After more than a year of uncertainty and ever-fluctuating release schedules, there will be a summer movie season. The blockbusters are back.
The smell of popcorn is in the air. Summer movies have always been stuffed with calamity and cataclysm, but this year, the existential threat is also off-screen.
The pandemic has brought extensive changes for the movies, which have clung to life the last 14 months mainly on small screens.
Can moviegoing be resuscitated? This summer will be a profound test of survival, and not just for Vin Diesel. But, for us at least, absence has only made our moviegoing hearts grow fonder.