Filmy Residue: January, 31 Days = 31 Shows

This January, I saw 26 movies, 3 of them documentaries, plus 5 shorts. The first was on Netflix, and the rest were in various theatres: Vancity - 8, Cinematheque - 5 +3 shorts, The Rio - 5, International Village - 3 +1 short, and Scotiabank - 3.

My favourite movie this month was Cabaret.

I see most of my flicks at Vancity and The Cinematheque because it's free for me, plus they have great programming, but I will go to any theatre if they're showing something I want to see. The Rio is fun, and has a very casual laid back atmosphere. They have the best late night retro programming on Fridays, not to forget affordable cheap date movies on Mondays and Tuesdays. I appreciate their creative drink menus and grown up boozy food combos, plus there's a grilled cheese option. International Village has more art house programming, and I like their new drink machine - so many pop flavours you could try! Some of the theatres there are small, but they also have quite a few seats with armrests that lift up to make cozy twosomes. The best screen, aside from IMAX, is at Scotiabank though. The main AVX theatre there, is massive with spectacular sound. I love love love seeing movies there, just the hugeness and rumble sound at the start of their feature presentation trailer is enough to get me grinning. I didn't see anything at Metropolis, or 5th Avenue this month, but I like them too. 5th Avenue tends towards showing indie/arty stuff and Metropolis has AVX too, but it's their DBOX seats that makes it worth the trip for the blockbuster shows. Once in a while I'll make it out to Landmark's cinemas in New West or North Van. And I like seeing movies at SFU Woodwards too. Cinematheque has the best popcorn though. Real Butter!!! Plus they have so many things to sprinkle additional flavour on your corn. I'm a fan of blending yeast, spike and Valentina hot sauce.

Trailers for everything I saw, except 3 of the shorts.

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