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AUGUST 31, 2020
We’re Going Back to the Movies
It’s a strange thing to see a major motion picture at a multiplex in the midst of a pandemic—as Richard Lawson discovered when, on a trip to Massachusetts, he journeyed to the AMC on the Boston Common to take in an entirely empty screening of The New Mutants. The lobby, he writes, “was devoid of people, save for a friendly security guard and an equally friendly woman behind plexiglass—there to give masks to customers who needed one. But there were no customers to give them to. I rode the escalator up to a huge hallway humming with air conditioner noise and nothing else and trekked across the sea of carpet to the cavernous screening room 18, where I shifted toward the center of row G, a few seats away from the one I’d reserved—still feeling a spasm of muscle memory guilt, despite being the only person there.” The film itself wasn’t much to write home about, says Lawson—but the uncanny unease of going to a movie theater right now was.
Elsewhere in HWD, John Oliver unleashes a particularly fiery tirade against the RNC, the Kenosha shooter, and Tucker Carlson; we catalog the most notable looks from the 2020 VMAs; Chloe and Halle Bailey open up about virtual performances and their new album; and Anthony Breznicanremembers Chadwick Boseman, whose sudden death shocked Hollywood this weekend.
Elsewhere in HWD, John Oliver unleashes a particularly fiery tirade against the RNC, the Kenosha shooter, and Tucker Carlson; we catalog the most notable looks from the 2020 VMAs; Chloe and Halle Bailey open up about virtual performances and their new album; and Anthony Breznicanremembers Chadwick Boseman, whose sudden death shocked Hollywood this weekend.
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