{"id":8611,"date":"2017-04-17T17:46:43","date_gmt":"2017-04-17T22:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ragtagcinema.org\/blog\/?p=8611"},"modified":"2017-04-17T17:46:43","modified_gmt":"2017-04-17T22:46:43","slug":"free-fire-the-lost-city-of-z-open-friday-april-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/free-fire-the-lost-city-of-z-open-friday-april-21\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Fire opens Friday, April 21"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-8615 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ragtagcinema.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/free_fire_ver16_xlg-700x525.jpeg\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"synopsis text-content\">Bold, breathless and wickedly fun, Free Fire is an electrifying comedy-thriller about an arms deal that goes spectacularly and explosively wrong. Acclaimed filmmaker Ben Wheatley (Kill List, High Rise) propels the audience head-on into quite possibly the most epic shootout ever seen on film as he crafts a spectacular parody\u2014and biting critique\u2014of the insanity of gun violence. Everyone\u2019s got a gun, and absolutely no one is in control.Set in a colorful yet gritty 1970s Boston, Free Fire opens with Justine (Oscar\u00ae winner Brie Larson), a mysterious American businesswoman, and her wise-cracking associate Ord (Armie Hammer) arranging a black-market weapons deal in a deserted warehouse between IRA arms buyer Chris (Cillian Murphy) and shifty South African gun runner Vernon (Sharlto Copley). What starts as a polite if uneasy exchange soon goes south when tensions escalate and shots are fired, quickly leading to a full-on Battle Royale where it\u2019s every man (and woman) for themselves.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"summary_text\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bold, breathless and wickedly fun, Free Fire is an electrifying comedy-thriller about an arms deal that goes spectacularly and explosively wrong. Acclaimed filmmaker Ben Wheatley (Kill List, High Rise) propels the audience head-on into quite possibly the most epic shootout ever seen on film as he crafts a spectacular parody\u2014and biting critique\u2014of the insanity of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":8614,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news1"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ragtagcinema.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}