Moviegoing

Please, please read this excellent piece by Cary Tennis in Salon who writes the best advice column ever called The Moviegoing Voter

Hullabaloo 2003

Please, please read this excellent piece by Cary Tennis in Salon who writes the best advice column ever called The Moviegoing Voter

Hullabaloo 2003

And the surreal juxtaposition—a silent minute followed by almost two hours of pounding drama—reminded me how special the film-festival experience can be: Moviegoing stripped of impatience, audiences not just willing but eager to bear with movies that demand some bearing with, so long as they deliver something good in return.

At Film Fest, Drugs, Dunst and Dazzle Joe Morgenstern 2011

Moviegoing today is a completely disposable experience; the only question a reviewer is supposed to answer is whether a movie lives up to its hype.

What She Found in the Dark Lee Sandlin 2011

Moviegoing, that consummate group activity, had suddenly become weirdly private.

My Year of Flops Nathan Rabin 2010

Moviegoing is simultaneously a communal and anonymous endeavor.

My Year of Flops Nathan Rabin 2010

Moviegoing is not a panacea, but it's a hell of a multivitamin.

When Bad Times Make Good Movies 2009

The point: Moviegoing, though unlikely to disappear, will probably never again be the universal rite it once was.

GreenCine Daily: Weekend shorts. 2007

Moviegoing tastes have dumbed down to the point where putting a film of this type into the plexes would be seen as borderline suicidal.

Jeffrey Wells: HBO's Recount Rave 2008

Moviegoing has always been thought of as a recession-proof activity, just as the movie business has always been called a recession-proof industry.

Christopher Campbell's The Moviegoer - Our Economic Crisis « FirstShowing.net 2008