{"id":7073,"date":"2011-12-18T15:55:57","date_gmt":"2011-12-18T20:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=7073"},"modified":"2011-12-18T15:55:57","modified_gmt":"2011-12-18T20:55:57","slug":"attack-the-block-2011-joe-cornish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/7073","title":{"rendered":"Attack the Block (2011, Joe Cornish)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We open on five mumbly hoodie youths mugging a white woman &#8211; and the youths turn out to be the protagonists.  So I was on the movie&#8217;s side from the start, but it only gets better.  After an alien from a freshly-landed meteorite claws Moses, the mini-gang-leader, he kills it and takes it to Nick Frost&#8217;s weed room.  But a hundred more meteors land, carrying far more dangerous creatures &#8211; pitch-black hairy wolf-bears with glowing teeth, looking for the slain female.  So the kids mount a defense against rampaging aliens using knives, swords and fireworks, joined by the still-irritable white woman (Jodie Whittaker, title character in <em>Venus<\/em>) and opposed by cops and a mad drug dealer.<\/p>\n<p>Despite all the bloody death, the movie is mostly an action\/comedy &#8211; the rare successful one.  It builds to one of the sweetest minutes of film I&#8217;ve seen all year, Moses carrying the group&#8217;s full arsenal racing towards a gas-filled apartment, leaping over the blind beasts under a shower of slow-motion sparks.<\/p>\n<p>Luke Treadaway (one of the twins from <em>Brothers of the Head<\/em>) plays a stoner nature-channel enthusiast who helps figure out the aliens&#8217; motivation.  Writer\/director Cornish goes way back with Edgar Wright and just cowrote Spielberg&#8217;s <em>Tintin<\/em> movie, so this is his big year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We open on five mumbly hoodie youths mugging a white woman &#8211; and the youths turn out to be the protagonists. So I was on the movie&#8217;s side from the start, but it only gets better. After an alien from a freshly-landed meteorite claws Moses, the mini-gang-leader, he kills it and takes it to Nick [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1049,712,102,136,1243,1460,1443],"class_list":["post-7073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2010s","tag-aliens","tag-britain","tag-drugs","tag-gangsters","tag-joe-cornish","tag-nick-frost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7073"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7095,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7073\/revisions\/7095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}