Comments from Joshua Bilmes

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Joshua Bilmes commented about Odeon Kensington on Mar 8, 2024 at 12:18 pm

they been building away! Added photo of what’s there now.

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Joshua Bilmes commented about Alamo Drafthouse Downtown Brooklyn on Jan 29, 2024 at 11:50 am

“ We’ll be closing our doors from 2/05 - 2/06 to kickstart a massive renovation, including premium leather recliners, upgraded projectors, more bathrooms, and a massive 5-auditorium expansion to give you more movies and more awesome events”

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Joshua Bilmes commented about Alamo Drafthouse Downtown Brooklyn on Jan 29, 2024 at 11:49 am

Two day closure on Feb 5 and 6 as part of what the email from Alamo says is a five screen expansion.

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Joshua Bilmes commented about AMC Orpheum 7 on Dec 17, 2023 at 10:57 pm

Yikes! My first visit here in over thirty years, and it is so rundown and neglected and feels ready to blow away in the next big storm. It is in some ways better than I remembered, because the eighties sloped floor multiplex auditoria (opened in early 1990s but design very much of the 1980s) with their aging squeaking seats and the aisles down the center do at least have decent size screens, and they were filling some seats on a slow December weekend, but Manhattan deserves better than for this rundown multiplex to be the only option north of 60th Street and East of Central Park.

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Joshua Bilmes commented about Regal Times Square on Dec 3, 2023 at 9:01 pm

added photo of the new 4DX in Screen 12. Not yet open but looks like it will be for the busy holiday season.

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Joshua Bilmes commented about Regal Times Square on Nov 27, 2023 at 8:47 pm

The new 4DX is coming along. Screen 12 is still closed, but a wall was removed since last visit and a Pepsi 4DX sign is visible at the entrance. I probably could’ve stepped over/around the rope and taken a peek inside on Sunday.

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Joshua Bilmes commented about Regal Times Square on Nov 24, 2023 at 10:32 pm

Visited for the first time in a while to see a movie on the RPX. Which is, per prior comment, now much better for wide screen, 21 of my paces across. Comfortable with wide seats and legroom and bigger screen than across the street, and I may choose this RPX over the Empire’s Dolby Cinema moving forward. But hardly anyone coming, 25 people here for first night of a movie that had much larger crowds across the street. The place is mostly open but also mostly a construction zone with almost all of the David Rockwell interior for the Loews days now destroyed. Concession stand a work in progress. Some screens which still have carpeting from the old days. Screen 12 was closed off.

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Joshua Bilmes commented about BTM Criterion Cinemas on Sep 27, 2023 at 11:47 am

https://www.newhavenindependent.org/article/bow_tie_movie_theater

closing in two weeks

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Joshua Bilmes commented about AMC Raceway 10 on Aug 11, 2023 at 2:55 pm

only showtimes for 8 screens on Saturday and Sunday. Any chance they’re doing refurbishment?

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Joshua Bilmes commented about Cinemart Cinemas on Aug 9, 2023 at 8:36 pm

Noticed a thank you to the owner of the theater in the end credits of Shortcomings. Anyone know if this was used for some of the “Berkeley” movie theatre scenes in the movie?

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Joshua Bilmes commented about AMC Garden State 16 on Jul 24, 2023 at 12:05 am

Right now more accurately a 15 screen, since the VR area built in the Theatre 1 space doesn’t appear to be a thing any more,

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Joshua Bilmes commented about AMC Garden State 16 on Jul 23, 2023 at 11:58 pm

So I guess I got to see markp in the booth when I did my Barbenheimer on Saturday. Glad there is still a 70mm screen in Paramus, which was the closest place for it to where I grew up. Couldn’t believe how immense the Dolby Cinema screen is for a flat movie. Fifty feet tall? Sixty? Huge.

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Joshua Bilmes commented about South Bay Cinemas on Jul 1, 2023 at 3:31 pm

Article in June 30 issue of Newsday said all sorts of permitting issues found during inspection, and reopening delayed indefinitely.

