Sorry Movie Theaters, I'm Never Going Back

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June 27, 2022

The world is pretty well turning to something closely resembling normal, and one of the chief signs of that is movies. For a while there you could see all the latest and greatest movies without going to a theater—you could just stream them.

But now theaters are up and running again, and movies aren’t skipping straight to streaming as an option. And you know what? No. I’m not doing it. I’m not going back to the movie theater. I don’t have to. I’ll tell you how and why in the top story.

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