{"id":115985,"date":"2016-04-01T09:11:36","date_gmt":"2016-04-01T13:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=115985"},"modified":"2022-09-30T11:59:20","modified_gmt":"2022-09-30T15:59:20","slug":"the-dark-horse-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=115985","title":{"rendered":"Review: <I>The Dark Horse<\/i> (2016)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/large_large_h0CP4bczMjuO9VSuD4AdfD3mmR6.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/large_large_h0CP4bczMjuO9VSuD4AdfD3mmR6.jpg\" alt=\"large_large_h0CP4bczMjuO9VSuD4AdfD3mmR6\" width=\"400\" height=\"578\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-115986\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/large_large_h0CP4bczMjuO9VSuD4AdfD3mmR6.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/large_large_h0CP4bczMjuO9VSuD4AdfD3mmR6-69x100.jpg 69w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/large_large_h0CP4bczMjuO9VSuD4AdfD3mmR6-138x200.jpg 138w, https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/large_large_h0CP4bczMjuO9VSuD4AdfD3mmR6-277x400.jpg 277w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nI really loved this movie about real-life Maori chess-phenom Genesis Potini. He was also bipolar. Chess was his only focus, the only thing that helped him organize his illness and his lufe. He devoted his life (he died in 2011) to introducing chess to the underprivileged mostly-Maori kids in his Maori community. With a GORGEOUS performance by character actor Cliff Curtis. <\/p>\n<p><big><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerebert.com\/reviews\/the-dark-horse-2016\" target=\"blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">I reviewed <i>The Dark Horse<\/i> for Rogerebert.com.<\/a><\/big><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I really loved this movie about real-life Maori chess-phenom Genesis Potini. He was also bipolar. Chess was his only focus, the only thing that helped him organize his illness and his lufe. He devoted his life (he died in 2011) &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=115985\">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":[2550,2546,2308,2668],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115985"}],"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=115985"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":148346,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115985\/revisions\/148346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=115985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=115985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=115985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}