{"id":30507,"date":"2022-09-16T07:02:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-16T11:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=30507"},"modified":"2022-09-16T09:40:22","modified_gmt":"2022-09-16T13:40:22","slug":"cold-in-july-2014-starring-michael-c-hall-sam-shepard-don-johnson-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=30507","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Cold in July&#8221;\u00a0(2014) Starring Michael C. Hall, Sam Shepard &#038; Don Johnson \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z091622zview_coldinjuly.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"741\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Cold in July<\/strong><\/em><em><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>(2014)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director:\u00a0 <strong>Jim Mickle<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay by: \u00a0<strong>Nick Damici, Jim Mickle<\/strong> based on the novel, <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3RAdKQK\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Cold in July<\/strong><\/a> by <strong>Joe R. Lansdale<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Starring: <strong>Michael C. Hall, Sam Shepard, Don Johnson, Vinessa Shaw, Lanny Flaherty <\/strong>\u00a0and <strong>Wyatt Russell<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>How many men can one bullet kill?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Overview:\u00a0 Beware of spoilers&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When Richard Dane (Hall) accidentally shoots and kills Freddy Russell, an intruder in his home, the Chief of Police assures Dane that he did nothing wrong.\u00a0 The intruder is a known thief who comes from a family of criminals.\u00a0 In fact, the intruder&#8217;s father, Ben Russell (Shepard) will be released from prison later in the week.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ben Russell ins a real hard case.\u00a0 He confronts Richard about killing his son and makes a veiled threat to get retribution.\u00a0 When Richard goes to the police, the Chief says that until Ben does something to break the law, nothing can be done.\u00a0 Richard starts to storm out of the police station when he sees a wanted poster for Freddy Russell&#8230; and the photo on it is NOT the man that Richard killed!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Richard discovers that the Police Chief is lying to him and Ben Russell&#8230; but why?\u00a0 If he can convince Ben that they&#8217;re both being played, perhaps they can solve the mystery&#8230; if they&#8217;re not killed first.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>A Cold Day in July<\/em> is a great adaptation of Joe Lansdale&#8217;s novel.\u00a0 Hall and Shepard are excellent.\u00a0 Wyatt Russell has a small, but important role and nails it.\u00a0 Don Johnson was born to play Jim Bob Luke.\u00a0 I could see a movie or series based on his character.\u00a0 <em>A Cold Day in July<\/em> starts as one thing, morphs into a mystery of why the cops are lying and ends as a rescue mission by three men who would have never been friends.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font); font-size: inherit;\"><em><strong>Cold in July <\/strong><\/em>earns 4 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_b.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z091622zview_coldinjuly2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"162\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cold in July\u00a0(2014) Director:\u00a0 Jim Mickle Screenplay by: \u00a0Nick Damici, Jim Mickle based on the novel, Cold in July by<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[52,17,51,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-celebs","category-crime","category-movies","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30507"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30558,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30507\/revisions\/30558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}