Free movies are so bomb.
Seeing movies for free is quickly becoming one of my favorite things to do in the desert. In fact, I've already seen two free films in the past two days alone.
On Thursday, I met up with some folks from church at the Palm Springs Art Museum, which always offers free admission on Thursday afternoons/evenings. But this past Thursday they also started free screenings of movies from the Global Lens 2009 foreign film series. This week's film was Getting Home, which I found pretty amusing and heartwarming... and it also made me really want to go on a road trip.
Then tonight, I went and saw Child's Play — i.e., the first Chucky movie — at the IMAX theater in Cathedral City because I saw on their marquee as I drove past today that they'd be showing a free scary movie tonight at 10.
Now, I may regret tonight's movie decision tomorrow morning after I wake up from whatever nightmares good ol' Chucky might give me, but right now I still consider it an epically good choice. The movie was really good, and for some reason I had never seen it before.
Now if you too want to get in on this free-movies-in-the-desert biz, both of the places where I saw free flicks over the past two days have more free film coming up on Saturday and Sunday.
The Desert IMAX Theatre will be showing a scary movie again Saturday at 10 p.m., and from the looks of Fandango, it'll probably be Child's Play again.
Then, on Sunday, the art museum is having yet another free-admission day and is showing a black-and-white silent film from 2002 (Yep, from this century.) at 11 a.m.
I can't make it to either of those two movies on account of work on Saturday and church on Sunday, but I encourage anybody who's around the Coachella Valley this weekend to take advantage of these gloriously free screenings.