{"id":3746,"date":"2018-04-20T10:00:55","date_gmt":"2018-04-20T14:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.pages.roanoke.edu\/?p=3746"},"modified":"2018-04-20T10:00:55","modified_gmt":"2018-04-20T14:00:55","slug":"movie-reviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/?p=3746","title":{"rendered":"Recent Thriller, Horror Movies Cause A Stir In Theaters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Written by Alexandra Gautier<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">If horror and thriller films are your cup of tea, I suggest popping the popcorn and heading to your nearest movie theater to see the top grossing films of the weekend.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dwayne Johnson stars in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rampage<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> as primatologist Davis Okoye who has a close relationship to silverback gorilla, George, who falls victim to a genetic experiment that mutates him into a colossal ape. A similar fate befalls other animals across the continent and Okoye is tasked with saving them. This film is leading in the box office this weekend, grossing $35,753,093, according to Box Office Mojo.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">John Krasinski stars alongside wife Emily Blunt in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A Quiet Place<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, where their family tries to survive a monster that hunts prey with its keen hearing. The movie \u201cplays on elemental fears with a ruthlessly intelligent creature feature that\u2019s as original as it is scary\u201d as stated by Rotten Tomatoes critics, who rate the movie 8.1\/10. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Truth or Dare<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> stars Lucy Hale and Tyler Posey who depict a group of teenagers playing a game of truth or dare that goes awry. Players who fail to be truthful or complete a dare must face deadly consequences. Despite raking in $18,667,855 this weekend, overall, the movie disappointed audience members and critics called it a \u201cmediocre\u201d play on the traditional truth or dare game itself. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written by Alexandra Gautier If horror and thriller films are your cup of tea, I suggest popping the popcorn and heading to your nearest movie theater to see the top grossing films of the weekend. Dwayne Johnson stars in Rampage as primatologist Davis Okoye who has a close relationship to silverback gorilla, George, who falls&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3747,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}