{"id":29655,"date":"2024-05-29T14:32:59","date_gmt":"2024-05-29T18:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/?p=29655"},"modified":"2024-05-29T14:50:16","modified_gmt":"2024-05-29T18:50:16","slug":"movie-review-if","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/blogs\/afternoons\/2024\/05\/movie-review-if\/","title":{"rendered":"Movie Review &#8211; IF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You guys! I highly recommend the movie IF.<\/p>\n<p>I went to see it last night and absolutely loved it.\u00a0 Written and directed by actor John Krasinski (The Office fame) IF is about a girl who discovers that she can see everyone&#8217;s imaginary friends (IFs) and sets out on a magical adventure to reconnect forgotten IFs with their kids.<\/p>\n<p>IF stars Ryan Reynolds, John Krasinski, Cailey Fleming, Fiona Shaw, and the voices of Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Louis Gossett Jr. and Steve Carell alongside many more.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a movie about magic and imagination.\u00a0 Believing in what you can&#8217;t see.<\/p>\n<p>I never had an imaginary friend as a kid, but now I&#8217;m wondering what my IF would have looked like.\u00a0 Because in this movie you get to meet all sorts of IFs.\u00a0 Created by each child they were once attached to.<\/p>\n<p>Ryan Reynolds is one of my favourite actors and I loved him in this role.\u00a0 Cailey Fleming was brilliant.\u00a0 She plays the 12 year-old girl Bea who went through something terrible and felt forced into\u00a0 having to grow up too fast.<\/p>\n<p>I laughed and I cried.\u00a0 Be prepared.\u00a0 That ending took me off guard.\u00a0 A reminder of what matters and the power of imagination.<\/p>\n<p>Well done and so worth the price of the movie ticket.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mb2187ZQtBE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"You guys! I highly recommend the movie IF. I went to see it last night and absolutely loved it.\u00a0 Written and directed by actor John Krasinski (The Office fame) IF is about a girl who discovers that she can see everyone&#8217;s imaginary friends (IFs) and sets out on a magical adventure to reconnect forgotten IFs","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":16001,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[6034,404],"class_list":["post-29655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afternoons","tag-if","tag-movie"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-26 18:14:14","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/foxfm.com\/blogs\/afternoons\/2024\/05\/movie-review-if\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29655"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29659,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29655\/revisions\/29659"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfgxfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}