{"id":1696,"date":"2026-03-19T23:59:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T04:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/?p=1696"},"modified":"2026-03-29T13:56:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T18:56:18","slug":"roger-dodger-thursday-march-19th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/19\/roger-dodger-thursday-march-19th\/","title":{"rendered":"Roger Dodger. Treasure found in the &#8220;crates&#8221;."},"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\/RDThumb2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1711\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Tell me about your first time.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This week I once again eschewed the very modern, to look back fondly at what seems like a very different New York City. Has the city changed that much, or is it me? Maybe both. Whatever the case, Dylan Kidd&#8217;s <em>Roger Dodger<\/em> really hit the spot, with a very snappy script, and great performances all round (fascinating to watch the young Jesse Eisenberg, already shining). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For my part, I was happy to enable a bunch of people forget about the &#8220;now&#8221; and get lost in the &#8220;then&#8221; for 106 minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0299117\/?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>This week I once again eschewed the very modern, to look back fondly at what seems like a very different New York City. Has the city changed that much, or is it me? Maybe both. Whatever the case, Dylan Kidd&#8217;s Roger Dodger really hit the spot, with a very snappy script, and great performances all &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/19\/roger-dodger-thursday-march-19th\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Roger Dodger. Treasure found in the &#8220;crates&#8221;.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1697,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1696","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\/1696","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=1696"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1712,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1696\/revisions\/1712"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}