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Joshua Bilmes commented about Regal Times Square on Mar 17, 2023 at 3:00 pm

they still haven’t finished the RPX renovation. Considering how across the street everyone goes first to buy IMAX, Prime and Dolby tickets at the Empire, why don’t they want to finish their RPX renovation? They haven’t been selling 13 screens not in months but in years. I just clicked every Regal location in New Jersey as a decent sample size, and all of them have showings for dates after March 30. This is as close to going week by week as you can get.

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Joshua Bilmes commented about Regal Times Square on Mar 14, 2023 at 11:04 pm

There are no showtimes on sale after March 16. There were showtimes on sale for later dates just a few days ago. So…

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Joshua Bilmes commented about Cinema 1, 2 & 3 by Angelika on Feb 23, 2023 at 11:09 pm

The escalator to Cinema One was finally in use fkr 80 For Brady. It could have been running by the end of 2022 except that it took three or four months for the city to inspect after the actual work had been completed.

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Joshua Bilmes commented about Regal Union Square Stadium 17 on Jan 30, 2023 at 10:02 pm

is it closing? tickets still listed for sale many months from now, Is it possible that Regal filed to reject the lease in order to escape deferred rents from the pandemic, after which a new lease comes into effect?

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Joshua Bilmes commented about Regal Union Square Stadium 17 on Jan 19, 2023 at 10:43 pm

This used to be an in place to see a movie. I did a comment Dec 2021 that I didn’t see the appeal of coming here when the close by AMCs had nice recliners, and when I occasionally checked the seating availability for movies opening here and Lincoln Square over the last several months did some double takes how few advance seats were being sold here vs for Lincoln Square. I am both surprised and not surprised that it is closing. Ironically, Regal website has showtimes for sale here well into the future while the eWalk only until March 2,

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Joshua Bilmes commented about Cinepolis Chelsea Cinemas on Jan 4, 2023 at 11:27 pm

Website announces that theatre is closing and that last day of business is January 8, 2023.

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Joshua Bilmes commented about Regal Times Square on Jan 4, 2023 at 4:48 pm

A Christmas miracle! Showtimes now up thru mid February.

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Joshua Bilmes commented about Regal Times Square on Dec 25, 2022 at 12:34 am

I was incorrect about December 29.

But, the RPX that has been under renovation for forever still hasn’t reopened. There is the court filing which allows for Regal to reject the lease as of January 15, https://www.reddit.com/r/RegalUnlimited/comments/yov0hh/new_list_of_leases_to_be_rejected_in_bankruptcy/ and as of now this is the only Regal in NYC not selling tickets after January 12. The event in March is no longer on sale.

There are some locations on that list where new lease terms must have been agreed. The Ballston Common and the Lincolnshire are on the PDF but have tickets on sale well into 2023. But the E-Walk is on that list, and ain’t got seats on sale after January 12. And 22 months since NYC movie houses reopened, box office is still way way down, and yet not a single Manhattan multiplex is going to be a casualty? There are 25 screens across the street, another dozen on 34th Street. If there is to be a casualty…

But I was wrong about Dec. 29, and who knows, maybe the landlord will reduce the rent by 75% or something in the next couple weeks.

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Joshua Bilmes commented about AMC Palm Promenade 24 on Nov 25, 2022 at 8:53 am

I am counting showtimes displaying today for twelve screens so it’s strange that it’s still called the 24 even on AMC’s website

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Joshua Bilmes commented about Regal Times Square on Nov 25, 2022 at 12:05 am

Looks like the last day of business for the Regal E-Walk will be December 29. Other Regal locations in the city have various showings for advance sale in January, but nothing to be found here.

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Joshua Bilmes commented about AMC Lincoln Square 13 on Nov 21, 2022 at 12:58 am

have now seen four movies here on four different screens since the introduction of the Laser by AMC projection and am impressed. The theaters actually seem dark when the movie is showing, thanks to richer deeper blacks that make me realize way more than the Dolby Cinema even what we missed in the transition to digital projection. This is also a location where I saw too many movies with a bulb that had passed its “best by” date, and in theory I shouldn’t have to worry about that with the new laser system. And, happy 28th birthday!

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Joshua Bilmes commented about Quad Cinema on Oct 9, 2022 at 11:07 pm

Just a few days shy of its 50th birthday.