{"id":37994,"date":"2024-12-15T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-15T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=37994"},"modified":"2024-12-14T22:37:46","modified_gmt":"2024-12-15T03:37:46","slug":"speak-no-evil-2024-starring-james-mcavoy-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=37994","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Speak No Evil&#8221; (2024) starring James McAvoy \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2024\/z121524zview_speaknoevil.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"792\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><i>Speak No Evil <\/i>(2024)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Director: \u00a0<strong>James Watkins<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>James Watkins<\/strong><strong>;<\/strong> based on <em>Speak No Evil<\/em> by <strong>Christian Tafdrup<\/strong> and <strong>Mads Tafdrup<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>James McAvoy, Mackenzie Davis, Scoot McNairy, Aisling Franciosi, Alix West Lefler <\/strong>and <strong>Dan Hough<\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: None.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Daltons, Louise, Ben and their daughter Agnes are on vacation in Italy.\u00a0 The family has gone through a rough patch and needed a break.\u00a0 While there they meet Paddy, Ciara and their son Ant.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ant and Agnes are both pretty shy, so their parents are happy to see how well the kids get along.\u00a0 Ben and Paddy really hit it off as well.\u00a0 The families end up spending time together.\u00a0 When vacations are over and everyone is to return home, Paddy invites the Dalton&#8217;s to come visit any time.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Back at home things aren&#8217;t improving for the Dalton&#8217;s.\u00a0 So when they get a postcard invite from Paddy, they decide to take the offer.\u00a0 Louise isn&#8217;t big on the idea, but agrees because Ben really wants to go.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">At Paddy and Ciara&#8217;s house, Louise gets vibes that things aren&#8217;t right.\u00a0 She feels uneasy but says nothing.\u00a0 As the weekend progresses, Louise and Ben realize coming was a mistake.<\/p>\n<p>But it is too late.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Based on the 2022 Danish film of the same name.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">James McAvoy is perfect as the alpha male. Mackenzie Davis is believable as the mother who slowly realizes the danger that her family is in. When she turns into mama bear it works.\u00a0 She&#8217;s tough but not a superhero. Dan Hough (in his feature film debut) more than holds his own.<\/p>\n<p><strong><i>Speak No Evil <\/i><\/strong>is a fun ride.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: initial;\"><strong><em><i>Speak No Evil <\/i>(2024) <\/em><\/strong>rates 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\/2024\/z121524zview_speaknoevil2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"223\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speak No Evil (2024) Director: \u00a0James Watkins Screenplay: James Watkins; based on Speak No Evil by Christian Tafdrup and Mads<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":""},"categories":[17,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","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\/37994","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=37994"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37995,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37994\/revisions\/37995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}