In 2014, the University Mall Theatres, a second-run cinema in my town, created a Kickstarter campaign to fund the purchase of new theater seating.
Donors who gave $250 would get their names engraved on a seat, as lasting testament to their generosity. What’s more, they would also receive a pass which guaranteed them free movie admissions…for all of 2015.
The double whammy of free movies and carving my name in a public place was too much to resist.
Here I’ll be keeping a list of every film I see at the theater during my “Year of Free Movies.” As long as I see 63 films over the course of the year, I’ll get my money’s worth.
Wish me luck.
(Some titles will link to longer reviews, if I end up writing them.)
#1. Fury
#2. Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good Very Bad Day
#3. Gone Girl
#4. Penguins of Madagascar
#5. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1
#6. Big Hero 6
#7. Annie
#8. Into the Woods
#9. Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb
#10. Interstellar
#11. The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
#12. Unbroken
#13. The Imitation Game
#14. Paddington
#15. The DUFF
#16. Fifty Shades of Grey
#17. The Spongebob Movie: Sponge Out of Water
#18. CHAPPiE
#19. Focus
#20. McFarland, USA
#21. American Sniper
#22. Selma
#23. Kingsman: The Secret Service
#24. Cinderella
#25. The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
#26. Get Hard
#27. The Divergent Series: Insurgent
#28. Furious Seven
#29. Monkey Kingdom
#30. Home
#31. Paul Blart Mall Cop 2
#32. Avengers: Age of Ultron
#33. Ex Machina
#34. Aloha
#35. Pitch Perfect 2
#36. Mad Max: Fury Road
#37. Spy
#38. Max
#39. San Andreas
#40. Jurassic World
#41. Terminator: Genisys
#42. Pixels
#43. Vacation
#44. Ant-Man
#45. Straight Outta Compton
#46. Inside Out
#47. Trainwreck
#48. Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation
#49. Minions
#50. Shaun the Sheep Movie
#51. Repo! The Genetic Opera
#52. Black Mass
#53. The Visit
#54. Everest
#55. The Walk
#56. Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials
#57. Sicario
#58. The Intern
#59. Hotel Transylvania 2
#60. Goosebumps
#61. Pan
#62. The Martian
#63. The Last Witch-Hunter
#64. The Night Before
#65. Bridge of Spies
***They extended some of the bonus coupons for another month***
#66. The Good Dinosaur