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FreshAirCinema outdoor movie events

_Where the great actors of our time meet the great outdoors

 

    

Jacey Gibb
opinions editor

fter much delay and several

rainy weeks later, it seems

the sun has broken through
the eternal overcast hovering over
Vancouver and summer is finally a
go! And what better way to celebrate
clear skies and the warm evenings than
finding a patch of the greenest grass you
can find and curling up to an old (or
new) favourite popcorn flick!

Throughout the remainder of

summer, all over the Lower Mainland

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outdoor movie events will be

popping up worse than teenage acne.
FreshAirCinema is the organization
putting on these stellar events and it’s
their inflatable screens that provide you
with the viewing pleasure. Though it
hasn’t been for a lack of trying, I have
never made it out to a drive-in movie
theatre and until I miraculously inherit
some long lost dead uncle’s fortune

to cover the price of gas, these will
have to do. The events even have the
usual cinema-related goodies for sale
at nearby tents for cheaper than your
usual cinema-prices, but there’s no one
stopping you from making your own
popcorn at home and bringing it along

too!

One of the most admirable things
about these events is the diversity
that exists in the films being shown. I
challenge any of you to take a look at
the schedule for August and tell me there
isn’t at least one title you would like to
see. Ghostbusters, Jaws, The Goonies,
E.T., Rio, The Muppets Movie and even
Never Say Never (hey, they can’t all be
good!) are just a few of the films coming
to a park near you. For more information

on what ones are playing where, mosey |

on over to their Facebook page and
check out their Events listings.

The movies are all scheduled to
start as soon as it gets dark enough,

 

which usually lands around nine o’clock.
If you’re feeling ambitious and crave
good seating real estate, try and make
it out an hour or so early. However, be
warned that Vancity has a wonderful
(bland) and informative (repetitive and
probably irrelevant to your age group)
demonstration before each screening
which lasts between five or ten minutes,
depending on your sense of time. Keep
in mind too that these are family events
so if you’re looking for a park to crack
a six pack and talk obnoxiously till the
PBR’s come home, this might not be the
evening plans for you.

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