I’m in between movie releases, so I didn’t see anything new this week. Sorry.

Although…I did have some free time, so I wandered around this old theater and found some potential spiders to track down. Next time I volunteer there I’m bringing my camera to find some spiders in the old dusty parts of the building.

I’ll be very brief today — I didn’t see a movie. I was volunteering at the theater last night, but we’re at the end of our run of Supergirl, and Minions&Monsters is still going strong, so I just did my job and didn’t pay any attention to the movie. Starting tonight, we’re playing Moana, the live action version of the animated Disney movie, which I have no interest in seeing. Disney’s live-action rehashes of their old movies are never very good and suffer in comparison with the originals, so why bother?

Minions&Monsters was a big win for the theater, even on a Thursday night it brought in lots of families and lots of money for the Morris Theater Co-op. Supergirl was kind of a dud. Family movies are pretty profitable for us, and Minions seems to draw in lots of kids and their parents. I’ll be interested to see if Moana has similar appeal.

Unfortunately for me, it was so busy that I had to serve on concessions, and discovered that I don’t really know how to us a cash register. For a while, I was the bottleneck and was slowing the flow until a more practiced person took over. In addition to being slow, I made mistakes.

At the end of the movie, one person came up to me and said she was pretty sure I undercharged her, and she had me add up a few of her purchases, and she was right — I came up $9 short. So she paid me on the spot! Minnesota nice sometimes actually means nice.

OK, that’s all. I do want to mention that we’re participating in the “Better Together Film Festival”, and on Wednesday, 22 July at 7pm, we’ll be showing a free movie, The [Conserv]atives, highlighting Republicans who are bucking against the general awfulness of the Republican party to support action on climate issues.

From their information…

From summer 2021 through Donald Trump’s re-election
campaign, four Republican insiders wage an uphill battle to transform their party’s stance on
climate change from within. A young grassroots organizer, a big-city mayor, an Iowa farmer, and
an evangelical pastor — each embedded in different corners of the conservative ecosystem —
risk alienation from their own communities as they attempt to reframe climate action as a
conservative value.
As extreme weather intensifies and the 2024 election approaches, they confront a political
machine built on denial, testing whether personal conviction can overcome tribal loyalty. This is
a deeply personal story about the cost of defying your own side and the haunting question that
drives them all: will their efforts be enough before time runs out?

I’ll probably attend that one.