The Mother Brain Files: NY Boutique Theater Special Part 1

While Hollywood continues to produce event films with big budgets and featuring star caliber actors, the audiences they try to appeal to have become increasingly frustrated with the experience of going to the movies. High ticket and concession prices at major multiplexes owned by anything like Loews and AMC play a major factor in the problem. Even when there are movies with high public interest that are worth shelling out the extra fees, however, the combination of noisy kids, crying babies, cell phone disruptions, and one too many advertisements before the feature presentation that force most audiences to stay home and stream their movies right at their own fingertips.