{"id":9889,"date":"2015-06-05T20:00:52","date_gmt":"2015-06-06T01:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=9889"},"modified":"2015-06-02T17:54:48","modified_gmt":"2015-06-02T22:54:48","slug":"begin-again-2013-john-carney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/9889","title":{"rendered":"Begin Again (2013, John Carney)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Writer-director&#8217;s follow-up to <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/311\">Once<\/a><\/em>, looks shinier and has movie stars (Keira Knightley and Mark Ruffalo) instead of musicians.  Watched out of morbid interest.  Not entirely bad, though I wasn&#8217;t feeling the magic.<\/p>\n<p>Keira K is a fresh new singer, dumped by her rock star boyfriend after he got famous.  She sings a blandly pleasant tune at open-mic where formerly powerful label exec Ruffalo is having a Very Bad Day.  He hears her and it turns his pointless life around, as he dedicates himself to finding blandly pleasant arrangements for her songs to record &#8220;guerrilla-style&#8221; around the city with help from Cee-Lo Green&#8217;s backing band and Ruffalo&#8217;s estranged daughter on electric guitar.<\/p>\n<p>With Mos Def as Ruffalo&#8217;s business partner, Catherine Keener as his ex-wife and Hailee <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/5790\">True Grit<\/a><\/em> Steinfeld as his guitar-rockin&#8217; daughter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writer-director&#8217;s follow-up to Once, looks shinier and has movie stars (Keira Knightley and Mark Ruffalo) instead of musicians. Watched out of morbid interest. Not entirely bad, though I wasn&#8217;t feeling the magic. Keira K is a fresh new singer, dumped by her rock star boyfriend after he got famous. She sings a blandly pleasant tune [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1049,1484,80],"class_list":["post-9889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2010s","tag-keira-knightley","tag-musical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9889","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=9889"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9954,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9889\/revisions\/9954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}