{"id":67397,"date":"2015-12-16T06:08:38","date_gmt":"2015-12-16T11:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=67397"},"modified":"2015-12-16T06:08:38","modified_gmt":"2015-12-16T11:08:38","slug":"its-movie-night-bro-top-gun-shawshank-bring-male-bonding-to-national-film-registry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/12\/16\/its-movie-night-bro-top-gun-shawshank-bring-male-bonding-to-national-film-registry\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s movie night, bro: \u2018Top Gun,\u2019 \u2018Shawshank\u2019 bring male bonding to National Film Registry"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_67398\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-67398\" style=\"width: 851px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/58881_577544172258401_1164680488_n.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-67398\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-67398\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/58881_577544172258401_1164680488_n.jpg\" alt=\"Tom Cruise portrayed Lieutenant Pete &quot;Maverick&quot; Mitchell, a young Naval aviator aboard the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise, in the 1986 film &quot;Top Gun.&quot; (Facebook photo)\" width=\"851\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/58881_577544172258401_1164680488_n.jpg 851w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/58881_577544172258401_1164680488_n-300x111.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/58881_577544172258401_1164680488_n-768x284.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 851px) 100vw, 851px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-67398\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tom Cruise portrayed Lieutenant Pete Mitchell, a young Naval aviator aboard the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise, in the 1986 film &#8220;Top Gun.&#8221; (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/topgunmovie\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook photo<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2013 It\u2019s a bro-centric year for movies added to the prestigious National Film Registry.<\/p>\n<p>The Library of Congress announced Wednesday that \u201cTop Gun\u201d and \u201cThe Shawshank Redemption,\u201d two of the most popular male-bonding movies of all time, have been tapped for preservation.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019ll be joined by an all-male quartet that\u2019s about to get an all-female reboot \u2013 the gang from \u201cGhostbusters.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Each year, the library picks 25 movies to preserve for their cultural, historic or artistic importance. The list is always eclectic and, as usual, includes some titles that are much older, experimental or otherwise obscure.<\/p>\n<p>And then there are the crowd-pleasers. \u201cThe Shawshank Redemption\u201d is a mainstay atop the Internet Movie Database poll of the top 250 movies of all time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2013 It\u2019s a bro-centric year for movies added to the prestigious National Film Registry. The Library of Congress announced &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":67398,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,106],"tags":[1080],"class_list":["post-67397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","category-hollywood","tag-ap","mauthors-ben-nuckols","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}