Brian Baxter (Letters, 24 August) should quit moaning and consider himself lucky to have “20-plus screens within a five-mile radius” of his home.
Here in Chester, we have had precisely zero screens within a five-mile radius for the last five years (since the out-of-town multiplex closed) and have been without a city centre cinema for over 10 years. If the Cheshire Oaks Outlet Village (our nearest multiplex, six miles to the north) is not to your taste, there is Wrexham (13 miles south) or Mold (15 west), but if you’re going to shell out on public transport you might as well go to Liverpool, where there’s a decent arthouse cinema. We are getting a new arts centre at long last next year, but the fact that the council called it Storyhouse doesn’t exactly fill me with hope. Might be a hit with the under-10s, though…
Tim Barlow
Chester
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Here in Chester, we have had precisely zero screens within a five-mile radius for the last five years (since the out-of-town multiplex closed) and have been without a city centre cinema for over 10 years. If the Cheshire Oaks Outlet Village (our nearest multiplex, six miles to the north) is not to your taste, there is Wrexham (13 miles south) or Mold (15 west), but if you’re going to shell out on public transport you might as well go to Liverpool, where there’s a decent arthouse cinema. We are getting a new arts centre at long last next year, but the fact that the council called it Storyhouse doesn’t exactly fill me with hope. Might be a hit with the under-10s, though…
Tim Barlow
Chester
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- 9/1/2016
- by Letters
- The Guardian - Film News
I’m thinking of giving up the Guardian on Fridays. It’s too depressing. Peter Bradshaw and his colleagues regularly review up to a dozen new movies of which only the dregs appear on any of the 20-plus screens within a five-mile radius of my home – this week a one-star comedy, a two-star horror movie and a domestic satire. One complex boasts 15 screens including five “studios”, comfortable 70-100 seater venues, one of which might profitably screen the reissued Barry Lyndon or this week’s intriguing-sounding The Childhood of a Leader. Instead, a new blockbuster will show up to eight times a day to often empty houses. My alternative? A cinematic drought or a long haul to Southampton or Chichester. Bradshaw and co do a good job, but exhibitors simply don’t follow through.
Brian Baxter
Bournemouth, Dorset
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Brian Baxter
Bournemouth, Dorset
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- 8/23/2016
- by Letters
- The Guardian - Film News
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