How Smartphones Ruined the Dollar Movie

Photo by Rami Al-zayat on Unsplash

Oh, how I used to love the Dollar Movie.

When I was a kid, the Dollar Movie meant one of two places: The Cinemark over by the local evangelical university, mascotted by Front Row Joe any day of the week, or The Fort a little farther out of the way on Tuesdays and Sundays only.

My friends and I, or my brother and I, or the whole fam-damily and I would head to either of…