Tape Night.
Tonight at the Sidewalk Cinema (the best movie theater in my area and, not coincidentally, the only indie movie theater in my area), my pal Jeremy is having a Tape Night event. Jeremy and Sidewalk host Tape Night a few times a year. As you might guess from the name, it involves projecting a movie from an honest-to-goodness VHS tape on the big screen. Now, VHS is not known for it’s visual clarity. In fact, it’s known for being generally low-res and muddy. But VHS movies look surprisingly good on the Sidewalk Cinema screen. And part of the fun is the retro nostalgia of watching a movie the way we watched so many movies back in the 20th century. Another part of the fun is the actual movie featured at Tape Night is a surprise. But Jeremy usually drops a few hints. For tonight’s screening, the hints are that the featured movie was shot in Alabama and released in 1976. Given that there aren’t a lot of movies shot in Alabama, those are really big hints! I am pretty sure I know what...