{"id":1687,"date":"2026-03-05T23:59:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T04:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/?p=1687"},"modified":"2026-03-08T18:17:41","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T23:17:41","slug":"hardcore-thursday-march-5th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/05\/hardcore-thursday-march-5th\/","title":{"rendered":"Hardcore? Yes. Funny? Yes again!"},"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\/03\/HC2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1693\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Nothing to see here, mister.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To be honest, I can&#8217;t remember whether I ever saw <em>Hardcore<\/em> back in the day (damn! I was 27 when it came out!), but a recent recommendation prompted me to check it out. What a great movie. The story is gritty, grimy, sexy and exciting enough&#8230;  there&#8217;s plenty of action, but beyond that, Schrader manages to inject a lot of laugh-out-loud moments. &#8220;My name is Dick Black.&#8221; proclaims the only African American at a casting for a porno movie. Hysterical.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thanks for suggesting this A.P. You&#8217;re 2 for 2.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0079271\/?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>To be honest, I can&#8217;t remember whether I ever saw Hardcore back in the day (damn! I was 27 when it came out!), but a recent recommendation prompted me to check it out. What a great movie. The story is gritty, grimy, sexy and exciting enough&#8230; there&#8217;s plenty of action, but beyond that, Schrader manages &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/05\/hardcore-thursday-march-5th\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hardcore? Yes. Funny? Yes again!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1689,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1687","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=1687"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1694,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1687\/revisions\/1694"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}