{"id":40503,"date":"2025-11-14T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=40503"},"modified":"2025-11-13T13:23:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T18:23:09","slug":"weapons-2025-written-directed-by-zach-cregger-starring-julia-garner-josh-brolin-and-amy-madigan-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=40503","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Weapons&#8221; (2025) written &amp; directed by Zach Cregger; starring Julia Garner, Josh Brolin and Amy Madigan \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2025\/z111425zview_weapons.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"625\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Weapons <\/strong><\/em>(2025)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director:<strong> Zach Cregger<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Zach Cregger<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Julia Garner, Josh Brolin, Cary Christopher, Benedict Wong, Anny Jules<\/strong>, <strong>Howard St. John, Ali Burch, Alden Ehrenreich, Whitmer Thomas, Melissa Ponzio<\/strong>\u00a0and <strong>Amy Madigan.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>Last night at 2:17 am every child from Mrs. Gandy&#8217;s class woke up, got out of bed, went downstairs, opened the front door, walked into the dark &#8230;and they never came back.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Plot\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">At 2:17 am, while nearly everyone in Maybrook, Pennsylvania, was fast asleep, 17 children got out of their beds, quietly left their homes and disappeared.\u00a0 Several security cameras caught the children running from their homes into the night.\u00a0 Police were stymied.\u00a0 The children vanished with no clues as to where or why.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When it became clear that all of the children were in Justine Gandy&#8217;s third grade class, she became the main suspect.\u00a0 Police questioned Ms. Gandy but there was nothing linking her to the disappearance.\u00a0 It was a strange case. All but one of the children in Justine Gandy&#8217;s class were missing.\u00a0 Only one, Alex Lilly, showed up for school the next day.\u00a0 Neither Alex or his parents had any idea what\/who was behind the missing children.<\/p>\n<p>Justine Gandy, frustrated with police efforts decides to investigate.\u00a0 She believes that Alex&#8217;s parents know more than they are saying.<\/p>\n<p>She will find out just how wrong she is&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Archer Graff, the parent of a missing student, frustrated with police efforts decides to investigate.\u00a0 He believes Justine Gandy knows more than she is saying.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He&#8217;ll find out just how wrong he is&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Ring the bell.\u00a0 School&#8217;s in.<\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\">Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Netflix premiered <em>Weapons<\/em> at 2:17 am, the same time as the disappearance of the children.<\/p>\n<p>Amy Madigan was perfect!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><strong>Weapons <\/strong><\/em>(2025) rates 4 of 5 stars.<\/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\/2025\/z111425zview_weapons2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"278\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weapons (2025) Director: Zach Cregger Screenplay: Zach Cregger Stars: Julia Garner, Josh Brolin, Cary Christopher, Benedict Wong, Anny Jules, Howard<\/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":[17,53,54,65,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-horror","category-movies","category-trivia","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40503","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=40503"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40504,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40503\/revisions\/40504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}