{"id":253,"date":"2018-10-09T16:03:30","date_gmt":"2018-10-09T16:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tenjin.co.uk\/blog\/?p=253"},"modified":"2019-01-08T23:16:16","modified_gmt":"2019-01-08T23:16:16","slug":"film-review-a-simple-favour-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tenjin.co.uk\/blog\/?p=253","title":{"rendered":"Film Review: A Simple Favour (2018)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I\u2019ve had a bit of a soft spot for Blake Lively since I watched The Age of Adaline<\/a>. What? I liked it and I\u2019m not embarrassed to admit it!<\/p>\n

A simple favour follows a somewhat tightly-wound single-mom blogger called Stephanie (Anna Kendrick), and a wild, haute couture, live-life-to-the-full Emily (Blake Lively).<\/p>\n

They are extremes, but become bound together when Emily disappears, literally leaving Stephanie holding the baby (well\u2026 small child).<\/p>\n

This is a great mix of thriller, psychological thriller, mystery and comedy, and it\u2019s not clear at any point which one the writers and director were really aiming at.<\/p>\n

However, that doesn\u2019t matter, because the result of all of that is a great, light-hearted film that thunders along to deliver a nicely wrapped up, madcap and funny ending.<\/p>\n

I really enjoyed this film.<\/p>\n

I give it an easy 7.5\/10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve had a bit of a soft spot for Blake Lively since I watched The Age of Adaline. What? I liked it and I\u2019m not embarrassed to admit it! A simple favour follows a somewhat tightly-wound single-mom blogger called Stephanie (Anna Kendrick), and a wild, haute couture, live-life-to-the-full Emily (Blake Lively). They are extremes, but become bound together when Emily...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":357,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tenjin.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tenjin.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tenjin.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tenjin.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tenjin.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=253"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tenjin.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":265,"href":"https:\/\/tenjin.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions\/265"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tenjin.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tenjin.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tenjin.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tenjin.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}