{"id":2513,"date":"2025-03-09T13:09:50","date_gmt":"2025-03-09T20:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/?p=2513"},"modified":"2025-03-09T14:00:37","modified_gmt":"2025-03-09T21:00:37","slug":"retro-streaming-and-movie-pass-adventures-novocaine-and-a-new-leaf-1970","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/09\/retro-streaming-and-movie-pass-adventures-novocaine-and-a-new-leaf-1970\/","title":{"rendered":"Retro Streaming and Movie Pass Adventures: Novocaine and A New Leaf (1970)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"825\" height=\"519\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/a-new-leaf-and-novocaine.jpg\" alt=\"Colorful collage of Jack Quaid in Novocaine and Walter Matthau in A New Leaf.\" class=\"wp-image-2514\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/a-new-leaf-and-novocaine.jpg 825w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/a-new-leaf-and-novocaine-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/a-new-leaf-and-novocaine-768x483.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 825px) 100vw, 825px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Novocaine<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/novocaine.png\" alt=\"Closeup of Jack Quaid's eyes and nose in Novocaine.\" class=\"wp-image-2515\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/novocaine.png 800w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/novocaine-300x38.png 300w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/novocaine-768x96.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This movie is a Jack Quaid Charm Delivery Device. Also: I look forward to the upcoming &#8220;Is this a Christmas movie?&#8221; arguments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My fake poster is an argument for pro-Christmas. The only reason I wish this was already on video is that I&#8217;d be able to get better source images.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/novocaine-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2517\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/novocaine-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/novocaine-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/novocaine-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/novocaine.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A New Leaf<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/a-new-leaf.png\" alt=\"Elaine May looking at Walter Matthau, who is wearing a helmet and not looking elsewhere. Their faces are only partially visible.\" class=\"wp-image-2516\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/a-new-leaf.png 800w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/a-new-leaf-300x38.png 300w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/a-new-leaf-768x96.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Part two of my Unplanned Walter Matthau Film Festival. It&#8217;s a little jarring to go from Matthau as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/08\/retro-movie-adventures-the-taking-of-pelham-one-two-three-1974\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"2503\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a schubbly transit cop in a gritty suspense story<\/a> to Matthau as a high society fop in an arch farce. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8230;and this movie is on video, but I still couldn&#8217;t get decent images. Maybe I just like making excuses for the declining quality of these posters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/a-new-leaf-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"A poster for A New Leaf weakly imitating the poster for Blade Runner.\" class=\"wp-image-2518\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/a-new-leaf-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/a-new-leaf-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/a-new-leaf-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/a-new-leaf.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two&#8230; love stories?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2514,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":10,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federated","footnotes":""},"categories":[161,63,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movie-pass-adventures","category-movies","category-photoshop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2513"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2522,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2513\/revisions\/2522"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}