{"id":1787,"date":"2026-05-28T23:59:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T04:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/?p=1787"},"modified":"2026-05-30T09:35:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T14:35:25","slug":"payday-thursday-may-28th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/28\/payday-thursday-may-28th\/","title":{"rendered":"Payday. NewScreen takes it to the bank."},"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\/05\/PD2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1800\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In his review for The New York Times, Peter Schjeldahl calls Payday &#8220;a brilliant, nasty little chrome\u2010plated razor blade of a movie.&#8221; I couldn&#8217;t say it better in so few words, so let&#8217;s leave it there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Knowing that some of my most stalwart NewScreen attendees would be unable to attend tonight for one reason or another, I really didn&#8217;t know what to expect, but hey&#8230; the show must go on, right? Each sounding of the buzzer, however, marked the arrival of another pleasantly surprising guest, and, before we knew it, we had a great crew installed, complete with the first watermelon of the season (thank you Vera!), some of which found its way into yummy martinis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And then&#8230; the movie. It had been several years since I had last seen it, and I&#8217;d forgotten much of it. What a ride!<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0069067\/?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>In his review for The New York Times, Peter Schjeldahl calls Payday &#8220;a brilliant, nasty little chrome\u2010plated razor blade of a movie.&#8221; I couldn&#8217;t say it better in so few words, so let&#8217;s leave it there. Knowing that some of my most stalwart NewScreen attendees would be unable to attend tonight for one reason or &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/28\/payday-thursday-may-28th\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Payday. NewScreen takes it to the bank.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1789,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1787","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\/1787","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=1787"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1799,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1787\/revisions\/1799"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}