Commentary: Here's what I miss about going to the movies. And why I think they'll be back
As a place to gather before the fire of someone's imagination, to watch and listen with strangers and friends, movie theaters feel pretty shaky right now.
My neighborhood movie house in Chicago, the Logan Theatre, closed in March, along with the rest of everything. Three words appeared on its marquee in early spring: STAY STRONG LOGAN.
A couple of months later, a new message reassured the regulars and the visitors along North Milwaukee Avenue: TEMPORARILY CLOSED. MORE MOVIE MAGIC TO COME.
A month ago, Warner Brothers gambled and released Christopher Nolan's "Tenet" all over the world, albeit on different pandemic timetables. The film has done well in countries where the governments took care of the business of saving lives, and managed to reopen their economies in relative safety. And there endeth the political portion of this commentary.
The Logan's screens, like so
