A review by bobkat
A Year at the Movies: One Man's Filmgoing Odyssey by Kevin Murphy

3.0

I was hoping this would be all movie reviews and sort of the movie version of Nick Hornby's awesome reading journal compilations [b:The Polysyllabic Spree|4260|The Polysyllabic Spree|Nick Hornby|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165403935s/4260.jpg|2961810], [b:Housekeeping Vs. The Dirt|4259|Housekeeping vs. The Dirt|Nick Hornby|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165403928s/4259.jpg|7949] and [b:Shakespeare Wrote for Money|4457297|Shakespeare Wrote for Money|Nick Hornby|http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51cn-PbmuQL._SL75_.jpg|4505545]. Instead, Murphy tackles various themes of the moviegoing experience, e.g., extreme theaters, independent theaters, seeing the same movie at different theaters, theaters that serve food, etc, each week, and writes a short essay on each. It's not some revealing academic anthropology text, but it's moderately interesting and occasionally funny -- and there are some good reviews in there to boot.

4/16/09 - This book didn't make the cut to be kept -- going to sell.