{"id":1373,"date":"2010-10-11T20:51:20","date_gmt":"2010-10-11T19:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/reviews\/?p=1373"},"modified":"2010-11-08T18:32:17","modified_gmt":"2010-11-08T17:32:17","slug":"city-lights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/reviews\/2010\/10\/11\/city-lights\/","title":{"rendered":"City Lights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Charlie Chaplin&#8217;s 1931 silent comedy drama sees The Tramp fall in love with a beautiful, poor, blind flower girl. It is released on Dual Format (DVD + Blu-ray) on November 15 by Park Circus. <I>The Circus<\/I> and <I>The Chaplin Revue<\/I>, a collection of his short films, are released on the same day.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1374\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1374\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/city-lights.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[1373]\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/reviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/city-lights.jpg?resize=474%2C1188\" alt=\"\" title=\"Comic review by Andrew Cheverton\" width=\"474\" height=\"1188\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1374\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1374\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Comic review by Andrew Cheverton<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"info\">For more information on Andrew Cheverton, go to the <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.angrycandy.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Angry Candy website<\/A>.<\/div>\n<div id=\"expander\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charlie Chaplin&#8217;s 1931 silent comedy drama sees The Tramp fall in love with a beautiful, poor, blind flower girl.<br \/>\n<I><B>Comic strip review by Andrew Cheverton<\/I><\/B><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11,12],"tags":[137],"class_list":["post-1373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-check-it-out","category-comic-strip-reviews","tag-silent-cinema"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","wps_subtitle":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/purUP-m9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1867,"url":"http:\/\/www.electricsheepmagazine.co.uk\/reviews\/2011\/08\/01\/the-silent-house\/","url_meta":{"origin":1373,"position":0},"title":"The Silent House","author":"VirginieSelavy","date":"August 1, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Uruguayan director Gustavo Hern&#225ndez's claustrophobic chiller follows a young woman trapped in a dark house. 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