{"id":6376,"date":"2025-10-31T03:50:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T07:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reeldiscovery.x10host.com\/reel\/?p=6376"},"modified":"2025-11-13T13:34:38","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T18:34:38","slug":"ballad-of-a-small-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/reeldiscovery.x10host.com\/reel\/2025\/10\/31\/ballad-of-a-small-player\/","title":{"rendered":"Ballad of a Small Player"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"wpsocialite social-buttons large\"><\/ul>\n<p><strong>Rating: <\/strong>R<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Runtime:<\/strong> 101 minutes<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Director:<\/strong> Edward Berger (<em>Conclave, All Quiet on the Western Front<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Cast:<\/strong> Colin Farrell, Fala Chen, Tilda Swinton, Deannie Ip<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On this episode of <em>Reel Discovery<\/em>, Kristin follows a desperate gambler\u2019s downward spiral in Macau in Netflix\u2019s <em>Ballad of a Small Player.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Release Date:<\/strong> October 29, 2025 (Netflix)<\/p>\n\n\n<a class=\"wp-block-read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/reeldiscovery.x10host.com\/reel\/2025\/10\/31\/ballad-of-a-small-player\/\" target=\"_self\">Read more<\/a>\n\n\n<p>Listen now!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<script id='prx-p594060-embed' src='https:\/\/exchange.prx.org\/p\/594060\/embed.js?size=small'><\/script>\n\n\n\n\n<p>And read Kristin\u2019s full review of the movie on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nightsandweekends.com\/articles\/19\/NW1901095.php\">NightsAndWeekends.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-post-featured-image\"><img width=\"624\" height=\"351\" src=\"http:\/\/reeldiscovery.x10host.com\/reel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/BalladOfASmallPlayer-624x351.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Ballad of a Small Player\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"http:\/\/reeldiscovery.x10host.com\/reel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/BalladOfASmallPlayer-624x351.jpg 624w, http:\/\/reeldiscovery.x10host.com\/reel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/BalladOfASmallPlayer-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/reeldiscovery.x10host.com\/reel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/BalladOfASmallPlayer-1024x576.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/reeldiscovery.x10host.com\/reel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/BalladOfASmallPlayer-768x432.jpg 768w, http:\/\/reeldiscovery.x10host.com\/reel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/BalladOfASmallPlayer.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" \/><\/figure>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rating: R Runtime: 101 minutes Director: Edward Berger (Conclave, All Quiet on the Western Front) Cast: Colin Farrell, Fala Chen, Tilda Swinton, Deannie Ip On this episode of Reel Discovery, Kristin follows a desperate gambler\u2019s downward spiral in Macau in Netflix\u2019s Ballad of a Small Player. Release Date: October 29, 2025 (Netflix) Listen now! And [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6378,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20,11],"tags":[6542,634,6545,6543,6544,2107,2416,2989],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/reeldiscovery.x10host.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6376"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/reeldiscovery.x10host.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/reeldiscovery.x10host.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/reeldiscovery.x10host.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/reeldiscovery.x10host.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6376"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/reeldiscovery.x10host.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6380,"href":"http:\/\/reeldiscovery.x10host.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6376\/revisions\/6380"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/reeldiscovery.x10host.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/reeldiscovery.x10host.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/reeldiscovery.x10host.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/reeldiscovery.x10host.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}