{"id":28895,"date":"2023-09-16T13:53:19","date_gmt":"2023-09-16T12:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=28895"},"modified":"2023-09-16T13:53:19","modified_gmt":"2023-09-16T12:53:19","slug":"a-review-of-the-new-film-love-at-first-sight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=28895","title":{"rendered":"A review of the new film &#8220;Love At First Sight&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\nI guess that many would call this a chic-flic. After all, it&#8217;s directed by a woman, written by a woman, and based on a novel by a woman. But I&#8217;m a bit of a sucker for rom-coms, especially those filmed in my home city of London. I didn&#8217;t expect much from this Netflix offering but I rather enjoyed it. \n<p>\nIt deploys many of the tropes of the genre, including the meet-cute (the mobile charging unit at New York&#8217;s JFK airport), but there&#8217;s a late twist that gives the plot some grit. Above all, we have two young newcomers who bring real charm to the leading roles: Haley Lu Richardson as the American girl Hadley and Ben Hardy as the British guy Oliver. \n<p>\nGive it a try.\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I guess that many would call this a chic-flic. After all, it&#8217;s directed by a woman, written by a woman, and based on a novel by a woman. But I&#8217;m a bit of a sucker for rom-coms, especially those filmed in my home city of London. I didn&#8217;t expect much from this Netflix offering but [&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-28895","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\/28895","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=28895"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28896,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28895\/revisions\/28896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}