An Alamo Drafthouse opened up near us not too long ago. We got the monthly membership where tickets are basically free because all they really want is to sell you food and beer. Been going to movies more often than ever over the last year.
Fairly new Alamo Drafthouse Boston. Can walk from the big transit hub or the special bus line that's underground, will drop you right near the front door.
Beer options are respectable and I enjoy the full liquor options.
Popcorn! OMG! The stuff is tossed in clarified butter and served in a big tin bowl....YES!... Free refills. I will not confess how much I ate in a single movie.
There’s the Coolidge (green line is a bit of a pain) and Somerville Theater (right off the redline in Davis square).
The Brattle is also really good for rare, arthouse films and it’s a rear projection screen which is kinda novel now.
I haven’t been to the Drafhouse, but see no reason to, especially now that it’s owned by Sony.
I've been to Coolidge. I'll find something to revisit to check out the remodel/expansion.
I'll take the beer delivered to my seat over other choices no matter who owns the Alamo.
In the UK, I would say The Light cinemas. The one near us has everything that you want including good seating and a really good fast food restaurant all at a reasonable price.
In LA, I would have said the Cineramadome, but they closed during pandemic. We've still got Egyptian, Aero, and Nuart though.
There is a Cinemark about an hour away that is my go-to.
Are there closer theaters? Oh God yes. Do those theaters serve one of my favorite beers, have employees that will satisfy my request to try to kill me with butter on my popcorn, have reserved seating, and have power reclining seats? Also yes. What makes that hour drive worth it is that there is maybe 4 other people in the theater for a new release at noon. I can get buzzed in the trailers and sober up during the movie eating extra buttery popcorn while lounging in center middle seats and nobody to bother me with their inconsiderations. It is glorious.
Way back in the day it used to be Cinema City in Norwich: the only art-house one in the city and where I 'learnt' cinema. It was great.
These days, I live between three small town cinemas in Suffolk, and they are all good in their own ways.
The Riverside in Woodbridge often has a talk about the film or maybe even an interview with the director or one of the cast etc on stage afterwards. Aldeburgh Cinema is run by a charity, shows a good few NT live events and local films and also has a documentary fest each year, and Leiston Film Theatre is, as they say on their site, the oldest purpose built cinema in the county (110 years now), and had the advantage for a while of being about 150m from our back gate. It is the most commercial of three in terms of programme, but still has some interesting stuff.
Within 15 minutes Drive I have:
- A local community-run cinema that has been restored to it's art deco glory
- A multiplex
20-25 minutes away I have:
- A central cinema in the same chain that has an IMAX screen and tends to show more obscure and foreign-language films (rule of thumb seems to be they are the ones screening Chinese and Korean films, it's 50:50 on whether my closer one does Indian films)
- A cinema from a different chain, so if the above aren't showing it I may be able to find it there.
So if I want something niche, I may have to shop around but I can usually find it.
Thanks for asking, Fed!
It's Cinemark 17, 2900 Gateway St., Springfield, OR, 97477
Just 614 m from my house!
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Alamo
The West theater in Duluth MN.
We have an Imax elsewhere in town but The West is a single screen theater owned by a local couple who wanted their old neighborhood cinema back.
I don't go to the movies often, but I always try to go there. And it's the closest to my house too.
