{"id":13654,"date":"2016-05-27T13:42:01","date_gmt":"2016-05-27T17:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=13654"},"modified":"2016-05-27T13:43:07","modified_gmt":"2016-05-27T17:43:07","slug":"epics-galore-admiral-michiel-de-ruyter-2015-exodus-1690-and-risen-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=13654","title":{"rendered":"Epics Galore: Admiral \/ Michiel de Ruyter (2015), Exodus (1690), and Risen (2016)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13660 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Exodus_BR.jpg\" alt=\"Exodus_BR\" width=\"120\" height=\"152\" \/>No time for a full-blown blog today &#8211; busy editing an upcoming podcast with <strong>Girl in the Photographs<\/strong>\u00a0composer Nima Fakhrara &#8211; but I&#8217;ve\u00a0posted \u00a0reviews of a trio of historical epics &#8211; the superb, action-packed bio-drama\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=13663\"><strong>Admiral<\/strong> \/ aka\u00a0<strong>Michiel de Ruyer<\/strong><\/a> (2015) from Mongrel Media on DVD; Otto Preminger&#8217;s sprawling and still-affecting film version of Leon Uris&#8217; novel on the founding of Israel,\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=13659\">Exodus<\/a><\/strong> (1960), new on Blu with restored multi-channel sound from Twilight Time; and Kevin Reynolds&#8217; sometimes inventive retelling of Christ&#8217;s resurrection in\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=13653\">Risen<\/a><\/strong> (2016) from Sony.<\/p>\n<p><em>Coming next:<\/em> Arrow Video\u2019s Gangster VIP set, book review of Noel Mellor&#8217;s\u00a0<strong>Adventures in VHS<\/strong>, and two Janis Joplin docs &#8211; Amy Berg&#8217;s\u00a0<strong>Janis: Little Girl Blue\u00a0<\/strong>(MVD Visual) + Howard Alk&#8217;s still unavailable CanCon classique\u00a0<strong>Janis\u00a0<\/strong>(1974).<\/p>\n<p>Cheers,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mark R. Hasan<\/strong>, Editor<br \/>\n<strong>KQEK.com <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reviews of three very distinct epics: the naval bio-drama Admiral \/ aka Michiel de Ruyer (Mongrel), the classic saga on the founding of Israel, Exodus (Twilight Time), and a new riff on Christ&#8217;s resurrection, Risen (Sony).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13668,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[4453,4461,2562,2563,4454,4446],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Exodus_featured.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8nuyW-3ye","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13654"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13654"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13677,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13654\/revisions\/13677"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}