That question was recently put to me, a newspaper columnist and movie reviewer who until the pandemic hit had an unbroken steak of seeing two to six movies a week for three decades.

First, let me say that yes, there has been some serious withdrawal. I grew up losing myself in movie theaters and have been glad to make that a part of my job here.

Sometimes the movies were good, sometimes bad and often just so-so, quality dipping in recent years.

But they were always there, a way to escape the everyday for an hour or two by getting lost in the stories playing out larger than life.

When that was suddenly gone, it left a hole, one I lost little time replacing with content on a TV screen, turning to screening services already in place, HBO, cable channels and a few newly acquired pathways.

For just a while early on, I found myself creating my own sort of “James Bond” festival, screening as many of the films in the series as I could get access to.

Because I’m a purist, I started with the Sean Connery years, still my favorites, then shifted to my second favorite Bond as 007, Daniel Craig, watching each and every one of his films. When those played out, I went to my third favorite Bond, Pierce Brosnan, and watched his films.