15 Questions With Marshall Shaffer

"If you want to breed a new generation of moviegoers, you have to embrace the movie palace mentality."

Name: Marshall Shaffer
Location: New York City
Occupation: Freelance Film Critic
Links: Marshall’s Substack, Instagram, TikTok

1. What’s your favorite day & time to go to the movies?

I joke with friends in a self-consciously blasé way that, now, if I don’t see something at a press screening, then I won’t see it until streaming. I’ve gotten very spoiled by letting many hard-working NYC film publicists dictate my social schedule by letting me know when to slot in the newest releases! The more truthful answer is “whenever I can squeeze it in” or “whenever that one screening happens to be available.” But if I were planning a movie outing with friends and I had my pick of day/time, it’d be a late Saturday matinee — 4:45 sounds perfect to me. You bring a full day with you to the theater, and you still have time ahead … ideally, to grab drinks and/or dinner after to digest what you just watched.

2. What’s your favorite movie theater?

I’m cheating a little bit here because it’s only a movie theate…