{"id":985,"date":"2023-12-20T23:59:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-21T04:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/?p=985"},"modified":"2023-12-24T17:47:18","modified_gmt":"2023-12-24T22:47:18","slug":"the-ice-storm-wednesday-december-20th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/20\/the-ice-storm-wednesday-december-20th\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ice Storm. Tragicomedy at it&#8217;s best."},"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\/2023\/12\/ice5.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-992\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Ricci as Tricky Dick. &#8220;I&#8217;ll touch it, but that&#8217;s as far as it goes.&#8221;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Once again, a great night at NewScreen. I&#8217;m happy that regulars are turning up with friends&#8230; new blood! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ang Lee&#8217;s <em>The Ice Storm<\/em> was so good to watch again and, as always, great to watch with a room full of people. Although it&#8217;s ultimately quite a bleak story, it&#8217;s thought-provoking, and laced with plenty of laughs. Incidentally, it was set exactly 50 years ago. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And also&#8230; the return of <em>Evil Beaver<\/em>. lol<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0119349\/?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>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once again, a great night at NewScreen. I&#8217;m happy that regulars are turning up with friends&#8230; new blood! Ang Lee&#8217;s The Ice Storm was so good to watch again and, as always, great to watch with a room full of people. Although it&#8217;s ultimately quite a bleak story, it&#8217;s thought-provoking, and laced with plenty of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/20\/the-ice-storm-wednesday-december-20th\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Ice Storm. Tragicomedy at it&#8217;s best.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":987,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-985","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\/985","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=985"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":993,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985\/revisions\/993"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}