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Rarely a week goes by these days without someone proclaiming movies dead or dying or zombified and feasting on the brains of their victims. (That’s what you get for turning your brain off at the theater!) Mainstream Hollywood has seen better days, but film as an art form is just fine; in a world where Moonlight, The Handmaiden, Arrival, and Loving are all competing for screen space, there’s still life left in movies yet. I’m more concerned about movie theaters, where the presentation of those films seems to get worse every single year.

Earlier today it was announced that Sony will release ‘The Interview’ in select theaters and on VOD this Christmas Day after all. Following the massive hacker attack on the company and subsequent terrorist threats from the group known as Guardians of Peace, Sony had no choice but to cancel the film’s release after major theater chains decided not to show the film. In a wonderful turn of events, following a petition from Art House Convergence, which was signed by many independent exhibitors, Sony is moving forward with the release. We have the full list of theaters that will screen the film this Thursday.

Three cheers for The Alamo Drafthouse theater in Dallas-Fort Worth. Management announced yesterday via Twitter a replacement film to be shown in place on the now-canceled "The Interview": FOR THE RECORD: We were still going to show #TheInterviewMovie… — Alamo Drafthouse DFW (@AlamoDFW) December 17, 2014   …but now we'll be showing TEAM AMERICA in it's place…for FREE(DOM). Bec... Read Mor