I know I’ve mentioned Chicago’s Music Box Theatre many, many times here on the Krypt. The main reason is because it has given audiences some amazing experiences over the years and is a theater that I’ve been attending for about 30 years. From some incredible midnight screenings, film festivals, premieres with special guests, to their 24-hour marathons that they’ve been presenting for 20 years, they continue to give audiences truly great cinematic experiences. And now, they will be able to add even more to that.

For as long as I can remember, they have always had the two screens, the larger 700-seat theater and the much smaller 70-seat theater. But coming next year, they will have a third theater auditorium with 115 seats. Now, that may not seem like a big expansion but understand that it allows the theater to help screen and promote more of what they have been doing over the last decade or so. They obviously screen some first run titles, sometimes even in 35mm, like they did last year with Robert Eggers Nosferatu, but they also run a lot of independent and unique films that might not have the chance to screen at most cineplexes and national chains. With all the different film series they have, giving cinephiles a chance to see films they missed decades ago, like the recent Gene Hackman series, or newer titles that might not ever had the chance to hit the regular larger cineplexes.