{"id":110348,"date":"2015-11-20T11:00:27","date_gmt":"2015-11-20T16:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=110348"},"modified":"2021-07-27T21:27:08","modified_gmt":"2021-07-28T01:27:08","slug":"seeing-creed-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=110348","title":{"rendered":"Seeing <i>Creed<\/i> Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s one of my most-anticipated films of the year. Not just because of my long-standing Rocky obsession, plus my love of Sylvester Stallone, but because I think Michael B. Jordan is so excellent too (<i>Fruitvale Station<\/i>!) Plus the wonderful Tessa Thompson, so great in <i>Dear White People<\/i> (I was on the nominating committee for the Gotham Awards last year, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=92593\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">she won for Best Breakthrough Performance<\/a> &#8211; well-deserved). Ryan Coogler directed <i>Creed<\/i> and he also directed <i>Fruitvale Station<\/i>, which was a beautiful and visceral-looking film. Exciting that he and Jordan are coming together again.<\/p>\n<p>Besides which &#8230; I still can&#8217;t stop thinking about that first TRAILER. <\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Uv554B7YHk4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\nGood GOD that is a work of art. <\/p>\n<p><i>Creed<\/i>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YWNWi-ZWL3c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i>Mad Max: Fury Road<\/i><\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=104123\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i>Magic Mike XXL<\/i><\/a> get my unofficial Award for Best Trailers of the year. <\/p>\n<p>Going to a press screening today at the WB screening room and I&#8217;ve been looking forward to it all week. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s one of my most-anticipated films of the year. Not just because of my long-standing Rocky obsession, plus my love of Sylvester Stallone, but because I think Michael B. Jordan is so excellent too (Fruitvale Station!) Plus the wonderful Tessa &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=110348\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[64,2569,2384],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110348"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=110348"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":148104,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110348\/revisions\/148104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=110348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=110348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=110348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}