Last week, a friend of mine tagged me in a Facebook challenge. Basically, you post something every day under a theme and tag someone else challenging them. It is the chain mail of social media. Normally, I don’t participate, but this them was right up my alley, movies. Here is the challenge: Ten movies that …
Category: Cinema
Jul 15
AMC and the Collapse of the Cinematic Experience
I live in a small suburb of Atlanta. When I grew up, this was Carmike Cinemas territory. The nearest AMC was a good thirty minutes away. So I grew up on Carmike’s mid-market approach to movie-going. When I heard AMC was buying Carmike, I was concerned my local theater would suddenly have a dramatic change. …