Danny Baldwin Rambles

Is repertory programming actually the best shot suburban single-screens and smaller multiplexes have at surviving?

As first-run moviegoing continues to be dominated by tentpoles best seen on the most cutting-edge screen possible, older films seem to be making a real…

Apr 10, 2024 • Danny Baldwin

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March 2024

Five Lessons for Hollywood from MLB Spring Training

A fervent fan of both reconciles why peanuts and Cracker Jacks seem to be selling so much better than popcorn at the moment

Mar 26, 2024 • Danny Baldwin

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Danny Baldwin's Top 10 Films of 2023

In advance of this weekend's Oscar ceremony, I share some final thoughts on the year in cinema and my personal favorites of 2023...

Mar 7, 2024 • Danny Baldwin

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January 2024

Is theatrical moviegoing the last, best hope we have for preserving our attention spans?

The multiplex is the only major public space left that expressly forbids mobile device usage, even as adherence is another story

Jan 3, 2024 • Danny Baldwin

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December 2023

Alone at the Movies in 2023

Theorizing How to Keep Theatrical Moviegoing Alive from the Confines of Empty Auditoriums

Dec 19, 2023 • Danny Baldwin

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May 2023

My new project: White Guy Watches Bollywood

If American critics are just going to continue to ignore Indian films aimed exclusively at the diaspora, then I'm going to be the one to review them.

May 7, 2023 • Danny Baldwin

April 2023

Reimagining the "dollar theater" in 2023

For all of the recent talk about the return of the exclusive theatrical window, why has no one mentioned a possible revival of "second run" cinemas?

Apr 20, 2023 • Danny Baldwin

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March 2023

3D is back. Should we finally figure out what to do with it?

AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER seems to have revived interest in the format, which has progressed technologically, but not necessarily philosophically

Mar 14, 2023 • Danny Baldwin

February 2023

Scarcity is cool again

How a Sunday matinee of MEMORIA in Long Beach restored my hope for younger theatrical arthouse audiences

Feb 28, 2023 • Danny Baldwin

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Tiered movie ticket pricing isn’t “undemocratic,” but it is a royal pain in the ass

The outcries about AMC’s new “Preferred Sightline” pricing have largely focused on a perceived threat to the egalitarian nature of moviegoing, when in…

Feb 9, 2023 • Danny Baldwin

The latest cinema projector isn't a projector at all

Notes from my first experience watching a movie via Samsung Onyx, the "LED Wall" that displays movies instead of a projector at Amazon's Culver City…

Feb 6, 2023 • Danny Baldwin

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