{"id":1580,"date":"2026-01-08T23:59:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T04:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/?p=1580"},"modified":"2026-01-11T19:20:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T00:20:20","slug":"no-other-choice-thursday-january-8th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/08\/no-other-choice-thursday-january-8th\/","title":{"rendered":"No Other Choice. I am king for the night!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/NOC_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1586\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Park Chan-wook does it again! <em>No Other Choice<\/em> is deliciously entertaining combination of darkness and humor, all, of course, delivered up with a ton of style. Awards material? I hope so. In the meantime, I&#8217;m thinking that <em>The<\/em> <em>Handmaiden<\/em> is ripe for another look. Hmm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So what&#8217;s this &#8220;king&#8221; business? The French (and others) celebrate Epiphany (January 6th) during the month, with a Galette des rois (Kings cake), a buttery sweet pie made of puff pastry with almond cream filling. It is sliced up and distributed among the guests and, inside one piece will be found the f\u00e8ve (a trinket, coin, bean, or even a small plastic baby). Whoever finds the f\u00e8ve is crowned king or queen for the night. The prize tonight was meant to be free drinks for the monarch, but I won, so the point was moot. Not a fix, I promise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thanks to Annalise for baking, and bringing. Fun! <\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1527793\/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"44\" height=\"20\" src=\"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/imdb.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-43\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Park Chan-wook does it again! No Other Choice is deliciously entertaining combination of darkness and humor, all, of course, delivered up with a ton of style. Awards material? I hope so. In the meantime, I&#8217;m thinking that The Handmaiden is ripe for another look. Hmm. So what&#8217;s this &#8220;king&#8221; business? The French (and others) celebrate &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/08\/no-other-choice-thursday-january-8th\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">No Other Choice. I am king for the night!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1583,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movies","category-newscreen-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1580"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1588,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1580\/revisions\/1588"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}