Commentary: How the coronavirus will change going to the movies and more

I started the week as if things weren't so different, yet.

Monday, before the kids were awake, I wrote about an excellent new Kelly Reichardt film opening today, "First Cow," which you should see at some point. On Monday Reichardt hadn't yet canceled her travel plans to promote her film in Chicago, because of coronavirus concerns. They are our national concerns now. Once it got to Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson, people took it seriously.

I caught a 2:30 p.m. matinee of "West Side Story" at the Music Box Theatre, part of the theater's sixth 70 Millimeter Film Festival. The crowd was older. I shook hands with one of the employees, then immediately thought twice about the wisdom of the handshake. That same day Donald Trump said of the coronavirus: "It's not our country's fault."

Tuesday night at the IMAX Navy Pier theater: Vin Diesel, "Bloodshot." Half-full. Later