{"id":42588,"date":"2026-09-21T07:24:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T11:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=42588"},"modified":"2026-09-19T21:33:46","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T01:33:46","slug":"asphalt-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=42588","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Asphalt City&#8221; (2023) starring Sean Penn &amp; Tye Sheridan \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2026\/z092126review_aspcity.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"758\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><i>Asphalt City <\/i>(2023)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Director: <strong>Jean-St\u00e9phane Sauvaire<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: \u00a0<strong>Ryan King, Ben Mac Brown; <\/strong>based on <a href=\"https:\/\/link.amazon\/B07CDxmjT\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BLACK FLIES<\/a> by <strong>Shannon Burke<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars:\u00a0 <strong>Tye Sheridan, Sean Penn, Gbenga Akinnagbe, Raquel Nave, Kali Reis, Michael Pitt, Katherine Waterston <\/strong>and <strong>Mike Tyson<\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>Welcome to the frontlines.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ollie Cross is a rookie paramedic teamed with veteran E.M.T. Gene Rutkovsky on the night shift in New York City.\u00a0 On each call one or more people&#8217;s lives are on the line, sometimes including Ollie and Gene themselves.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I tapped out after about thirty minutes.\u00a0 I didn&#8217;t care for any of the characters.\u00a0 If the intent was to show EMT&#8217;s face dangers on every call, that the public can be difficut to serve and death is always near.\u00a0 Mission accomplished.\u00a0 I didn&#8217;t need another hour and a half of unrelenting bleak drama.\u00a0 Of course your mileage may vary.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: initial;\"><strong><i>Asphalt City <\/i>(2023)<\/strong> rates 1 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_f.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\/2026\/z092126review_aspcity2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"241\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asphalt City (2023) Director: Jean-St\u00e9phane Sauvaire Screenplay: \u00a0Ryan King, Ben Mac Brown; based on BLACK FLIES by Shannon Burke. Stars:\u00a0<\/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_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-movies","category-z-view"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42588","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=42588"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42860,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42588\/revisions\/42860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}