{"id":6414,"date":"2011-08-13T11:19:17","date_gmt":"2011-08-13T10:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=6414"},"modified":"2011-08-13T11:20:44","modified_gmt":"2011-08-13T10:20:44","slug":"a-whole-day-in-the-world-of-the-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=6414","title":{"rendered":"A whole day in the world of the movies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I&#8217;ve explained <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/FAQ.html#Cinema\">here<\/a>, I&#8217;m an enormous enthusiast for the cinema. But it was only yesterday that I attended my first all-day movie event accompanied by my young film buddy Spence.<\/p>\n<p>The event was the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.empirebigscreen.com\/\">&#8220;Big Screen&#8221;<\/a> organised by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.empireonline.com\/magazine\/\">&#8220;Empire&#8221; magazine<\/a> which I take monthly. The venue was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theo2.co.uk\/venue\/venue-info.html\">the O2<\/a> which I&#8217;ve not been to since it was called the Millennium Dome and hosted the millennium exhibition in 2000.<\/p>\n<p>We saw two full-length movies in terrific theatres (the venue has nine): the original <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0082198\/\">&#8220;Conan The Barbarian&#8221;<\/a> and the newly-released <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1318514\/\">&#8220;Rise Of Planet Of The Apes&#8221;<\/a>. We also attended an interview with rising British actor Dominic Cooper who spoke especially about his latest film <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1270262\/\">&#8220;The Devil&#8217;s Double&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Then there were the Imperial stormtroopers from the &#8220;Star Wars&#8221; series striding around and a full-scale version of the DeLorean car from &#8220;Back To The Future&#8221;. So, all in all, a really fun day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I&#8217;ve explained here, I&#8217;m an enormous enthusiast for the cinema. But it was only yesterday that I attended my first all-day movie event accompanied by my young film buddy Spence. The event was the &#8220;Big Screen&#8221; organised by &#8220;Empire&#8221; magazine which I take monthly. The venue was the O2 which I&#8217;ve not been to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-issues","category-my-life-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6414","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=6414"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6425,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6414\/revisions\/6425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}