{"id":264,"date":"2008-03-01T10:45:07","date_gmt":"2008-03-01T00:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/03\/01\/new-rule-number-one\/"},"modified":"2008-03-01T11:20:44","modified_gmt":"2008-03-01T01:20:44","slug":"new-rule-number-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/03\/01\/new-rule-number-one\/","title":{"rendered":"New: Rule Number One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Rule Number One<\/em> is a new supernatural thriller from Kelvin Tong, whom I last heard from as director of the excellent Singapore ghost flick <em>The Maid<\/em>. This new one follows the fortunes of an injured rookie cop, Lee, assigned to the Miscellaneous Affairs Department (MAD) of the local police force. MAD investigates bizarre, appparently supernatural call-ins, but according to his assigned partner &#8212; the world-weary and cynical Inspector Wong &#8212; the first rule of their job is that &#8220;There are no ghosts&#8221;. The trouble is, something isn&#8217;t obeying the rules.<\/p>\n<p>Tong clearly has a bigger budget here and has learned some added slickness. The result definitely looks like it has potential.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Here is the newly released trailer, with English subtitles:<\/p>\n<p><center><object height=\"355\" width=\"425\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/4djWoQsaQJU\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/4djWoQsaQJU\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" height=\"355\" width=\"425\"><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">The Backbrain&#8217;s review of <em>The Maid<\/em> is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.roberthood.net\/reviews\/randomstuff5.html#maid\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rule Number One is a new supernatural thriller from Kelvin Tong, whom I last heard from as director of the excellent Singapore ghost flick The Maid. This new one follows the fortunes of an injured rookie cop, Lee, assigned to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/03\/01\/new-rule-number-one\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,20,26,3,50],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}