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I’m thinking of giving up the Guardian on Fridays. It’s too depressing. Peter Bradshaw and his colleagues regularly review up to a dozen new movies of which only the dregs appear on any of the 20-plus screens within a five-mile radius of my home – this week a one-star comedy, a two-star horror movie and a domestic satire. One complex boasts 15 screens including five “studios”, comfortable 70-100 seater venues, one of which might profitably screen the reissued Barry Lyndon or this week’s intriguing-sounding The Childhood of a Leader. Instead, a new blockbuster will show up to eight times a day to often empty houses. My alternative? A cinematic drought or a long haul to Southampton or Chichester. Bradshaw and co do a good job, but exhibitors simply don’t follow through.Brian BaxterBournemouth, Hampshire I’m thinking of giving up the Guardian on Fridays. It’s too depressing. Peter Bradshaw and his colleagues regularly review up to a dozen new movies of which only the dregs appear on any of the 20-plus screens within a five-mile radius of my home – this week a one-star comedy, a two-star horror movie and a domestic satire. One complex boasts 15 screens including five “studios”, comfortable 70-100 seater venues, one of which might profitably screen the reissued Barry Lyndon or this week’s intriguing-sounding The Childhood of a Leader. Instead, a new blockbuster will show up to eight times a day to often empty houses. My alternative? A cinematic drought or a long haul to Southampton or Chichester. Bradshaw and co do a good job, but exhibitors simply don’t follow through.Brian BaxterBournemouth, Dorset
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• The address on the letter above was amended on 24 August 2016. A change made during the editing process meant that an earlier version placed Bournemouth in Hampshire; it was until 1974, but it is now in Dorset.