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Movie chain AMC Theatres offers its loyalty club members half-price tickets on Tuesdays. In July, the company will add Wednesdays as a half-price day.
The Cinemark movie chain also offers half-price on Tuesdays.
Neither has locations in the area.
But, local movie chain Malco Theatres does, too, offer half-price movies on Tuesdays.
Despite Tuesdays reigning supreme as a day for discounts, another choice day for moviegoing is emerging in Memphis.
In his “Memphis Movies” column this week, Chris Herrington asks, “Who decided Thursday is movie night?”
Crosstown Arts’ Crosstown Film Series offers an offbeat movie screening on Thursdays. The ticket price is $5, at the door only, with the films starting at 7 p.m. sharp.
 People mingle and wait in line for tickets before the start of “They Live,” a film featured by the Crosstown Arts Film Series, at the Crosstown Theater on Thursday, May 29. (Brad Vest/Special to The Daily Memphian)
This week, the series screened John Carpenter’s 1988 cult classic “They Live.”
Up next week? A screening of “The Terminator” with a live score by the Memphis Concrète Scrap Metal Orchestra. That screening is part of the Memphis Concrète, an annual experimental electronic music festival. (It’s $10 per ticket for this one.)
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As part of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month Memphis, the National Civil Rights Museum hosted a sold-out screening and discussion of the documentary “Bluff City Chinese” on Thursday.
As Herrington notes, the Overton Square Movie Series, which is on Thursdays, screened “Barbie.”
And, as Kelsey Bowen details in her story, “Superbad” screened at the Pink Palace on Thursday as part of the new Slowdown Cinema Club film series. The series will recur on upcoming Thursdays each month.
For more on local film news, North Mississippi reporter Brandon LaGrone II talked to the organizer of a new series for independent film called Indie Spotlight: Film & Conversation.
It kicks off Saturday, June 21, at Malco DeSoto Cinema Grill with a screening of Southaven-based director and writer Jaron Lockridge’s crime thriller “Cubic Zirconia.”
Suburbs Editor Clay Bailey reminisced about the days of drive-ins in the city. In the column, he takes a look at what currently occupies the Bellevue, Frayser, Jaxon, Lamar and Sky-Vue drive-in sites, with some photos included (and a map).
Do you have Memphis drive-in memories? Leave a comment below.
Lastly, not film, but TV-related news of note.
Business reporter Sophia Surrett was there for “A Different World” actors Dawnn Lewis and Jasmine Guy’s conversation at a recent Habitat for Humanity of Greater Memphis’ Women Build Luncheon.
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