{"id":1562,"date":"2012-06-19T06:08:39","date_gmt":"2012-06-19T06:08:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/complete.ironsoap.org\/?p=1562"},"modified":"2012-06-19T06:08:40","modified_gmt":"2012-06-19T06:08:40","slug":"city-hall-1996","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/complete.ironsoap.org\/?p=1562","title":{"rendered":"City Hall (1996)"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/media.tumblr.com\/tumblr_m5tz9oUrPU1qb5xk2.jpg\">City Hall<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2606<\/p>\n<p><strong>Directed by<\/strong>: Harold Becker<\/p>\n<p><strong>Written by<\/strong>:\u00a0Ken Lipper,\u00a0Paul Schrader,\u00a0Nicholas Pileggi and\u00a0Bo Goldman<\/p>\n<p>This tightly-packed thriller reminded me a bit of a newer movie I reviewed here, The Ides of March. This is a movie about politics, choices, courage and convictions, with workman performances by John Cusack as the Deputy Mayor of New York City and Bridget Fonda as the representative of a slain cop. The standout is the layered work done by Al Pacino as fictional mayor John Pappas, a nuanced character who is both pragmatist and idealist. I particularly liked that the movie had a lot of intrigue and life-or-death elements, especially as the powerful men behind the scandal try to cover up their tracks, but at no point did it descend into silly or outrageous territory. Worth watching.<\/p>\n<p>from <a href=\"http:\/\/nothieflike.tumblr.com\/\">No Thief Like a Bad Movie<\/a> \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/nothieflike.tumblr.com\/post\/25384702332\/city-hall-1996\">June 18, 2012 at 01:51PM<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City Hall \u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2606 Directed by: Harold Becker Written by:\u00a0Ken Lipper,\u00a0Paul Schrader,\u00a0Nicholas Pileggi and\u00a0Bo Goldman This tightly-packed thriller reminded me a bit of a newer movie I reviewed here, The Ides of March. This is a movie about politics, choices, courage and convictions, with workman performances by John Cusack as the Deputy Mayor of New York [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-no-thief-like-a-bad-movie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/complete.ironsoap.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/complete.ironsoap.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/complete.ironsoap.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/complete.ironsoap.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/complete.ironsoap.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1562"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/complete.ironsoap.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1563,"href":"http:\/\/complete.ironsoap.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1562\/revisions\/1563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/complete.ironsoap.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/complete.ironsoap.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/complete.ironsoap.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}