to those called before the House Un-American Activities Committee in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>In this evening&#8217;s Academy Awards, Bryan Cranstan has been nominated for Best Actor for his performance in the eponymous role in the film <em>&#8220;Trumbo&#8221;<\/em> which examines this dark period of American history. I don&#8217;t think he will win &#8211; I believe the award with go to Leonardo di Caprio for his role in <em>&#8220;The Revenant&#8221;<\/em> &#8211; but Cranstan is brilliant in his portrayal of \u00a0the screen writer who was impriosned by the state and blacklisted by Hollywood.<\/p>\n<p>You can read my review of the film <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/Films:T#Trumbo\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Are you, or have you ever been, a member of the Communist Party?&#8221; During the &#8216;red scare&#8217; of the late 1940s, this was the question posed to those called before the House Un-American Activities Committee in the United States. In this evening&#8217;s Academy Awards, Bryan Cranstan has been nominated for Best Actor for his performance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19261"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19263,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19261\/revisions\/19263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}