{"id":570,"date":"2022-04-14T23:59:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-15T04:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/?p=570"},"modified":"2022-04-18T09:37:18","modified_gmt":"2022-04-18T14:37:18","slug":"shiva-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/14\/shiva-baby\/","title":{"rendered":"Shiva Baby &#8211; Oy Vey!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/shiv3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-573\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p>Emma Seligman\u2019s debut feature, <em>Shiva Baby,\u00a0<\/em>made us cringe tonight&#8230; in the way that we like to cringe. Although it&#8217;s not a horror movie, it almost could be, with new plot twists coming hard and fast, spiraling ever downward with every glass of wine Danielle (Rachel Sennott &#8211; excellent) knocks back, and every staccato note of Ariel Marx&#8217;s haunting score.\u00a0 The cast is all solid, but Dianna Agron brought another level of tension, with her knockout performance as Kim, a Westchester blonde &#8220;Shiksa&#8221; entrepreneur (she&#8217;s actually Jewish btw). Perfect. <\/p>\n<p>Our short tonight was the vintage <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8Uee_mcxvrw&amp;list=RD8Uee_mcxvrw&amp;start_radio=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>I Fink U Freaky<\/em><\/a>, by Die Antwoord. Dark stuff all night!<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt11317142\/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"44\" height=\"20\" src=\"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/imdb.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-43\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emma Seligman\u2019s debut feature, Shiva Baby,\u00a0made us cringe tonight&#8230; in the way that we like to cringe. Although it&#8217;s not a horror movie, it almost could be, with new plot twists coming hard and fast, spiraling ever downward with every glass of wine Danielle (Rachel Sennott &#8211; excellent) knocks back, and every staccato note of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/14\/shiva-baby\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Shiva Baby &#8211; Oy Vey!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":571,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movies","category-newscreen-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=570"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":583,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570\/revisions\/583"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}