Felipe Bustillo
I took a look at theaters near me to compare movie showtimes and settled on going to the 6 p.m. movie showtime for the opening night of the new movie release
Spiral: From the Book of Saw at the IMAX theater near me in Fort Lauderdale.
I dragged my comedy-loving boyfriend with me and I think he might break up with me.
Kidding. I think? It’s unclear at the moment, but when we got home, he said to me, “There was one point during a really gory scene when I was cringing and watching through my fingers and I looked over at you and you were like this…” Then he pretended to be me, on the edge of my seat with hands folded calmly, looking up at the screen in wide-eyed wonder… SMILING.
Hollywood wants us to head back to the movie theaters
Matthew McConaughey talking about the importance of movie theaters.
“Movie theaters: they employ over 150,000 Americans. They are the unsung heroes who help bring movie magic to the big screen,”
Matthew McConaughey says. “Obviously, it’s been a very hard year for them – furloughs, closures, basically, the longest intermission that they ever could have imagined. Thanks to their dedication and resilience, theaters are coming back.”
We then get to hear from real people who work in movie theaters, including a couple that met while working at the movies!
Watch the video here:
My friend really wanted to see
Mortal Kombat on opening day, one of the many new movie releases out now in movie theaters. I agreed since, ya know, I write about movies for a living.
Here’s the honest truth: I barely know
anything about
Mortal Kombat. I have played the video game over the years––most recently in a bar filled with vintage arcade games in Philly––but I haven’t seen the 1995
Mortal Kombat movie or the 1997
Mortal Kombat: Annihilation. My friend said the 90s movies have horrible acting and less sophisticated effects, but fantastic fight scenes. I’ll take his word for it.
Apr 14, 2021
The last time I was at the movies, some friends of ours in our quarantine pod were kind enough to invite us to a movie theater they had rented for all the families in our pod. The movie showtime was a weekend afternoon, a.k.a the perfect time to take the kiddos to the theater. I
highly recommend a late afternoon showtime to check out these great movies for kids out in movie theaters now. In my B.C. era (before children), I would never have selected a movie showtime in the early afternoon. I do confess that even 10 years ago, my favorite time was either just before sunset or just after. There is nothing like the feeling of going to the movies on a hot summer day, packing away popcorn, and drinking something cold with the sun setting in the background, and watching a cool flick.