The big movies of the year, Barbie, Oppenheimer, Mission Impossible are out now (or soon) and the BBC has teamed up with the Open University in the UK to advocate seeing these films in the cinema.
The essential argument is that we are social creatures and it’s far better for us to be with other people even if they are loudly scraping popcorn out of a box. It is good for the body and the soul.
Sarah McMullan is familiar to the RNZ audience. She watches a lot of films and writes about some of them.