Entries in moviegoing (239)
Back to the Movie Theaters: Lynn Sees "Gunda"
Monday, May 3, 2021 at 2:35PM By Lynn Lee
a sad strip mall interior for happy experiences
Until yesterday, the last movie I saw in a theater was Emma – on March 7, 2020, just before the reality of COVID-19 descended on me and most people I knew. If you’d told me that the next time I’d be in a movie theater would be nearly 14 months later, in a tiny, crappy arthouse joint in a suburban Virginia strip mall, and that the movie would be an idiosyncratic black-and-white documentary about a brood sow, I probably wouldn’t have believed you. And yet that is exactly where I found myself Sunday afternoon.
It wasn’t the return to moviegoing I’d envisioned since my husband and I got our second Pfizer dose in early April...
Gunda, Team Experience, documentaries, moviegoing, pigs, zoology Marvel Cinematic Universe - New tease and theatrical dates
Monday, May 3, 2021 at 10:21AM by Nathaniel R
Marvel Studios released a big "back to the movies" video to celebrate the communal experience of movie-going. You get tiny slivers of their past "phases" and sneak peaks of all four films coming in 2021 except the Christmas-time Spider-Man (so we'll assume there isn't yet footage available). The most "exciting" of which for all it's 'what will this be like?' mystery is The Eternals directed by freshly double-Oscared Chloe Zhao from. We get some wide shots but no glimpses of the action except Angelina Jolie raising a sword. It will be good to have her back on the big screen where she belongs! The "tease" and release dates after the jump...
Black Widow, Eternals, MCU, Shang-Chi, The Fantastic Four, moviegoing, release dates, superheroes John Waters @ 75: Polyester (1981)
Friday, April 23, 2021 at 2:00PM Team Experience is celebrating John Waters for his 75th birthday this week
by Eric Blume
John Waters’ 1981 film Polyester satirizes the “women’s picture” genre, but in the way that only Waters would spin it. His heroine, Francine Fishpaw, played of course by muse Divine, is trapped in a horrific marriage to the owner of the local porn movie palace. Her daughter is a nympho and her son has taken his foot fetish to a comically violent place. Sex and vice surround Francine, and she’s just soldiering on, nobly of course.
The beauty of Waters and his sensibility is this: imagine someone making this movie today. You can’t, because the basic elements are too far out there...
Divine, John Waters, Tab Hunter, moviegoing Lunchtime Poll: When will you go back to movie theaters?
Tuesday, February 23, 2021 at 1:20PM 
Yesterday they announced that movie theaters in NYC will be able to reopen on March 5th. That's just two weeks shy of one full year since they were closed down due to the pandemic. Seating will be at 25% capacity or 50 people in the room, whichever is less. But will that be enough to convince people to gather in indoor spaces again? If theaters have reopened in your town have you been back? Or are you waiting for the vaccine? Or do you have some other marker by which you'll venture out again? Do tell in the comments.
I'm sure I would feel safe once I get the vaccine but I dont qualify. Not the right age. Not an essential worker -- movie-blogging doesn't count, alas. (Here's what qualifies you in NYC if you're here and curious. If you're elsewhere your state or city probably has a similar page and you should definitely check. I have a friend who has asthma, for example, and he didn't realize he qualified but now he's scheduling his vaccination.)