You know how it is. You reach a certain age, you settle down, you get house/kids/a partner/delete as appropriate. Suddenly, going to the cinema no longer seems like a great way to spend an evening, particularly when you have Sky/Virgin/DVDs/an Apple TV and you hate the popcorn-munching, mobile-phone braying, constantly narrating audiences of the local multiplex.
So today’s simple meme of self-awareness is:
What was the last movie you actually saw in the cinema and why?
As always, leave a comment with your answer or a link to your answer on your own blog.
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I’m Rob Buckley, a journalist who writes for UK media magazines that most people have never heard of although you might have heard me on the podcast Lockdown Land or Radio 5 Live’s Saturday Edition or Afternoon Edition. I’ve edited Dreamwatch, Sprocket and Cambridge Film Festival Daily; been technical editor for TV producers magazine Televisual; reviewed films for the short-lived newspaper Cambridge Insider; written features for the even shorter-lived newspaper Soho Independent; and was regularly sarcastic about television on the blink-and-you-missed-it “web site for urban hedonists” The Tribe. Since going freelance, I've contributed to the likes of Broadcast, Total Content + Media, Action TV, Off The Telly, Action Network, TV Scoop and The Custard TV.
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