{"id":8105,"date":"2019-12-07T12:59:20","date_gmt":"2019-12-07T17:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/?p=8105"},"modified":"2019-12-07T12:59:24","modified_gmt":"2019-12-07T17:59:24","slug":"review-little-joe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/?p=8105","title":{"rendered":"Review: LITTLE JOE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Creepy Plant Sci-Fi Fails to Germinate<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"192\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Man-and-Camera-NO-FIX-5-10-1-192x300.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5902\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Man-and-Camera-NO-FIX-5-10-1-192x300.png 192w, https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Man-and-Camera-NO-FIX-5-10-1-656x1024.png 656w, https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Man-and-Camera-NO-FIX-5-10-1-768x1198.png 768w, https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Man-and-Camera-NO-FIX-5-10-1-400x624.png 400w, https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Man-and-Camera-NO-FIX-5-10-1-433x675.png 433w, https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Man-and-Camera-NO-FIX-5-10-1-692x1080.png 692w, https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Man-and-Camera-NO-FIX-5-10-1.png 861w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 192px) 100vw, 192px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"212\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/littlejoe1-212x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8106\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/littlejoe1-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/littlejoe1-400x566.jpg 400w, https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/littlejoe1-477x675.jpg 477w, https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/littlejoe1.jpg 707w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 212px) 100vw, 212px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This intellectual science fiction drama would have been much more effective as a short segment of an anthology series (see \u201cBlack Mirror\u201d or the old \u201cThe Ray Bradbury Theater\u201d). Stretching this small story to feature-length saps it of any tension and leaves the viewer checking his or her watch. What\u2019s worse is that \u201cLittle Joe\u201d fails to capitalize on the impressive cast, which includes \u201cInto the Badlands\u201d star Emily Beecham.<br><br>Read the rest of Jonathan&#8217;s &#8220;Little Joe&#8221; review online and in print in The Times-Herald and at Newnan.com: <a href=\"https:\/\/newnan.com\/2019\/12\/06\/little-joe-creepy-plant-sci-fi-fails-to-germinate\/\">https:\/\/newnan.com\/2019\/12\/06\/little-joe-creepy-plant-sci-fi-fails-to-germinate\/<\/a><br><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting idea for a short film has trouble translating to feature length.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[1853,1854,1534,103,104],"class_list":["post-8105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-ben-wishaw","tag-emily-beecham","tag-hard-science-fiction","tag-sci-fi","tag-science-fiction","no-thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8105"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8108,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8105\/revisions\/8108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}