Paul Thomas Anderson returned to form (by which I mean, Magnolia form… it’s not as though his film-making has been too shabby in the inerim!) with the multi-layered and star-studded Licorice Pizza. Alana Haim and Cooper Hoffman are officially stars.

NewScreen continues to return to form too. Tonight was one of those nights that I felt hesitant about starting the movie. Conversation at the bar was lively, with some first-timers, unable to hide their delight at this “new discovery”, striking up conversations with our more “regular” guests, some of whom hadn’t attended for many years. But… the show must go on, and so it did. As expected, we were mesmerized.

The old “Aprez” playlist got dusted off too, and although I know it’s just wrong, we danced once again to that perennial favorite, Step In The Name Of Love, by the disgraced R.Kelly. Oops.

Our very short feature tonight was a mid-eighties Wendy’s commercial poking fun at the lack of choice in the then Soviet Union. And, by the way… Fuck Putin.