15 Questions With Matthew Huff

"i’d like more movie theater merch - tell me you don’t want a tasteful AMC Kips Bay crewneck!"

Name: Matthew Huff
Location: NYC
Occupation: Associate Entertainment Editor at Parade Magazine
Links: Matthew’s writing, IG

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

Growing up, my family always went to the earliest weekend matinee available for budgetary reasons, and so I rarely entered a movie theater in the evening until I was an adult. Due to that conditioning, whatever the first Saturday/Sunday screening is ideal. The theater is usually dead, I can sneak in a bagel and coffee, I’m not one bit tired. Dare I say a 9am screening if possible? 

2. What’s your favorite movie theater?

While I do think that the Battery Park Regal is the objectively correct choice in NYC, I’ve gotta stump for the Village East:

1. It’s a quirky cinema which befits New York. I mean the biggest theater is basically the balcony seating of an old Yiddish playhouse from 1925.

2. My first year covering Tribeca, all the press screenings were there and I felt like a real journalist for the first time so I …