Movie Theater Diaries #5: Los Feliz 3, Burbank 16 and... The Grove.
It is too damn hot in LA.
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4:30pm Sunday, Splitsville dir. Michael Angelo Covino, AMC at The Grove
Going on my 8th year of living in Los Angeles, I try to avoid being in situations that could lead me to The Grove. If you’ve never been, The Grove is an outdoor shopping mall in West Hollywood that was once a cute tourist destination/pleasant afternoon, currently somewhere you only need to be if you’re attending one of the endless makeup brand pop-ups or hoping to run into a Love Island USA contestant. What’s unfortunate is the AMC theater at The Grove is pretty good, so I do begrudgingly find myself there when there’s no alternative available.
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I went to see Splitsville because Caught Stealing wasn’t out yet and I was in the mood to see something. My friend Cherilyn met me there and we tried to get Einspanner coffees to sneak into the movie but there was a downright offensive line at the cafe that makes them. Which begs the question, why aren’t trendy LA cafes doing pop-ups at movie theaters? More on this later.
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